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jrsss. - J. H. EST1L.L,
Savannah, Qa.
eves.
Sweet baby eyes,
. ej-cund with such a grave surprise,
what do yon sec ?
. u arid, where simplest things
M^rwiid imaginings
\nd fancies free?
. that is not home,
l TCSti 5f-..\vln , rein to roam
v • may be?
.a WOQ dering baby eyes,
L^mv-tery that in you lies
n»emo- Q tt j U //]es me.
Clear, boyish eyes,
, _'[.iEce unconsciously defies
e and care;
twhYhood i* past and gone,
^H«Vtbat you g^.e upon?
■- 1 y i a n<i most lair j
v shore with pleasure rife ;
v-i .‘rent, glorious gitt of life
i* d : - ;J " jianliss to sha*e.
v trusttu!, boyish eyes,
,r,J ' ’ CDV y. foolsdesp.se.
The taith you wear.
The anxious e3;e3
»-li 0 od. slewiy piercing earth’s di. guise,
l ' J i)i cover—what ?
:f>at js (juickly done,
hones fulfilled and wishes wen
^ Are dearly got;
. ^ 0W s on lsud in headlong haste,
fruit * 1C strove taste,
Delight him not.
..j. troubled eyes,
. to be wise
1? manhood’s lot.
Dim. aged eye?,
acr033 the w reck of broken ties,
'= ' Wimt do they fee ?
..i-dead leaves that withered fall,
lV j Berness where all
= Is vanity;
taeladd. n weary sight,
a •■romieC ot the bright
j sag e = L
Etc:
and tear!
ling till t'
files
i aged eyes,
it dawn shall rise,
ed are ye!
And angel eyes
re ti; •:r dwelling place beyond the skies,
Vainly do we
■ ci t o they must know,
the pearly gates aglow—
The crystal sea.
visions mortals paint
cclestia 1 couni ry, faint
Must ever be.
■e and holy angel eyes,
Init pray mat w hat you prize,
Cur own may see.
[Leisure Hour.
Affairs in Georgia.
A Mr. Holbrook, a successful grocery
| merchant doing business ou Teachtree
steel, Atlanta, was run out of his store by
I so army of rats. He moved his entire stock
I u a vacant store a few doors away, then
ing np the flooring laid down a floor of
t iron, replaced the planks aud moved
. He says he lias lost hundreds of dol-
liirs mom tbau his insurance and taxes
I embined by their depredations. The Con-
i thinks it a flue opening for some
I young mania the “Ferret” business.
A young highwayman, a negro about ten
year? oU, made a bold attempt in Atlanta on
| MaV to snatch the pocketbook of a lady
who was proceediug towards the business
!■ r:icn of the city. The purse was hanging
.rer the lady's left arm, when the urchin
Tabbed it and gave a violent tug, and for a
Qoment straggled to wrest the prize, but he
ailed, and the approach of some one caused
.at to release his hold and disappear.
The Itom- in'cine suspended publication
a Monday. Mr. A. Xevin, formerly of the
hrae C» 't‘T rl, will supply its place with
iieii . Press on the 1st of Septem-
| bar next.
A stirtJing report agitates the good people
•:-fAtlanta. I: is announced that the ma-
innery which was to run the factory that
Krmbd i btiiir, and for which the Lowell Ma
chine Company were to receive one hundred
Md thirty thousand dollars (but didn't),
I will be removed to Augusta and run the
I enterprise Mills, now nearly completed in
bit city. So that the music of the
Males and the merry hum of industry
I was after ail only in imagination. How
| “in d the Atlanta cotton mill suit for a
apitol building ?
A huge colored excursion from Columbus
Atlanta is billed for the Ath instant. It
f| ‘j for iiie ben -fit of the First Colored Baptist
I Church oi Columbus. A separate car will
I wprovided for such of the whites as may
| * sh to lend their aid to the good cause.
The people of Thomasvide are not moving
_ -' brisk,y as the might in regard to the
Pjfldingofthe proposed road to Monticello,
jr.orida, and the Times says that “if the
;• -position was to build a railroad from
-aomasVilla to heaven, some men would re-
36 to stock.” Why, we know some
" l0r * who wouldn’t take a dead-head
. over such a road, they are so much
J PP ( sed to railroad monopolies.
^ An (,. i mau ijy the name of McNaely was
' cre *y stabbed by a young man named
--.r-Lv^rec ally in the vicinity of Martin’s
Church, iu tho eastern part of
| ii ! mg county. Ir, appears that Mc-
n paying attention to Linds-
• 5 6, * s * er > aQ d at church on the evening
cutting threw kisses at tli9 young
-sveral times during service, which
I-- i- lay observed, aud after service asked
" 3a ‘ he meant by such conduct.
^ lover said he meant exactly what ho
I -
whi
1 re y Jed to harsh words and
• ^ blow from McNeely, whereupon
‘'•--'Jay ns£( l his knife, iuflicting four se-
- -bounds, on o of which, it is thought,
Prove fatal.
, ^ >or ^-yu°lda is going to prove to
a -People °f Gaiusvillo and Hall county
that the earth don’t revolve on
U at ai -* This cutting loose from
■ a of a healthy intel-
I C[I m condition.
Cjn^ 1 3 ‘‘ a * Gainesville, which is in Hall
at five cents a “washtubful.”
ro ' ^ crr y» an engineer on the Air-Line
two hundred and seventy-five
j- --s, ja fifty-one years of age, has been
I, •. Cl an en Sine for twenty-nine years,
IJ a ‘‘ never 0Q a ny road but the Georgia
®* What a terrible fellow Berry
1 it e ° na8trike?
cd y acan °y in the Griffin post office,caus-
■ T ; re Kignation of Mrs. Johnson, has
\j n s Hed by the
"Ran.
aud
The A
• appointment of Col. T. H.
c»rs thinks it a goodappoint-
sa - 8 : “Col. Logan has held the
. fcr . l )u Express Agent and Telegraph
tk ' 8 city for along series of
«bv., ’ , omiueut qualifications which
pbrou^r'.'* ♦ liru t0 retam these places will
|ke ’ the successful operation of
uCll e ba8ines8 -”
ftoomo '’ lua3V ilI° Enterprise eays: “Birney
Bujr. a,,-!?’' :Ue , of Ibe six jail birds that
FBeff-i'-ldf/L . nt raid upon the Sheriff
r-'icn.,i n 'd,, l r e ' r „ esc& P° some weeks since,
p : ; i i 10 Brooks county a few days
s , ( tiniv dressed in shackles aud
Wici orv P'J 11 and Bpado iu a rnanuer aat-
Th r * Goff."
Weik ’H< 10 its Oglethorpe
“tgroosinn following : “Last week some
Mtted an ,,°f Schley county com-
K n mi 1 ra " e 00 a white girl, between
rJtru . a , ;„ tw “iye years of age. One of
F stedaild iodged in jail at El-
f“'i some itnn B0 °8ht refuge in this county,
P'iiail , r - -nor more tu-groes undertook
; i. nceal him from arrest. The
toassp ^ Howell’s district, rallied
hi bronihfti arre8te d ten of the offenders
r O.letkori 11 ® m 'before the County Judge
|JBo» : “d'be Swainsboro jail
r tce Judrn t “ t eu aut, aud has been ever
Bj tl " ' lul n!>kiU8 cleared it out.”
l 1 roturn s of the Tax Receiver
■F 1 * 1 1 ■ “the ontire valuation of
(nil, r ‘. f p - r .;y m the county is $1,000,2G6.
,,. ra;l r> white, 974; colored, JUS.
Uii; U-. : | or acres of improved lands,
1 , tS 4 M.» da ’ 78 ' 1Si - Xotal value of
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, TPIURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1877.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
The following to the Columbus Times
h ‘‘Th«Tlk.t“ successfully contradicted :
in at.! nU Constitution of the 22d ult.
the A "Sa^ Chroni-
•r s TLrT: l f t U0 : ialW -' UEed ti’is remark:
Is it fair for the editor of the Chronic-Cun
to lug in w;hat tho Htate has had to pav for
?hat ?hn‘Je t tlant8 > wheQ »t is well known
the Sta?„ g h. er iF art of the bon da given by
of frind in b8en re PUdiated on account
J r n , tneir Drocuremeat ? This fact
CbnviLoWnr 1 , 0 the , Au 8dsta Chronicle and
GonMutionahst and the Macon Teleqraph
and Messenger, or else their ignorance is
p5>sSble” bly deDBer tbEa we bad thought
Bay tbat , aa a member of the
Committee last sesfeion, I bad 03-
n»rn n on examiae ,b is question with great
rn,nmT, h0pre p 88Dt Chairm ab <-t the Finance
Committee or the Couatitutional Conven
tion, and others, were then urging the pay
ment or compromise of $130,000 currency
bonds once held by Boorhman, Johnson k
It was claimed that they were apart
of the bonds issued in payment of the
Opera House. This the Legislature wisely
rejected by an overwhelming vote. In the
course of that investigation I ascertained
these facts, which I am prepared to prove
by reference to the legislative journal! and
P a P*V 8 °f fi*© in the Executive office.
I irst. That all that the State ever agreed
S® Purchase of the Opera Hr.use
«1 nn nnn 0,000 !* - aD( i ,or tho Mansion
$100,000, making $350,000.
. That the State paid thu amount,
$3ii0,U00, by issuing gold bonds which hare
never been repudiated, are reeogDizsd as le
gal, and the interest regularly paid on them
“llurd. That prior to this, H. L Kimball
had gotten possession of another $250,000
currency bonds, which he alleged were de
posited as collateral, and which he agreed to
retire with these gold bond.--,making $500,000
bonds issued in the Opera House purchase,
instead of $250,000.
“lourth. That these currency bonds have
been repudiated as not only irauden'.ly is
sued, but as bemg fraudulently outstand
ing, aud as being in the hands of peisons
who, with ordinary diligence, must have
known ot this illegal issue and improper ubs
of H. I. Kimball.
“Fifth. That the State was compelled to
pay Russel, Sago & Co., $75,000 to retire
5-120,000 of these currency bonds or lose a
much larger amouut.
“Sixth. That for good and sufficient rea
sons the last Legislature refused to pay tho
remaining $18J,000 bonds or to compromise
them with the present holders. Boor-
mau, Johnson & Co. are bankrupts, and are
*aid no longer to be the owners of said
bonds.
“The result of all these facts is that the
State, instead of $250,000, has paid $325,000
for the Opera House aud $100,000 for James’
residence, within the ten years that Atlanta
was to have furnished her with these accom
modations free of expense.
“If the Atlanta Constitution decides to
make an issue on these alleged facts, I am
prepared with the proofs, and if the Consti
tution will publish my replies to any denial
it may make of this statement, it will afford
me pleasure to establish it by proofs,
through the columns of a paper published
directly at the capital, where all the docu
ments to which I may refer can easily be
found. Respectfully, R. J. MoeEs.”
Florida Affairs,
A correspondent writing from King’s
Ferry, Nassau county, thus expresses him
self in regard to tho crop and social pros
pects of that section of Northern Florida :
“Crops were never better, especially corn,
and the acreage of sweet potatoes is at
least one-half more than it ever was before.
The white and colored people get along very
peaceably since the Democrats got control
of the State, but before that happy event
we had justice, or at leaBt injustice, dealt out
to us by a son of Ham, which was very dis
agreeable to a community that did not sport
a single carpet-bagger.”
A correspondent writes; “Where the old
fort now stands St. Augustine, I used to
hunt Iadians.” He does not however state
whether this was before or after the fort
was built, or whether the Indians were on
the war path or in captivity. This would
enlighten us more perhaps on the chronolo
gy of that ancient structure.
Eighty buildings were erected iu Gaines
ville during the last twelve months'and at
least thirty are now in prccess of comple
tion. With such work and workers the city
must prosper.
There is some talk of sending the Indians
now at St. Augustine back to the West this
fall. They are now partly civilized, and
would be au acquisition to Howard’s Indian
Bureau, but they would be a srd loss to Flor
ida tourists this winter.
They expect to sell corn in Jefferson
county for thirty cents per bushel this fall.
Emory College at its recent commence
ment conferred the degree of D. D. upon
the Rev. E. T. L. Blake, of Monticello, aud
that of A. M. on A. O. White, the efficient
principal of the Monticello Academy. These
degrees were not complimentary only, but
richly earned by the gentlemen named. Mr.
White ranks high as au educator, and will
doubtless take a front rank in the profes
sion to which he has devoted his superior
taienls.
Charles W. Blew has resigned his position
as Deputy Collector of Customs for the port
of Jacksonville, and has declined to accept
the Collectorship, which was tendered him.
Business matters connected with the publi
cation of the Semi-Tropical boiDg tho reason
he assigns.
The Indians from Fort Marion will be
camped on Anastasia island for two or three
weeks. A Comanche chief, Had-A-With,
died of consumption last Saturday, making
the tenth death among the prisoners since
April, 1875.
George E. Bryson, aged thirteen years,
very strangely disappeared from his father s
residence, at Hawkinsville, Florida, on the
221 instant. He left a note stating that he
was going abroad to go to school. Ho has
a stoppage in his speech, anl is supposed to
be iu company with one Daniel Smith, a
voung mau about twenty years of age. Any
inform ition as to young Bryeon’s where
abouts will be thankfully received by his
father, Judge J. C. BrysoD, Hawkinsville,
Florida.
The banana crop of North Apopua,
Orange county, will be almost a total failure
iu consequence of last winter’s freeze. The
orange crop will also be short; last winter s
cold and this summer’s drought have caused
much of the fruit to f%li off.
Two families, who left Great Bend, Kan
sas, on the 20th of March last, parsed
through Lake City the other day en route
for Jacksonville, haviog traveled the entire
distance by wagons. They are very agree
ably surprised with Florida, her climate,
soil, etc. e
A colored man named Columbns, who fol
lowed well-digging for a livelihood, was last
week engaged to clean out a well for Mi.
H. C. Gregory, in Wanknlla county. While
at work the well caved and became his
grave. It took Borne time to dig out tho
body, which was done with tho hope that
ho might possibly have escaped, bat life
was extinct.
At a recent meeting of the Board of
Education of West Florida Seminary the
two departments, male and female, were
united in one school, and Prof. James P.
Wade was elected principal; Mr. W. W.
Woodward, assistant in the male depart
ment; MissBettio Bythewood and Mrs. S.
S. Williams, assistants in the female de
partments. Good selections, which secures
a first class institution for the citizens of
Middle and West Florida.
Seven bears were seen on the beach near
Matauzas last week devouring turtle eggs.
The Pensacola Gazette sayB: “The
■Florida Affairs’ column of the Savansah
News is a valuable department of that en
terprising and excellent paper, which is
second to none in the South.” It is our aim
to make this column an attractive feature
of tho News, which we would find no diffi
culty in doing if all our Florida exchanges
from which we glean with a liberal hand
were up to the standard of tho Pensacola
Gazette. .
Four of the convicts at work upon the fat.
John’s and Lake Eustis Railroad have died
within the past month, ono of whom was
tho notorious Henry Scott, who assisted m
the murder of the Fagan family, on the
East Jacksonville shell road, Borne years ago.
Another was Thomas Drawdy, who had been
sentenced to twenty years for murdering a
man in Volusia county. The latter made a
complete confession daring his late illness.
The man has been found who could do all
the business he wanted to without adver
tising, and has been compelled to advertise
at last. He lives in Florida and his adver
tisement is headed, “Sheriff’s Saie.”
At a large meeting of the citizens of Or
lando, Orange county, held recently, T. D.
Mattox being elected Chairman, and S. B.
Harrington Secretary, it was resolved
“That the sum of six hundred dollars, voted
t>y the School Board as salary for services of
Superintendent, is excessive, and ought to
be reduced to three hundred dollars, in ac
cordance with the recommendation of the
grand jury.”
The Tampa Guardian, one of our valued
Florida exchanges, is pleased to have these
good words to say about the Savannah
Morning News : “The weekly, tri-weekly,
and the daily News, are three good friends.
They are always welcomed, as visitors, by
every Floridian, especially the weekly edi
tion, which is the best for its readers in
South Florida, owing to our mail facilities.
It is always full to overflowing with spark
ling and varied reading matter, adapted to
the gentleman of leisure, the merchant, the
mechanic, but more especially to the farm
er, for the agricultural department, which
affords him much information concerning
a little ot everything. This department
alone is worth the subscription price,
saying nothing of its general news
column and literary features. The
tri-weekly gives all the news,
three times a week, in a form to suit ihe
reader, and is the very paper where the
mail facilities are good. But the daily
edition takes the iead, as the be3t and most
reliable paper published South, in the way
of news, etc. Its readers are furnished
with the latest news from all parts of the
woild. In fact, the three editions are fully
up to the requirements of the times, in the
extent and variety of their reading matter.
They contain all ihe latest telegrams of any
consequence. May the News always hold
its present place in journalism. Either
edition commends itself to the reader. Oue
or two dollars expended in this way will
never be missed.”
The Jacksonville 'Evening Chronicle says :
“Several passengers who arrived by this
morning’s train from Jesup, complain of the
absence of ice water on the cars. With the
thermometer nearly up to cne hundred de
grees they think the railroad company might
supply this slight luxury.” We think so,
too.
We clip the following important circular,
addressed to the planters of Leon county,
from the Floridian. It is of eq ial interest
to planters throughout tho cottou growing
sections, and we give it place in this column
for the benefit of our Florida subscribers ;
“As the time for gathering aud forwarding
cotton is near at hand, permit us to make a
few suggestions that ought to be of interest
to the cotton planters. In recent years com
plaints have been made against Florida cot
ton on account of seed, gin tags, burrs aud
sand, thereby damaging its reputation.
Florida cotton is very much liked for its
body and staple, and will always bring more
money than the same grade of uplands;
some spinners like it even better than Texas
cotton. Let the planter, if ho has an old
and defective gin, cast it aside and procure
a new one or have his gin repaired, for cot
ton, free of seed, will sell for at least one
ctnt per pound more than if seedy. A man
ufacturer does not wish to injure expen
sive machinery by working up seedy cotton
if he can avoid it, aud having the right to
reject such cotton they invariably refuse to
take delivery. We argue, then, that it is
false economy to persist in using old gins at
such a heavy cost to the planter. Another
great cause of complaint is the gin tags in
cotton. Often cotton that would class as
middling is deteriorated iu value by care
lessness (if we may bo permitted to use the
expression,) in allowing gin tags to fall from
the top of the lint room into the cotton.
Sometimes gin tags are found in such quan
tities as to warrant the idea of their being
put in the bales intentionally. With a little
care in sweeping well the lint room during
the cotton season this cause of complaint
could bo obviated. We would advise that a
whipper be used to free the cottou of sand.
Let not your pocket pay tribute longer when
tho remedy is in your own hands. Respect
fully, * Earle & Perkins.”
We fiud tho following in the National Re
publican, and it will doubtless prove of in
terest *
“ ‘Washington, D. C., July 18, 1877.
“ ‘ To the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company,
New York:
“ ‘I am informed tbat you are named as
trustees in a certain deed of trust purporting
to have been executed by the Florida Cen
tral Railroad Company. This is to notify
you that said bonds are illegally issued, and
have been divided by Joseph B. Stewart, L.
P. Bayne, M. S. Littlefield, Thomas L.
Clingham, E. U. L’Eagle and others, in
fraud of the rights of the western division
of the Western North Carolina Railroad
Company, and that legal proceedings will at
once be taken in the name ot the stockhold
ers of the last named company to prevent
the perpetration of such fraud.
“ ‘Very respectfully,
“ ‘Mike L. Woods,
“ ‘Attorney for certain stockholders W. D.
W. N. C. It. It. Co., holding about nine-
teen*twontieih8 of the capital stock of
said company.’
“The concatenation of names in tho above
notice is suggestive of illegal bonds. Joo
Stewart, Littlefield and Bayne are well
known hereabouts, and have left their
marks behind them. It is said that they
came within an ace of getting off the bonds
above alluded to. The refusal of the trust
company to act upset the plot to raise the
wind.”
The question of bonds or no bonds is
being discussed by the Jacksonville papers,
an election having been ordered to decide
upon the issuing of one hundred thousand
dollars iu citj' bonds for the payment of the
city debt. The Evening Chronicle takes
the no-bonds side of the question, and ably
discusses the effect cf the issuing of bonds
for that purpose. The experience of all
cities 6hows that “bonds” mean financial
slavery. In the close of an article on the
subject the Chronicle wisely says: “Let us
then make the effort to got out of debt by
means of direct taxation. It will be hard ou
tax payers for two years, but alter that,
when we shall need nothing but the means
of carrying on thti government, wo shall
have low taxes, and if, when our accounts
are finally balanced, we are wise enough to
avoid incurring pecuniary obligations of any
kind whatever in the future, we shall con
tinue to have low taxes, which necessarily
carry with them prosperity and material
progression in every department of busi
ness.”
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
Some Things About Tweed.—Tweed
was a great coward on The water, and
could hardly be persuaded to join a
yachting P'trfy* On each New Year’s
Day he was in the habit of distributing
ten gold dollars, engraved with the Lord's
Prayer, among his friends. H9 owned a
number of pictures, but only those of
American artists, as he scorns foreign art.
He is patriotic, and he had half a score
of national flags at his villa at Green
wich. lie has a strong affection for his
native city, and, like many New Yorkers,
a strong prej udice against Boston. Lastly,
while sitting for his portrait to a leading
New York artist, he amused himself, when
not talking, with humming sentimental
airs to distract his mind from other
thoughts, he said. He could write a fair
note when he wanted to, and his usual
epistles were short and to the point. To
a local ward politician who was opposing
his wishes in some way he wrote as fol
lows: “Jack, what in the hell are you
doing over there f—you've got to switch
off. W. M. Tweed.” Tweed, like most
celebrities, was invited by all the leading
photographers to sit for his portrait, and
the latter was to be seen in scores of
places about the city. He dressed rather
plainly, and of late years usually wore a
white* cravat, which gave him a clerical
appearance His shirt front was adorned
with a fourteen-thousand dollar diamond
about the size of a hazel nut, which was
naturally very conspicuous, and eclipsed
Fisk’s famous jewel.—Boston Herald.
A Seneca Falls lady bad occasion to visit
the room of her servant girl a few days
since, while the latter was absent, and
discovered there a bustle of an entirely
new invention. It wasa veritable panier,
aud fil'ed with useful articles, such as
sugar, tea, coffee, etc. The inference is
that the girl’s sister was in the habit of
wearing it away from the house occa
sionally.
* » ■
Tutkish editors ate leading rather un
pleasant lives. Sarafian and Sabit, edit
ors of the Setamet, were so injudicious as
to comment upon the action of the gov
ernment. They were arrested, trted and
sentenced to two years’ exile in Lirbary.
It took forty-eight hours only to start
them from tho time the article appeared.
Farmers in the neighborhood of De
troit, Vlich., complain that tramps steal
*be clothing of their “scare-crows.”
Kitfhteenth Day’i Proceedin*s—Dlorussion
ot Judiciary lleport — Inferior Courts
Voted Down—No Extra Judies for Su
preme Court—Lively I>incus*ion—Inter
ested Judies Sot to Decide the Validity
of Bonds.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Atlanta, July 31, 1877.—The conven
tion was called to order by the President,
and prayer was offered by llev. T. B.
Tharpe, D. D., of the Twenty-third dis
trict.
The reading of the minutes was followed
by a memorial from citizens of Hart coun
ty, signed by C. W. Siedell and others,
setting forth that the average property of
the heads of families in that county is
six hundred and forty dollars, and they
ask that the homestead be fixed at five
hundred dollars. If put at a higher fig
ure they propose to work and vote to de
feat the new constitution at the polls.
President Jenkins announced the fol
lowing as composing the special commit
tee to memorialize Congress in regard to
refunding the cotton tax: B. F. Burnett,
of the Eteventh district; A. R. Lawton,
of the First district: T. L. Guerry, of the
Twelfth district; Porter Ingram, of the
Twenty-fourth district; N. J. Hammohd,
of the Thirty-fifth district; W. H. Ross,
of the Twenty-second district; W. T.
Wofford, of the Forty-second district; W.
M. Reese, of the Twenty-ninth district;
Joshua Hill, of the Twenty-eight dis
trict.
Mr. Hunt, of the Twenty-second dis
trict, offered an ordinance in regard to i
the homestead, which was referred to tho '
Committee on Final Revision; and Mr. R.
R. Jenkins, of the Tenth district, offered
a similar ordinance, which was also re
ferred in the same manner.
Mr. McIntosh, of the Thirty-fifth dis
trict, offered a buncombe preamble and
resolution about the convention and its
work—in regard to honesty and integrity
—short speeches and good work—the eyes
of the world on us, etc., etc—but the
convention tabled his fine literary pro
duction.
Leave of absence was granted for one
day to Colonel E. C. Greer, of the Twen
ty-first district, no other application
for leave of absence being made.
Mr. Moseley, of the Thirty-first dis
trict, Chairman of the special committee
to investigate into the number and pay
of clerks in the State House, asked for an
extension of time until Thursday morn
ing, which request was granted.
Mr. Shepherd, of the Thirty-third dis
trict, wished to call up for action the re
port of the Committee on the Reduction
of Judicial Circuits, but Judge Harrell,
Chairman of that committee, said the re
port would be amended before acted
upon, and the motion was tabled.
General Lawton, of the First district,
announced that the report of the Commit
tee on Final Revision on the Judiciary
was now in order, and it was, therefore,
taken up aud section first read by the
Secretary.
Mr. Osborne, of tho Thirty-first dis
trict, moved to amend by adding after
“Courts of Ordinary” the words “Inferi
or Courts,” which motion Mr. McDonald,
of the Fifth District, seconded in fitting
terms.
Colonel lugram, of the Twenty fourth
district, stated that the amendment was
not necessary, as this section provides
for the creation of such other courts as
may be desired.
Mr. Willis, of the Twenty-fifth district,
favored the amendment iu a forcible
speech, in which he explained tho neces
sity for such a tribunal.
Senator Reese, of the Twenty-ninih
district, moved to amend the amendment
by adding “in such counties as may de
siro the same, and with such jurisdiction
as the General Assembly may confer on
the same.”
Judge Harrell, of the Twelfth district,
opposed the amendment of Senator
Reese, as he desired the courts of the
State to be uniform.
Judge Hansell, of the Seventh district,
favored Senator Reese’s proposition, as
he was opposed to giving to some coun
ties a court which, owing to the character
of its voters, might prove a curse instead
of a blessing to the people.
Mr. Osborne accepted the amendment
of Senator Reese, but Mr. Bis.?, of the
Forty-second district, wanted to abolish
Courts of Ordinary in all counties in
which Inferior Courts may be created.
Mr. Hunt opposed both amendments,
as he didn’t believe these minor courts
were of any real benefit to the people.
Senator Furman, of the Twentieth dis
trict opposed, on the same ground stated
by Col. Ingram, that the section provides
for such additional courts as may be de
sired.
Gen. Lawton explained why the com
mittee had failed to recommend Inferior
Courts in all counties, and showed that
the provisions of the seclicn provides for
such courts in any county desiring them.
Mr. Willis wished to strike out the
amendment of Senator Reese, but his
motion was voted down by a heavy ma
jority.
Colonel Guerry, of the Twelfth district,
moved to table both of the amendments,
and his motion was carried by one hun
dred yeas; nays not taken.
Colonel Tift, of the Tenth district,
came to the front with another amend
ment • allowing the Legislature to create
such courts wherever desired, but his
proposition was tabled.
No other amendments being offered,
th9 President declared the first section
adopted.
The second section was then taken up
and Judge Collier moved to strike out all
of the section after “justices” in the first
line, and made a speech in favor of his
amendment.
Mr. Baes moved to strike out from
“justices” in the first line to “justices”
in the second line, which amendment
Judge Collier subsequently accepted.
Colonel Mathews, of the Thirtieth dis
trict, opposed the amendments in a very
floweiy speech and was followed by Gen.
Gartrell, of the Thirty-fifth district, in a
plain and forcible argument in favor of
the proposed amendments. Both gentle
men were eloquent and earnest through
out their remarks.
Col. Ingram here sent up to the Secre
tary’s desk, to be read for information,
an amendment providing that in case
two additional Justices are elected the
salaries of the Justices shall be twenty-
five hundred dollars per year.
Mr. Render, of the Thirty-sixth dis
trict, in a vigorous speech opposed the
creating of any new Justices. He said
Judge Warner didn’t desire them, they
were not needed, and the people couldn’t
afford to pay for them.
Colonel Featherstone, of the Thirty-
sixth district, endorsed the views of Mr.
Render, and advocated the adoption of
the proposed amendments, but Captain
Guerard, of the First district, opposed
him in a lengthy and concise speech, in
which he pictured Georgia’s future pros
perity in glowing and enthusiastic lan
guage.
Mr. Bass replied, and said the people
demanded economy and a reduction—not
an increase—in the number of public
officials. He therefore favored the amend
ments.
Gen. Toombs came to the defense of
his report in a speech of much earnest
ness, and declared that the extra expense
connected with the creating of two new
Justices was not to be considered in a
matter'of such great importance. The
Judiciary is the grand bulwark of the
people’s safety, and this proDosed addi
tion to the Supreme bench was demanded
by the future public welfare of the State.
Ex-Attorney General Hammond fol
lowed and endorsed Gen. Toombs’ views,
and clearly showed that the present
Judges, although mentally and morally
competent, were physically nnable to dis
charge fully and satisfactorily the duties
which devolve upon them.
Mr. JohusoD, of the Thirtieth district,
advocated the report of the committee in
a stirring speech, but the convention,
having listened to speeches for two
hours on this section, grew restless,
and called for the previous question.
But Elder Respass, of the Thirteenth dis
trict, claimed the floor for a moment, and
appealed to the convention not to place
aDy additional burdens upon the now
over taxed people of the State. Chief
Justice Warner has not asked for this
increase, and it is not a necessary one.
General Lawton followed in a speech
in defence of the report, he being Chair
man of the Judiciary Committee, and
stated that they had left the matter to
the wisdom of the Legislature.
Mr. Mershon called the previous ques
tion. but the call was not sustained, and
Colonel Featherstone offered a substitute
providing that the Supreme bench remain
as it now is.
Dr. Flewellen proposed that the two
new Judges be elected by a two-thirds
vote of the Legislature.
Judge Wright opposed and Pope Bar-
row favored an increase of Judges, when
the previous question was called and
sustained. The vote to strike out the
two proposed new Judges stood one hun
dred and twenty-nine yeas to fifty-three
nays.
Mr.Mynatt moved to strike out the word
“majority” and insert “one or more,”
and provide that the Governor shall sup
ply temporarily The place of sick or dis
qualified Judges, thereby always keeping
the bench full.
The second section was then adopted,
as amended by Judge Collier.
Judge Wright offered an additional
paragraph, as follows:
“Paragraph 3. No Judge of the Su
preme Court, or of any other court, shall
preside in any case affecting the validity,
or any material interest arising out of
any bond, Federal, State, corporation or
municipal, who holds in his own right, or
as the representative of others, any of
tho class of bonds upon which the ques
tion to be decided arises.”
Mr. Dismuke, of the Twenty-sixth
district, desired to amend this paragraph
so as to include Judges interested in rail
road stock, but his motion was opposed
by Messrs. Collier, Gartrell and Mathews,
and finally tabled.
Mr. Hammond, of the Thirty-fifth
district, offered a substitute, iu these
words: “Interest in the case at bar, or in
the questions raised therein, shall dis
qualify the sitting Judge from presiding
in such case.”
Capt. Guerard preferred tho brief,
simple language of Magna Charta—“No
man shall be a Judge in his own case.”
Mr. Mathews favored this, and Mr. Ham
mond withdrew his sub-titute, aud Judge
Wright’s paragraph was adopted by avote
of 110 yeas to 65 nays.
The next section (now numbered four)
was taken up, and Colontl Warren of the
First district, proposed to strike out the
word “appointed” and insert in its place
the word “elected.” He said the conven
tion was divided, some favoring appoint
ment by the Governor, others election by
the people, and still others election by
the General Assembly. He desired sim
ply to test the sense of the convention as
to whether they preferred any kind of
an election to an appointment by tho
Governor.
General Lawton called the speaker’s at
tention to section twelve, which provides
for the selection of Judges by the Senate,
but Colonel Warren replied that he de
sired to test the question upon the plain
issue of election or appointment.
After considerable further discussion
the subject was postponed until to-mor
row.
General Toombs offered a report of the
Committee on Final Revision of the Con
stitution on the report of the Committee
on Finance, Taxation and the Public Debt.
[The report beiug quite lengthy is
omilted for the present. It will be pub
lished in tail when finally adopted.]
Judge Harrell then presented some ad-
diiional rules from the Committee on
Rules, of which he is Chairman, and they
were adopted, after which the convention
adjourned. Chatham.
Virginia Stands Firm*
[Richmond Enquirer, July 20.]
The citizens of Richmond are justly
moved by a keen sense of the admirable
temper displayed by the railroad men
here and our laboring classes generally.
As General Wickham said in his remarks
yesterday, the wo kiDg men of this city
are the first in the country to denounce
the lawlessness which has reigned in sev
eral sister cities. A11 honor to them.
With our laborers these are hard times.
But while wages are low here we feel as
sured that our condition in that respect
will compare favorably with the financial
status of any city in the country, except
perhaps some municipalities on the west
ern slope. We have in mind a manufac
turing centre in New York State where
nearly every industry is cultivated—the
Remingtons, of Ilion. They make agri
cultural implements, steam and canal
boats, watches, sewing machines, the
automatic letter-writer, and half a doz-m
other specialties of manufacture. They
make the famous Remington rifle, and
during the last war between France and
Germany filled a contract from France
amounting to $53,000,000.
What is the situation in Ilion to-day ?
Wages have been cut down one half;
work is scarce, and the Remingtons are
many months in arrears to the army of
workmen who shared the prosperity of
their employers in the prosperous times.
No section of the State was more attrac
tive or remunerative to the laborer when
times were “flush.” Ilion feels sorely the
blight of this pinching period.
If we compare Richmond with New
York, the showing is in our favor. Our
securities are above par, our business is
increasing in volume, aud we aie at the
turning of the tide that promises to flood
us speedy improvement. Richmond is
bound to be strengthened by her present
law-abiding and dignified attitude before
the country. While Northern communi
ties are aflame with an excitement that
bodes no permanent nor transient good,
the Southern heart-beats are normal.
While in Northern cities we see Commun
ism rearing its dragon-head, the great
centres of the South are “solid” in their
devotion to industry and in their respect
for law.
Richmond is bound to be a gainer.
Her workingmen are bound to be reward
ed for their loyalty to principle, for their
intelligent appreciation of their duty aDd
their adherence to the only safeguard of
civilization—law and order. A commune
never righted a wrong. The indiscrimi
nate taking of life, the sacking of cities
and the insane deviltry of a mob never
purified a moral atmosphere, never re
formed a financial policy, never benefited
a bread-winner. Because these truths
are deep-sunken in the minds of our in
dustrious classes, Richmond is able to
calmly survey the field, reflecting that
her workingmen combine brain and brawn
in due proportion?.
They were celebrating the glorious
Four h in a Connecticut town by firing
an old cannon, which promptly exploded.
One piece of the cannon, weighing fifty
pounds, struck the ground in front of a
store, anu rose again with force enough
to go through a fefice and cut off a tree a
foot in diameter, seven feet from the
ground. A piece weighing one hundred
and forty pounds struck a barn; an eight-
pound piece went over a house and
dropped through the roof of an icehouse;
another made a hole in the road; another
eight-pound piece broke into a dwelling
house, making it look as if struck by
lightning; and a twenty-pound piece
struck a man on the hand, passed on and
destroyed a gate and a gate post.— Globe-
Democrat.
SOUTHERN FLORIDA.
A workingman’s convention was re
cently held in Galveston Texas, and the
principal resolution adopted looked to
the regulation of every labor market by
Congress. “We will petition that body,”
declares the resolution, “to pass a law
making it a penal offence for any corpora
tion or firm to advertise for men, either
laborers or mechanics, when the supply
is equal to the demand in their own locali
ties.”
Manatee Connry—The Cattle Hnnifs-
It* Denirabilitv for Immigrants—Tropi
cal Froits—Water Communication!*—
Fort Ogden—False Storle*, etc., etc.
Fobt Ogden, Manatee County, July
29.—Editor Morning News: 1 have of late
been receiving a gTeat many letters rela
tive to this portion of Florida, which has,
up to the present time, been overlooked.
Being the great cattle mart of Florida,
the idea obtained that it was unfit for
anything but raising of cattle, until the
cold snap last December, when persons
living on the St. John’s, and others at a
distance, have turned their attention to
this section as being the best tropical
fruit growing section in the State, and in
a coming day will be the garden spot of
Florida, for the many advantages it has of
climate and good water facilities. Our
rivers abound in fish, among which can
be named trout, bream, snapper, bass,
sheephead, turtle, oysters, clams, and a
great many other varieties, among which
are mullet, the most valuable of all.
There are three fisheries in Charlotte har
bor, who catch fish for the Cuban market
and do a large business. Fort Ogden is
situated on Pease creek, fifteen miles
from its mouth, which stream can bring
four feet of water up to this point. Good
pine and hammock lands are found on
both sides of the river, which
are subject to entry by home
stead or pre-emptiou at Uni
ted States or State price.?,
unexcelled in the State for orange land.
We grow corn, cane, rice, potatoes, pea?,
pumpkins, and in fruits, oranges, pine
apples, sugar-apples, guavas—in fact, all
tropical fruits that have been tried. We
had never turned our attention to fruit
growing until the past ten years, and most
of our groves are young; but those groves
that are bearing are fine. Judge Kiug
bas eighty trees, L. W. PaTker has fifty,
Z. G. Cury has sixty, and a few others
have small groves bearing. You can buy
two. three and four-year-old sweet trees
at from ten to twenty cents each.
There are some improvements to sell to
persons wishing to move into the range
to fatten stock at reasonable prices. Or
ange growing and cattle raising do not go
together—that is, many cattle. Our
ponds and swamps abound in quantities
of muck for fertilizing, and an orange
grove can be made easy, not by making it
all at once, but plant out fifty trees. You
can easily attend to them and at the same
time make coin, cane, potatoes, peas and
something to live upoD. The next year
plant fifty more trees, and so on every
year. You can soon have a largo grove
and make it self sustaining. But
it requires energy and some capital
to begin with, and time, say eight
years, to bring a grove to perfection. Of
course some of the more thrifty trees
will bear in six years, but not enough to
yield much profit. To make a large
grove quick it requires CDnsiderable capi
tal. Lumber you can buy—pine at
fifteen dollars per thousand, cypres3
at eighteen dollars, and any quantity of
fine cypress shingles at four
dollars per thousand. Our climate
cannot be excelled. The ther
mometer never ranges higher than eighty-
five degrees, nor lower than thirty-five
degrees. Last winter was the coldest by
far that was ever experienced in this
county, striking some guava trees to the
ground. We have good drinking water and
good health,but sometimes we have chills,
more especially among new comers, who
ail have to become acclimated. The old
settlers seldom have chills.
Fort Ogden is a scattered village of
about forty families, located within an
area of four miles, with two churches—
Baptist and Methodist—three stores and
a post office. We have a mail from Man
atee by Pine Lever overland, one from
Punta Rassa, embracing Fort Myers and
Charlotte’s Harbor, to this place. A new
route is to begin from Fort Meade, on
the east side of Pease creek, a distance of
seventy-fivo miles to Fort Ogden. Three
sail boats are running to Manatee, Punta
Rassa and Key West, carrying off the
produce and bringing goods to the
stores, which keep tolerably well
supplied, and sell at reasonable prices.
We have our drawbacks. The greatest
is transportation. The boat3 that run
here are too small for the emigrant, and
when emigrants speak of coming here
each place wants them to settle in its par
ticular locali y, and tries to frighten them
off by large stories as to mu quitoes, flies,
sand flies, ticks, alligators, snakes, and
that we down in Manatee are not civi
lized, and no better than the Indians.
Several reliable gentlemen told me that
the Captain of the Valley City told them
such tales of this society and insects
as to frighten any one who was a stran
ger. We do have mnsquitoes, fleas and
sandflies on the coast, and here, but not
bad, never troublesome in day time,
though we have to use bars to
sleep comfortably; and there are
but few poisonous snakes. We bid all
industrious, honest emigrants a hearty
welcome, and are anxious to have this
county settled up, and the emigrant will
find the people hospitable, and be treated
as well as in any portion of the State.
There are good lands north and south of
this point- The Caloosahatchee river
lands cannot be excelled for corn, though
not so good for oranges, having a layer
of rock underneath the soil. I will give
you a description of Caloosahatchee
river and Lake Ckeechobee at another
time. Fobt Ogden.
Sommer Flirtations*
[F^om the New York Times ]
This is the season when flirtations are
rightly presumed to be rife by the seaside,
at the lakes, among the mountains and at
i the springs. It is the period of senti-
| mental campaigning, of emotional skir-
■ mishing, which is to decide the great bat
tle in favor of or against matrimony.
There is hardly a foot of ground at any
prominent summer resort that has not
been the scene of a hundred coquettish
conflicts. Nearly every hotel, villa and
cottage teems with romantic associations;
and for young men and young women to
be left alone where each piazza has its tale
of sensibility, and the passing breeze is
seductively soft, is dangerous to their
mental peace, if not to their celibacy.
No one knows the amount of mischitf
Cupid is doing—it is pleasant to make
some deity responsible for any folly we
choose to commit—in these long, warm
days and luxurious nights. If we could see
all that is going on at the fashionable wa
tering places, we should find that human
nature has not changed since we were in
our salad days, and spooneyness was a
distemper cf our blood.
Managing mammas and wistful duen
nas may not be aware, and if aware, may
not approve, of many of the flirtations
or of the direction they take. But the
young folks engaged in them like them
well enough, and the flirtations are more
their affair, it must be allowed, than any
body’s else. It is a kindness of fortune
greatly as some of us may demur, the in
experienced couples are eventually pretty
sure to take their affeetional destiny into
their own hands, and regulate it accord
icg to their own feelings. They may not
be wise—they seldom are; they may not
reason about the future—it would be
strange if they should; but they trust
nature and fate in a way that is admir
able, and they are betrayed far less often
than might be supposed. It is very ques
tionable if flirtations and their natural
consequences, when continuously and
energetically prosecuted, would turn out
any better under immediate supervision
of the elders than they do when clandes
tinely managed. What begins in sheer
coquetry often advances to true esteem
and mutual sympathy, and a marriage re
garded as most imprudent at the time of
its occurrence frequently proves of the
happiest.
Flirtation is reckoned as a legitimate oc
cupation at summer resorts, and without
it the season would be considered very
tamo. It has many varieties and degrees:
some of them so mild and innocuous as
to be insipid; others so fast and furious
as to bo full of peril. These are rather
exceptional, however, and are not toler
ated, much less encouraged, by the good
society to which the writer and the
reader naturally and necessarily belong.
Flirtations for merely flirtation’s sake,
between maidens and bachelors, are of
the sort that is most common and least
objectionable. They are believed to be
the safest, too—danger beiDg represented
by wedlock, which all experienced flirts
set aside as impossible at the commence
ment of sentimental hostilities. Bit it
is j ust this kind of flirtation,as experience
demonstrates, that has the mo9t serious
termination. In a majority of cases
where yonng men and women—they need
not be so very young, either—begin with
a vague mutual fancy, to amuse one
another emotionally, a ring and a priest
are required soon or late.
If the combatants—for the relation of
the sexes before matrimony closely re
sembles a combat—should set out with
any aim or definite understanding—
touching marriage, for example—they
would be very likely to forget it, or drift
away from it, in the development of their
intimacy. The fact that they have no
purpose, no clear comprehension of one
another, constitutes their peril. Their
hearts are unguarded because unpre
pared; they are free because unfettered
by promises or conditions; they are reck
less because ignorant of what they are to
confront. Amid their fancied security
they are ever liable to surprises of the
affections, and these make short work of
judgment, of plans, of previous determi
nations. Hundreds of young people who
have gone to watering places rejoicing in
their liberty aud resolved to keep it, for
some years at least, have come away with
a triumphant yet conquered air, as if
they had met the enemy and were his, or
hers, as the case may be. They cannot
tell how it happened—lovers never can—
but it is evident to the dullest that some
thing has happened and that the happen
ing will continue.
Idleness, the parent of all mischief, as
well as a great deal of pleasure, acts most
favorably or unfavorably upen young
people whose only thought is to ba
agreeable to one another, especially when
they are exposed to romantic influences.
The effect of external on human nature,
if her mood be amiable, is generally
amative; and the young man who can look
by the hour at the midsummer moon and
the mountains, or walk under the stars on
the ocean’s rim, with a sentimental girl
on his arm without a dawning sense of
approaching husbandship must have been
designed for an anchorite, and anchorites
are made, not born.
A sour bachelor has declared that
watering places are tho cause of more
matrimonial misery than ten times their
number of cities. If so they must pro
duce their share of matrimonial happi
ness likewise. At any rate they should
be avoided by those opposed to the con
jugal yoke, for the flirtations they
inevitably engender make marriage
probable by assuming at the outset that
marriage is impossible.
Lotteries were abolished in England in
1825, when the last yielded $1,456,500.
In 1819 they yielded $3,395,750, and in
1807, no less than $3,987,515.
London’* Greatest Club.
[From the London World.]
Since a paragraph went the round of
the papers announcing the portentions
intelligence that the Duke d’Autuale had
arrived in London and dined at Tho
Olnb, I have received endless inquiries
from clubists and clnbomaniacs “of every
stripe” concerning the identity of that
institution. The club is the body founded
by Sir Joshua lieynolds and Dr Johnson
in 47G4. For some years it met on Mon
day evenings, but now dines ever fort
night during the session of Parliament.
Prom twelve the members of the clob
have gradually been increased to
forty, or rather thirtyseven, the
present number. The Club met
originally at the Turk’s Head in
Garrard street, and is now lodged at
Willis’ rooms, King street, St. James’.
The original members were Sir Joshua
Reynolds, Dr. Johnson, Edmund Burke,
Dr. Nugent, Bennet Langton, Topham
Beauelerk, Oliver Geldsmith, aud An
thony Chamier. Since 17G4 many other
famous men have been members of the
clob, to wii: George Colman, David Gar
rick, James Boswell, Fox, Gibbon (who
drew up the notice of election), Adam
Smith, Sheridan, Windham, Sir Joseph
Banks, Canning, Sir Humphrey Davy,
Sir James Mackintosh, Sir Walter Scott,
Chantrey, Hailam, Brougham, Dean Mil-
man, W he well, Sydney Smith, Macaulay,
and the la:e Bishop of Winchester.
At the oval table over against the por
traits of Johnson and Reynolds—Doth
admirable specimens of Sir Joshua—more
than ten brethren rarely meet. Among
the present members are Prof. Owen,
Mr. Gladstone, Eirl Russell, the Arch
bishop of Canterbury, Mr. Lowe, Dean
Stanley, Mr. James A. Froufle, Mr. Al
fred Tennyson, Lord Cairns, Prof. Tyr-
dall, Mr. F. Leighton, Lord Houghton,
and the Dnke d’Aumale, the cause of this
note. Mr. Henry Reeve is the Treasurer.
The motto of the club is Estoperpetua.
The total available force of militia in
Pennsylvania has been shown by the cur
rent rebellion there to be not over one
thousand live hundred men. Governor
Hartranft was evidently stretching mat
ters when ho announced to Grant that he
would swoop down to Washington on a
day’s notice with sixty-five thousand well-
armed and drilled militia to put' Mr.
Hayes in the W hire House. Hartranft is
not reliable.—Exchange.
Turkish baths were introduced into
England, and thence to the United States,
by a traveler and political writer, David
Urqubart, who died recently at Nice,
Gbizzlie*—Tt xas Jack writes from
the wilds of Wyoming Territory: ‘*1
came near getting into a scrape with two
grizzly bears the day before yesterday.
One of the Englishmen (he is out with a
large party) and myself saw them at a
distance, aud headed them off with our
ponies. When we came up they were
both lying asleep under the shade of a
scrubby pine. The ponies were so
frightened that I had to hold them while
he shot. One fell dead, but the other
made for us. My horse wheeled; I fired
and struck him just as he was coming np
to my friend. The shot stopped him",
but he recovered soon, and we had a lively
time rushing around through the brush
for a little while. He eventually hid and
we lost him, but the other one’s skin is
lying in camp, and I don’t think the Eng
lishman will want to see any more bear
very soon.”
On Wednesday a party of Communists
called at the office of Robert Law, the big
coal man. “You must pay your men two
dollars a day, or we’ll shut you up,” said
the spokesman. “And who the devil are
you, sir ?” demanded Robert. “We
represent the labor strike, and must be
obeyed,” imperiously demanded the
spokesman. “Well, yon want me to pay
my men two dollars a day, do yon?”
“Yes, and you must do it, too.” “I’m
much obliged to the labor strikers. I’m
now paying my men from three dollars to
four dollars and fifty cents a day, and a
redaction to two dollars will be a good
thing for me, but go and see the wor!*-
men about it, you d—d fools 1” Thaim-
perious dictators looked cheap, ana va
moosed the ranche.—Chicago Journal.
Robbing stages going to and from the
Black Hills is becoming of so common
occurrence tbat the Omaha Bee suggests
it will be a saving of time to newspapers
to keep standing for daily insertion a
notice after this kind, anticipating the
news: “The out-going stage will be
robbed to-morrow night at 11:15,. eighty
miles from DeadwooJ. The gentlemanly
business agent of the gang will allow no
insults to passengers, they only being re
quired to give up their valuables. The
ladies will be treated with the greatest
respect, and will be permitted to retain
their jewelry and wardrobe. No swear
ing tolerated during the transfer of prop
erty, and passengers will not be unrea
sonably detained.”
Blacks and Whites it the South.
The following is from the Chicago
Tribune, a Radical paper. While it wil 1
be noticed that Radicalism will crop ont
j in it every now and then, still it is inter-
i esting as evidence that a more liberal and
just feeling towards this section is gain
ing ground, and is rapidly taking the
place of past malignity and misrepresen
tation on the part of the North :
An observant correspondent who has
traveled through the South, who has had
more than the ordinary facilities for ob
serving the relations between the blacks
and whites in tbat section, reports
that the two races are now living to-
gether more amicably and working to
gether more efficiently than ever before,
and that everything points to a constant
improvement. This correspondent says
plainly that there is more peace and good
feeling between the two races than there
would be at the North if the same propor
tions existed. There i re many good
reasons for believing this to be true.
The people of the North have never had
to deal with the difficulties of a com
mingling of the two races in society,
business and politics in anything like
the same number. If the negroes
of Mississippi or South Carolina
were to be colonized in Illinois, it can
scarcely be doubted that more serions race
disturbances would occur than have ever
been reported from those States. These
disturbances would not, perhaps, arise
from the same conditions; the sentiment
of caste is not so powerful at the North
as at the South, but, on the other hand,
the race prejudices are even stronger
among the laboring classes. The effort
to work negroes in large numbers along
side of the whites on the railroads and
farms, in tho foundries, factories, and
workshops, in hotels and public employ
ment, as masons, carpenters, etc., would
be resented as an invasion of the white
laborer's rights and a menace to the white
laborer’s future. Nor would whites and
blacks live together in towns and cities
with the same sense of security as in the
South, if the population were divided into
anything like equal numbers, because
the social prejudice against the Hacks is
unquestionably more pronounced among
Northern people than among Southern
people, where the two races have been
reared together for many generations.
Finally, it may well be assumed that
there would be serious political trouble if
the blacks living in a Northern State in
equal numbers with the whites were to
put themselves forward and claim offices
as a “political element” with a strength
equal to the American, Irish, German
and Scandinavian “elements” combined.
This suggestion of the race relations bas
not received attention enough in con
demning the political and social conflict
that has been going on at the South since
the close of the war.
But the whites and blacks at the South
are mutually better prepared to live to
gether in peace, because of their mutual
dependence. Their interests are strongly
cemented, and there is no doubt that in
terest will prevail over sentiment or pre
judice, when the passions shall no longer
be incited by constant irritation. It
seems to be accepted, after years of ex
periment, that it is only black labor that
can produce ail the wealth which the
South is capable of producing. The
strength of the blacks is in their indis
pensable condition as a laboring element.
It is certain to insure them political and
social protection in the end. The im
portance of this consideration is already
recognized in those Southern States
where the population is no longer
torn asunder by political dissensions
and incendiary appeals to race hostility.
It is not strange that the blacks
should be less prominent in public affairs
for a time. They must add more intel-
li ience, eduefftion, and political expe
rience to their mere numbers before they
can claim a majority in the Councils,
Legislatures, Courts, and other public
places. But there is no sign anywhere of
a disposition to deprive them of their
political privileges. Already the naiive
whites are beginning to discover that
they will be useful politically as they are
indispensable industrially. The progress
toward their emancipation from the
threats, intimidation, and violence of the
native whites will be rapid and con
stant as the native whites turn their
attention from political and race
struggles to the new accumulation of
wealth. The negroes are essential to the
prosperity of the South, and the time is
at hand when material prosperity will be
of more account to the Southern people
than the indulgence of old time preju
dices. The fire-eaters as a class will de
cline at a rapid rate from now on, and the
negroes will be of notable service in
helping to drive them from political
power. The conservative public men
of the South have now begun to dis
cover benefits in a general and popular
system of education which they never
before recognized. They are beginning
to feel tbat both blacks and whites will
be more useful to their country, inda*-
trially and politically, with a higher de
gree of information and intelligence; and
every effort now making, or that shall be
made in the future, for the extension of
education, includes and will include the
blacks as well as the whites. Black
labor at the South is the basis of that
section’s prosperity, and it will assure the
educational, social and political improve
ment of the negroes under white gov-
men t.
First Fisherman—“Wot was the lady
sayin’ to yer, Billy ?” Second F.—“Wants
to paint my pictur’. Never knowed I was
so 'andsome before.” First F.—“Thought
I’d seen ’er somewhere. That’s Madame
Toosoo! Wants yer in wax for the cham
ber of ’orrors!”—London Fun.
A Duel to the Death.
[Frankfort, Ky., Yeoman, July 10.}
On Saturday last, about dusk, Daniel
Brown and Byron Yount met at Crop
per’s and engaged in one ‘ of the most
desperate encounters that ever took
place in Shelby county, both parties
being killed.
The paiticulars are as follows: Daniel
Brown, who was a local reporter for the
Shelby Sentinel, two weeks ago burlesqued
through the Sentinel a younger brother
of Yount’s, who had had a fight with a
younger Perry—both boys being under
fifteen years of age. Saturday evening
last John Yount, the burlesqued bey, met
Me. Brown at Cropper’s, and, taking him
aside, asked him something in regard to
the article in the Sentinel. Brown not
making the matter satisfactory, John
Yount expressed his boyish mdigDation
at Brown, who resented by slapping
Johnny over, and walked off. John re
ported the affair to his older brother,
Byron, who esponsed his quarrel, and
daring the evening he and Brown passed
some high words. Each knowing the
other’s disposition well, and being stout,
able-bodied men, they parted and
prepared themselves for the next
meeting. Brown borrowed a little
four-shot pistol from his friend,
James Edwards, and Yount, after seek
ing in vain for a weapon, finally forced
himself into Alexander's store, and took
a pistol from the private drawer. Thns
prepared, the two walked toward each
other, and met at the railroad, one on
one rail and the other on the opposite
rail. In this position Brown asked Yonnt
when he was ready; Yount replied :
“Now,” and both fired simultaneously
iato each other, only five feet apart.
Y’ount’s ball entered Brown’s right breast,
just below the nipple. Brown's ball en
tered the lower part of Y’ount’s abdomen,
and ranged downward into the leg.
Brown continued to fire, and emptied bis
four barrels, one ball entering Yount’s
wri3t; another, entering his right side,
ranged around on the outside; one missed
entirely. Y’ount’s pistol refused to re
volve, and while under fire he
spat on his thumb and endeavored to
wrench the cylinder around; but failing,
he closed with Brown, and they pounded
and pommeled each other with their pis
tols until they were parted; they again
ran together, and fought until both fell
from exhaustion. When taken apart.
Brown’s grip was still upon Yount’s arm,
which had to be loosened by friends
forcing open the hands.
Both parties were laid upon the plat
form, a short distance from each other,
and five doctors summoned: but no relief
could be afforded Brown. While lying
thus, Yount, it is said, swore at Brown,
and said to him if he could only reach
him, that he wonld soon put him out of
the way. Brown died at two o’clock
Sunday morning, and was buried at
Pleasureville Cemetery on Sunday. Y’onnt
lingered until Sunday evening, when he,
too, died, after suffering great pain.
Brown was a graduate of Eminence
College, was a member of the Christian-
burg Baptist Church, and was well be
loved and respected in his section. Yonnt
was the son of George Yount, a well-to-do
and highly respected farmer of Shelby
county.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe speaks of
the fishermen on the sea of Galilee as
smelling of the salt water. The waters
of Galilee are remarkably fresh, and the
apostles who fished there were no more
“old salts” than if they had lived on top
of the Pyramid of Cheops.