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KEMITTANCES
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, , order, Registered Letter, or Ex
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J. n. ESTILL,
Savannah. Ga.
I)()>N1 CI,4RA.
man from Heinrich Heine.]
. following poem is from the pen of
our well known citizens. We are
. -he impression that it has already
.ired in
rib
e inem ry <
uiil'a ddigl
give stu
: . columns of the News, but
; or not, it is well worthy of
—Ed. News.
■ 1 d th' Alcalde’s daughter,
! ,w ry paths along,
t, m arm'ring water
iasu and festive song,
trv, slupid dances,
at fui cava iers !
;; their amYons glances,
: hopes and tremb iDg fears;
one only pleasure,
: hat dear unknown,
, my heart's best treasure—
; expression grown—
. e gently stealing,
iminer 0 Love’s star,
k the chords of feeling,
,j, L . f( ,i; of his guitar.
Ivnut ! tui, what grace, what fire—
3 - 7.*:is-; .-parkles in his eye !
- :.iself, could not aspire
;r , : acc and dignity!
’ ,. ...ra, as she crushes
; j ;. loot the vi’lets’ pride,
. ; i id with rosy blushes ?
lover’s by her side.
7.: ban t the lovers wander
ic. ; - dream of bliss;
.hi-pers, no ting, ever fonder,
on a kiss.
! earns the soft moon’s lustre,
, - ::ej>byrs gently sigh;
;-l .-roses, as they cluster,
1.< Hi ecstasy.
.-way the blooming roses,
,’ii a purple hue;
_ : : i y -low.y closes
tarn■ 1:: lips to kiss the dew.
tliose eyes that light me,
.. : 1. .. ay that blush so red?'’
the nut-, and they did bite me,
haM' 1 •' n inner gnats,” she said.
-..in:; r g 1. is, to me as hateful
1 :des of hook-nosed Jews;
. rliug, i am grateful
:; c ai corse the base Hebrews.”
.d blossoms showered
re of glowing white,
!c:r perfumes lowered
ii aiS oi the night.
one, dost thou love me ?
: hear: mine—ail mine?”
. that beams above me,
i r 1 thine—all thiue;
; - hove me hear it,
,<1 die oath I use :
m\ ear I swear it,
' - hang dog Jews. ”
a! ne, my dearest;”
l . .-ays t*’e knight,
. lilies, fairest,
: them, steeped in light.
. he matters Q,
.-worn me no false oath?”
r timid 1 os.-in 11 uttered!
imrefore doubt my troth ?
< '■ !i“t tin- e veins are paint d
tine of purest hue ?
•i ; blood is tainted
il.- ■ Me or or cursed Jew.”
.h-' in tones caressing :
’da- •Iwvs and Pagans rest.”
une i and panting kissing
- chiug and love blest,
c _!nve, Love’s feathered singer
.1 pours the nuptial lay,
Aorins round them linger,
:*• : lies, bright and g iy.
no loafl :t mutters;
o roses veil their eyes,
dw iiiguid zephyr flutters,
■ •' 'voids and smothered sighs.
• h the dark’ning river
(Mast and cymbal clear;
: lai 1 did start and quiver,
i‘ timid, burned deer.
• cries, “1 n orris must leave thee:
»listrne love's knell;
i .—<lo not deceive me—
li d name and lineage tell.”
• i her ro*y finger tips;
- I i: r dark and glossy hair;
. r -lowing, pantiug lips;
■ i .-poke out that cavalier :
• I- thou then, sweet love, discover
. e and in cage that I bear,
I .- 1 as thy true lover ?
. : hen, my own true dear—
d l*aac Ben Mannassa
; - learning's much in vogue;
'oe.i in baragossa,
1 Kaiib; in the Sj'nagogue !”
—S. Yates Levy.
ni
Affairs in Georgia,
have had abundance of rain in
nnty for the past week anti cotton
• 1 look remarkably well, says the
I'^nj Cuuh'i’/ Weekly.
th. t oe 14th instant the residence of Mr.
la? Buzhbardt, in Richmond c'ounty, was
|entered and a trunk containing one hun-
'Imiurs in sliver and currency stolen,
ii'aiin was found in tho woods empty. A
e o f o giri has confessed.
Ilie old sorrel horse that palled the first
Kreet car ;n Atlanta, five years ago, is still
iv duty on the Decatur street line.
‘‘ v * ' jT - ik DeVotie, D.D., recently pastor
■ liis Baptist Church at Griffin, has re
eved to Atlanta.
It
tabuei
Jpat t
. :hat the negro boys of Rome make
ho-s to drive hogs from tho country
- ii! the pound to get ten cents
>ndof
Oa Tut
^ is great excitement now among tho
' iZL ' a3 of the Ophir neighborhood, Chero-
! - Gry, era diamond found by M. L.
digging gold—a brilliant dia-
eecond water, and supposed to
rat.
y morning Mr. Russell, of the
( a of Eppinger A Bussell, of Brunswick,
- superintending the loading of a train
r lU ' J k ;:is.wick and Albany Railroad, at
• J ii i i w Brother’s mill, accidentally fell
" r ^>'1 cued his shoulder.
i . ; • 1 J fever is prevailing to a great ex-
iu Rime. The Summervillo Gazette
‘ a a that about thirty cases of this fever
0 reported in that city last week. Only
athu, however, had occurred,
faring the session of the Georgia Teach-
- - >n, at Tocc-ja City, last week,
J - ‘ “'-Table Dr. Means was introduced by
-- ^’resident as the oldest teacher in the
Las received up to date since Sep-
■-“K-rist, 1S76, thirty-two thousand six
u “ r 1 and thirty-nine bales of cotton.
; Aiam T. Martin, of Madison, while
under mental depression, shot
’Bh a pistol on Wednesday night
Ball entered the right temple and
- • roas and lodged above the left eye.
' alive, but little hopts arc enter-
c 1 hi 8 recovery by the attending
r of an engine on the Air-Line
-• uston Monday afternoon last, by
1 conductor had his face and eyes so
- scalded as to make it probable he
‘ ibe sight of both eyes. The en-
• v as the Charlotte, No. 4, and had been
‘S ka uae.
John Davis, a farmer, who lives in
a 1 Birr i county, and who is seventy-four
' a ‘ 3 o; ^> through all the vicissitudes of
• i panics anl droughts, has never
a bushel of corn or a pound of
-uice ho began business for himself,
ca-i beat this ?
• m Hill, tho negro who killed Robert
1:5 , bas been captured and placed in
-couutyjail. He was caught seven
uorthof Monroe, by Braham Ander-
■1 the Sheriff of Walton county, Col.
• • ’ Anderson, who deserves great praise
1 - untiring and zeal ms work in hunt-
^ •‘••3 murderer down apd having him
' iic cotton receipts at Columbus to date,
. e Se Ptember 1st, foot up 72,265 bales,
more than last year, aud of this
l!ie mills have taken 9,618 bales,
• . 10,472 J&at year—decrease of 854.
, 1 - «Lys ago one Mr. Self, formerly of
h; county, was arrested and brought to
: • ' ^kerokee county, to be sent to
1 Carolina to answer a charge of
,“ rd « in that State.
of White
croV t0 &rrest a m&D, followed him
.. l * ie line, where lie was shot by one
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
22, 1877.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
They have no appliances to extinguish
fires m Madison, and the local paper-the
Madison Journal-says if a house takes
lire it is sure to bum to the ground. About
11 0 clock on Sunday night last the servants
house on the premises of Mr. J. W. B. Cal-
loway took fire, and in less than an hour was
totally destroyed.
The Gazette says : “Darien is progressing
and growing fast. Improvements are go
ing on in nearly every portion of the city.
Let Darien march on.”
Ned Williams, a colored man, who was
convicted of assault and battery, and who
escaped from the chain-gang nearly two
years ago, returned to Darien on Friday and
delivered himself np to the officers. Ned is
now in jail.
The Henry County Weekly savs : “The
rain storm last week washed away a largo
number of mill-dams throughout the
county. Every one on Walnut creek was
destroyed but two. Among the sufferers by
the ravages of the flood were Messrs. Price,
Farga8ou Turner, Alexander, Gastello,
Knott and others. ’
The Daliionega Signal and Adoertiser says:
uwmg t° the heavy fruit crop, and the
great difficulty attending its transportation
to market, it is beiDg rapidly distilled.
Commissioner Harrison reports a larger
number of stills in operation in Northeast
Georgia than was ever known before.”
Tbe Darien Gazelle says: “We regret
very much to learn that there is considera
ble sickness on St. Simon’s Island. We learn
that the sickness is censed from the fact
that there is quite a numberof ponds on tbe
island. A thorough drainage or these ponds
is what is needed there.”
The Southern Chi'istia.n Advocate, an
nouncing the death of D. Rosser Adams, of
EatontOD, which occurred on Monday of
last week, says : “We saw him at the dis
trict meeting a few weeks ago, and al
though feeble in health, he bid fair to live
several years. He was ono of the best men
we ever knew, and in his day was among
the most useful of our people.”
The Cuthbert Appeal says: “Yesterday
morning three prisoners—Jack Brown and
Lem Ansley, negroes, and Wm. Beard, white
—succeeded iu overpowering J. M. Brooks,
jailor, and making their escape from jail.
After passing Brooks at the cell door, they
were confronted by bailiff H. B. Elder at the
head of the stairway, whom they knocked
down the steep flight of stairs, breaking his
right leg a few inches below tho knee, and
otherwise bruising him. The prisoners im
mediately made for the Gormley branch and
made good their escape. Sheriff Smith offers
a reward for their capture.”
We got the following interesting mining
item from the Rome Tri- Weekly Courier:
“Mr. Christian Fromm arrived here a few
month 4 ago from Knoxville, Tenn. He soon
discovered ho was in a section of country
rich in minerals of various kinds, and being
an old and experienced miner, set out pre
pared and equipped to locate them. H9 has
visited various localities, and has made
several very valuable and important dis
coveries, which, ere long, will result iu im
portant enterprises. He returned from
Bartow county last Wednesday, where he
discovered and leased two immensely rich
black lead mines on the Western and Atlan
tic Railroad—one owned by Col. Jones, of
Bartow, and one by Capt. Dobbins, formerly
a banker of Atlanta, but dow a citizen of
Oartersville. Mr. Fromm expects to open
these two mines within the next month, and
be shipping this lead off by the car load.”
The Sheriff of Brooks county has recaptured
Cally Hall, the would-be destroyer of her in
fant, who made her escape from the house
where she was confined, at Quitman, a short
time since. He made a flying trip to Madison
county, Florida, on last Sunday night, and
returned tho next day with Cally and her
mother—the latter being charged as an ac
cessory to the crime. They are now in jail,
where they will be very likely to remain un
til the next term of the Superior Court.
The Perry Home Journal has ooliected
the following facts in reference to the cap
itals oT Georgia. “From the founding of
the colony up to the time it fell into the
hands of the British, the seat of government
was at Savannah. By proclamation of Gov.
Wereat, tbe Legislature met at Augusta on
the first Tuesday in January, 1740. The
State was afterwards overrun by the enemy,
and Augusta was alternately iu possesaion
of the British and Continental troops. Au
gusta was tho nominal seat of government
until it was returned to Savannah on the
evacuation of that city in 1783. In 1795 the
constitution fixed the capital in Louisville,
in Jefferson county, from which place it was
removed to Milledgeville iu 1804:. Our
readers can all remember its removal from
Milledgeville to Atlanta in 1868. Milledge-
ville was the seat of goverinent sixty-four
years.”
The Pearson Pioneer says : “It is reliably
asserted as a fact that, within the limits of
our sister county, Irwin, there is neither a
lawyer, doctor nor Methodist preacher to b
found, aud but ono store, and yet ’tis said
that the people are happy.”
At a recent meeting of tho Hart County
Agricultural Society the foliowing officers
were elected by acclamation : F. B. Hodges.
President; J. G. McCurry, Vice President;
C. W. Seidel, Secretary and Treasurer ; J. F.
Craft, J. L. Turner, J. G. McCurry, Execu
tive Committee.
The Dalton Gazette says: “Mr. W. H. Til
lery and family have just returned from
Tybee, rear Savannah, where they went to
recuperate, eDjoy the sea breeze, etc. Mr.
T. informs us that,for giving one an appetite
and improving one’s health generally, there
is nothing to compare with bathing in the
sea. Then why is it that our people will go
to distant watering places, when wo have
waters in our own State equally as health
giving, and water falls as magnificent as any
in the world ?”
The Berrien County News has the follow-
3g graphic sketch ot the growth and pro
gress of that fine countr: “The progress
of our county is onward aud upward. The
population is steadily increasing, and our
lauds are coming into note. The greatest
improvement now going on is in the science
of agriculture. In this pursuit no county
in the State is making more rapid strides
than this. Our soil is adapted to the culti
vation of cane, rice, rye, peas, millet, pota
toes, corn and cotton, and every production
of the State except wheat, and occasion
ally fine crops of this have been produced.
Oar lands properly cultivated will yield from
thirty to forty bushels of corn and a bale
of cotton to the acre, and as many potatoes
and oais as a man wants, which is truly in
viting to immigration. Health, good water,
school, church and mail facilities are un
surpassed. The market for every production
is good and accessible. If a man wants to
raise sheep, no more inviting green pastures,
sown by nature’s hand, are to be found than
here. Honesty is one of the ruling princi
ples of our people, to which they cling
with such tenacity that corn cribs and
smoke bouses are seldom locked. Every
body attends to their own business and
everything moves harmoniously.”
He was for forty
county, and in at-
9 PMee, contrary to Selfs orders.'
Florida Affairs.
The Indiana have returned from their en
campment on Auastasia Island, and their
school at the fort has recommenced.
Joseph B. Brown has received his com
mission as Postmaster at Key West.
There has been but one murder committed
in ten years in Putnam county.
The crops in St. John’s county are doiDg
nicely, aud will yield abundantly. It is ono
of the best seasons for farmers for years.
More than 40,000 letters passed through
the Jacksonville post office during the
month of July.
The village of New Britain, on Halifax
river, contains thirty-four houses and one
hundred and thirteen inhabitants.
George Papino, a respectable colored
man, was drowned while bathing In the surf
at St. Augustine on Wednesday. He ven
tured out too far, and was taken by tho cur
rent, and though efforts were made to ren
der assistance, he became a victim of the
waves.
The dwelling house of Capt. J. JohaaoD,
at Pilot Town, was struck by lightning
Tuesday last and 301110what damiged. Mr.
Johnson and children wer8 uninjured.
The private boarding houses of St. Augus
tine are said to be crowded with visitors,
mostly from Tallahassee, Monticello, and
other parts of Middle Florida. They luxu
riate iu fish frios, clam bakes, and sea
bathing.
Judge Wm. R. Hiliyer is quite sick in
Fernandina.
Through the interposition cf friends, tho
difficulty between Col. Rogers and Dr. Gary
has been settled satisfactorily to both
parties. These two weli known citizens of
Ocala had a personal rencounter a few days
ago, which resulted in the wounding of one
of them, and we are pleased to learn that
the matter between them has been amicably
adjusted.
The a nouncement male recently that
Mr. F. B. Papy, the General Superintendent
of tho Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile
Railroad, would pass intended settlers com
ing into the State by way of Cattahoochee
free over hig road, was not strictly correct.
Mr. Papy’s offer was to pass all immigrants
intending to settle on the line of the road,
anywhere between Chattahoochee and Jack
sonville.
A party of immigrants passed through
Ocala last Thursday for Manatee county.
So far they have had bad luck. One
shot himself while practicing with a
pistol, aud another was kicked by a mule.
An old negro man was shot and killed by
his eon, on Mrs. Carraway Smith’s place,
west of Madison, Thursday morning. A post
mortem examination was held, and the jury
returned the verdict, “accidentally shot.”
Columbia county has now thirty-five pub
lic schools iu operation, at an average of
thirty-fiye scholars to each school. The Su
perintendent says there will be seven more
schools in operation soon.
Corn is selling in Marianna for seventy-five
cents per bushel, with but little demand.
The work on Lake Griffin canal has been
suddenly terminated by an order for the
convicts to report at Volusia.
Sumter county has two infantry com
panies.
The fig crop in Florida, which has been so
much neglected, is attracting attention.
At a public sale ic Jacksonville last week,
eight city bonds of $250 each sold for 82
cents, and eight Volusia county bonds of
$100 each brought 65 cents.
The county site of Bradford county has
been removed from Stark back to Lake But
ler, twenty miles from the railroad, under
decision of Judge Archibald.
The index to the laws of Florida, prepared
by Chief Justice Randall, will be In print
this week, and will doubtless be eagerly
sought by the bar. It is said to be a very
valuable book.
A dispatch received in Jacksonville a few
days ago announces that Judge Bradley has
appointed Mr. Alien receiver of the Jack
sonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad
Mr. Allen, who is a civil engineer and
formerly manager of the Mobile and New
Orleans Railroad, is one of the trustees of
the foreign bondholders, and is spoken of as
peculiarly well qualified for the position to
which he has been assigned.
Dr. A. 8. Baldwin, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Vital Statistics of the Board of
Health, reports the whole number of
deaths in Jacksonville in seven months last
past as 100—of residents of the city 50, of
non-residents 45, of those whose residence
was unknown 5. Population of the city of
Jacksonville, 10,000 aud over; for the seven
months the death rate has not exceeded 10
to 1,000.
A prisoner convicted of an attempt at
rape has been sent to the penitentiary from
fferson county for twenty years. Two
others wont up for ten years each for bur
glary.
A fig tree two feet and a half high and
five months old, growing in tho yard of Col.
John M. Pon*, of LiVilla, has yielded this
season eleven figs about tho size of
pigeon’s egg.
Judge liruuson is in Jacksonville hearing
a writ of injunction, asked by Messrs. G.
Hunter & Son against the commissioners of
Duval county, restraining them from cx
tending Bay street to Commodore Point.
Tho war on the Jacksonville canines goes
on vigorously. The Su?i and Press of Satur
day says: “Fifteen moro dogs met their
fate last night and were found dead this
morning.”
The Commissioners of Columbia county
have resigned in a body. The causo of
their resignation is said to have been the
complaint of some of Columbia’s citizens
against them for not postponing the collec
tion of the taxes of 1875 and 1876. They
were denounced on this account.
Two yoiiDg negro boys who wero iu the
woods uear Mr. Cuuuingham’s, a few miles
from Leesburg, discovered an alligator nest
containing seventy young ’gators about
eight or ten inches in length. They atODce
procured pine knots and determined to ex
terminate t.be last one of them. They ad
vanced upon the den of ugly little fellows
and the slaughter commenced. Iu tho
midst of the carnage the mother of the
young ’gator9 made her appearance, and to
say tho boys were scared would not express
one-half. The boys made off in the direc
tion of Mr. Cunningham’s field, and the old
’gator followed, but she soon found her
home in the swamp, while the boys sought
safety iu the corn field. You will never
hear of these boys “fooling” with ’gators
again.
A Washington dispatch to the Courier-
Journal says it the arrangements now ma
turing for a through Southern mail to
Havana are completed, the New York mail
will run down to Cedar Keys, thence by
steamship to Key West, thence for the oceau
postage by steamship to Havana. The Post
Office Department to-day received a dispatch
from D. L. Yulee, President of the Atlantic,
Gulf and West India Railroad, at Fernan
dina, saying that a fast and continuous train
can be arranged to Cedar Keys twice weekly
for tbe Key West and Havana mail, when
ever desired by the department. Assistant
Postmaster General Brady has sent word
that when the railroad schedule at the lower
end of the line is brought np in speed the
proposition will be favorably considered.
This change will make a gaiu of twenty-five
hours, and it is thought will divert a por
tion of the Western mails for Havana, now
going by tbe way of New Orleans.
Jacksonville Sun and Press: “Six little
ragamuffins, the eldest uot more than twelve
‘years of age, tied together by threes, have
been at work upon Bay street during the
day, under charge of Officer Goss. They
were a source of amusement to paseers-by.
Of course, their work amounted to noth
ing.”
A Lake City correspondent of the Jack
sonville Sun and Press says: “Columbia
owes a heavy Loaded debt, given to aid in
building tbe Central Road. They have
paid, we believe, only about twenty-Dine
thousand dollars on account of bonds, aud
since they feel that they have been swindled
out of all their stock, there Is a determina
tion among the people not to pay the ‘rail
road tax.’ Judge Bryson, who owns a large
amount of these railroad bonds, ha9 ordered
the County Commissioners to levy the tax
and have it collected. This has not been
done, and, we understand, the ire of the
Judge is considerably above the boiling
point, and he vows that he will send the
Commissioners to jail if they don’t havo the
tax collected.”
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
Thlriv-Fifth Dai’s Proceeding*—.Hotion*
to Reconsider Voted Down— %ltto Addi
tional Sections to the Report—The Bill
of Kiclit* Perfected in Section Twenty-
One — Irrevocable Rights Not to be
Disturbed—Longer Dai y Session* and
Harder Work.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Guinea Grass in Florida.
Mr. K. S. McEiven writes to the
Weekly News from Fort Mason, Orange
county, Fla., enclosing some specimens
cf a grass, desiring to know what it is,
whether safe to plant it, etc. From the
best lights before us we make it out to
be what is called in Georgia Guinea grass
{sorghum halapense). In some of its
varieties, it is native to the South, but
that introduced is from Africa. On rich,
dry ground it grows to tbe height
of six or eight feet, and may
be cat at three or four feet,
making excellent hay. Dr. Bachman, of
South Carolina, says the Journal and
Farmer, considered it a stock sustaining
plant far superior to any other grown in
the South. A farmer in Arkansas con
firms this testimony after seven years’
experience. In Georgia it has many
frieuds and is certainly gaining ground,
although it has here been considered a
pest for many years. It has produced
five or six tons of hay per acre, and sold
in one experiment for thirty dollars per
ton. Mr. Codrington, of Florida,
considers its success in that
State as now established, and
that it will make Florida the greatest
grazing State in the Union. The Guinea
grass has a creeping, fleshy root, of which
hogs are said to be very fond, and upon
which they thrive. It is also represented
to be like "the Bermuda—ODce in posses
sion of the soil acknowledges no order of
ejectment.
It is therefore not very safe to plant it
on iand yon do not wish it permanently
to occupy, unless indeed, yon are prepar
ed to fight it as some of the Georgians
fight Bermuda grass. B.
The Prince of Wales has been analyzed.
He is the thirty-third great-grandson of
King Alfred the Great. The connection
with Adam will be forwarded when
found.
Atlanta, August 20.—The convention
at 8:30 o’clock was called to order by the
President, Hon. Chas. J. Jenkins, of the
Eighteenth district.
Prayer was offered by Kev. T. G.
Underwood, of the Thirty-first district,
after which the minutes were read by
Assistant Secretary Mark A. Hardin, and
the Vice President, Gen. A. K. Lawton,
took the chair.
Under a suspension of the rules, Hon.
B. W. Sanford, cf the Twenty-third dis
trict, offered a resolution fixing the hours
of meeting and adjourning at 8:30 and 1
o’clock, and 3 to G o’clock, but it was
finally amended and adopted to 8 to 1
o’clock, and 0:30 to 7:30 p. m., ty a large
vote.
Gen. Robert Toombs, of the Twenty-
ninth district, asked for a reconsideration
of the action of Saturday, by which the
sixth section of his article was stricken
out, and supported his motion in a few
pertinent remarks.
Judge Augustus Reese, of the Twenty-
l rf K t li n J IN — r I ’ — _ z
eighth district, replied to Gen. Toombs in
an i rgument showing the injury that
would be done to the future growth of
the manufacturing aud mining interests
of Georgia by the adoption of this sec
tion.
Dr. JR. B. Nisbet, of the Twenty-eighth
district, said the subject had been fully
and fairly discussed, and that the con
vention had acted upon it in a most de
cided manner. He would, therefore, in
view of the more important matters still
to be discussed, move to table the mo
tion of the gentleman from Wilkes. This
motion prevailed by a rising vote of 85
yeas to 40 nays, but General Toombs
asked for a call of the roll, which changed
the vote to 101 yeas to 58 nays, and set
tled the question of reconsideration.
Judge L. H. Featherstone, of the Thir
ty-sixth district, called for a reconsidera
tion of the action which adopted the ad
ditional paragraph offered by Colonel J.
W. ltobertson, of tbe Thirty-fifth dis
trict, which forbids the payment of
“rebates” by railroads. Judge Feather-
stone argued that the matter was a purely
legislative oue, and should not be en
grafted in the constitution of the State.
Colonel Robertson replied in some
strong points in favor of his paragraph,
showing the necessity for its adoption,
and moved to table the motion for recon
sideration, which was carried by a vote
of one hundred and eight yeas to twent}*-
uine nays.
Hon. J. R. Brown, of the Thirty-ninth
district, offered an additional section to
the legislative report, but several mem-
bers, including Col. J. L. Seward, of the
Seventh district,and Hon. J. A. Hunt, of
the Twenty-second district, opposed its
introduction, on a point cf order, claim
ing that it was too late to add to that re
port, which, they asserted, had already
been finally adopted.
This proposed section provides that no
State, county or city official shall
receive more than ^2,000 per annum
for a salary, any larger sums iu
fees, perquisites, etc., to be paid into
the State, county or city treasury. But
after some discussion the section was re
jected by a vote of 83 nays to 53 yeas.
Capt. J. M. Guerard, of the First dis
trict, called attention to an omission in
paragraph first of section four of the
legislative report, which leaves the State
for several months in 1879 without a
Legislature. To supply this omission he
offered an amendment in these words,
which was adopted: “To serve until
their successors shall be elected.”
lion. F. D. Dismuke, of the Twenty-
sixth district, desired to add a new sec
tion regulating the legal rate of interest
in this State at eight per cent., but the
convention declined to receive the section
by a large majority.
Hon. Geo. F. Pierce, Jr., of the Twen
tieth district, gave notice that, afler
consultation with the friends of Atlanta,
he had concluded to postpone action on
the capital question until e’even o’clock
to-momw morning, at which time it
would be taken up and finally disposed
of by the convention.
On motion of Hon. J. D. Mathews, of
the Thirtieth district, the bill of rights
was taken from the table for the purpose
of perfecting section twenty-six (origi
nal number) of that report, final action
on which w'as postponed until the legis
lative report should bo adopted. The
section reads:
No bill of attainder, ex post facto
law, or any law impairing the obligations
of contracts, or any law making any irre
vocable grant of special privileges or im
munities, shall be passed.”
Colonel T. G. Lawson, of the Twenty-
eighth district, offered an amendment to
strike out “special privileges and immu
nities,” and insert the words “exemption
from taxation,” which he advocated in a
few practical suggestions.
CoL Seward replied in a stirring speech
in favor of the original section, and grew
quite eloquent in his appeal to the con
vention to support his views on the sub
ject.
Mr. Mathews desired to substitute for
Col. Lawson’s amendment the following
words: “Or any law granting exemp
tions from taxation, except where it is
otherwise provided in this constitution,”
which Col. Lawson accepted.
Gen. Toombs then offered a substitute,
providing that all irrevocable grants, etc ,
in the future, shall be first acted upon by
a vote of the whole people of Georgia.
Hon. J. A. Davis, of the Tenth dis
trict, replied to this proposition, and ex
plained the expense and inconvenience rf
such a course, and closed his remarks
with a call for the previous question,
which call was sustained.
Previous to this call, however, Col. P.
L. Mynatt, of the Thirry-fifth district,
made a strong speech against the origi
nal section, and was followed by Hon.
Joshua Hill, of the Twenty-eighth dis
trict, in a similar argument.
Capt. J. M. Guerard, of the First dis
trict, could not fully endorse the original
section, but was opposed to “perpetual'
grants, which word he proposed to sub
stitute for “irrevocable.” He could not
favor giving a thirty years’ grant, that
might be revoked at the pleasure of any
Legislature.
Mr. Davis’ call for the previous ques
tion was now in order, and the substitute
of Gen. Toombs was tabled by a rising
vote of 92 nays to 49 yeas, and on a call
of the roll the yeas were G4 and the nays
104.
Tbe amendment of Col. Lawson, as
amended by Mr. Mathews, was now
voted upon, and the result was 78 yeas to
“1 nays. Gen. Toombs asked for a call
of the roll, which changed the vote to
85 yeas and 80 nays, thus defeating the
amendment.
The original section was now in order,
and on motion of Hon. Paul C. Hudson,
of the Twenty-ninth district, the roll
was called, and the section, without
amendment, adopted by a vote of 91
yeas to 78 nays.
Captain Guerard now proposed to
amend seotion thirteenth, that the writ
of luibeas corpus may be suspended in
time of rebellion or invasion, if the pub
lic safety shall require. Gen. Toombs
objected to any further amendments, and
was sustained by the convention.
Ex Attorney-General N. J. Hammond,
Gf the Thirty-fifth district, then pro
posed an additional seotion, to provide
that m revoking grants no injury shall be
done to corporators or creditors.
General Toombs again declared that
all amendments and substitutes were now
out of order, as the reports to be
amended had already been adopted.
Vice President Lawton decided other
wise, and General Toombs appealed from
the decision, but Mr. Hudson moved to
table the section offered by Mr. Ham
mond, and the motion was carried by a
rising vote of 90 yeas to 00 nays. The
call of the roll being demanded, the final
result was 93 yeas to 78 nays.
The fight over this proposed section
was short, sharp and spicy, as it was the
last chance to modify the severity of Gen.
Toombs’ section in regard to irrevocable
rights. As I wrote at the time recon
sideration was gran'ed (over ten days
a 8°)» there were only five votes to be
gained by Gen. Toombs to recarry his
original section, and these he easily gained
this morning.
A3 soon as Mr. Hammond’s section was
tabled, Gen. Toombs moved to adopt the
bill of rights as a whole, and called the
previous question, which was sustained
aud the report adopted, as was also the
report on the Legislative Department,
including Gen. Toombs’ separate article.
Hon. R. D. Render, of the Thirty-
sixth district, called up the report of the
Committee on Homestead and Exemp
tions, but was opposed by Mr. Mathews
and by Colonel Porter Ingram, of the
Twenty-fourth district.
The convention supported the call of
Mr. Render, and section first was read.
Rev. P. W. Edge, of the Twenty-first
district, moved to strike out “sixteen
hundred” and insert “three thousand”
dollars, and supported his motion in an
earnest appeal in behalf of the families
for whose benefit this section is to be
adopted.
The hour of adjournment (one o’clock)
was reached during Rev. Mr. Edge’s
speech, and the convention adjourned to
3:30 o’clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Vice President Lawton called the con
vention to order at 3:30 o’clock and Rev.
Mr. Edge concluded his remarks on the
homestead question.
Mr. Hudson, of the Twenty-ninth
district, obtained consent to introduce a
resolution that no member’s time for
speaking shall be extended longer than
ten minutes, which, after some discus
sion, was adopted.
Hon. Pope Barrow, of the Twenty-
seventh district, also offered a resolution
to pay the pages and porters $1 50 per
day, but it was tabled by 77 yeas to 40
nay a.
Mr. Mathews, of the Thirtieth district,
offered an amendment to strike out “not
to exceed in value in the aggregate,”
and iusert the words, “to the value of
the aggregate ot” sixteen hundred dol
lars.
Col. E. C. Greer, of the Twenty-first
district, replied to Rev. Mr. Edge, of his
district, and declared that a small home
stead was what was needed, and he should
favor one of $1,500, properly set aside,
without injustice to creditors.
Hon. T. J. Simmons, of the Twenty-
second district, moved that action on the
first section be postponed until the third
section, in regard to a waiver, shall havo
been acted upon, but the motion was
tabled by 00 nays to 53 yeas.
Hon. B. E. Crane, of the Thirty-fifth
district, offered an amendment, which
names certain articles of household fur
niture and farming utensils, providing for
a very irnail exemption. As a merchant,
he had seen the evils of large homesteads
and liberal exemptions, and thought they
covered a largo amount of rascality.
Col. Greer moved to table the amend
ment of Rev. Mr. Edge, which motion
prevailed by a vote of 119 yeas to 39
nays.
Hon. John T. Logino, of the Thirty-
sixth district, moved to strike out
“$1,GOO,” and insert “$800,’’"and a mo
tion to lay this proposition on the table
was carried by 112 yeas to 41 nays.
Elder J. H. Respass, of the Thirteenth
district, then moved to strike out
“$1,000,” and insert “$000,” but, on
motion, his proposed amendment was
tabled by a large majority.
Mr. Mathews’ amendment was now
called up, and Colonel P. L. Mynatt, of
the Thirty-fifth district, opposed it in a
strong speech, in which he showed that
creditors have some rights that the law
making powers should respect. Only
those who are in debt need a homestead.
It is simply a question as to how much
property should be covered up from
creditors. Give a comfortable homestead,
but nothing more.
Hon. J. R. Brown, of the Thirty-ninth
district, was opposed to a homestead of
$1,000 or $3,000, as such a homestead
could not be called a humane provision to
protect helpless women and children. He
then proceeded to show that many credi -
tors are poorer than the debtors, and
under a large homestead would be at the
mercy of unprincipled men. His re
marks were frequently applauded.
Mr. Mathews explained that he simply
desired to fix the homestead in the con
stitution, where it has been for the past
nine years, rather than allow it to be
come the creature of statutory law. This
was the object of his amendment, and
he hoped that it would be adopted for
the protection of those who need the
benefit of a prudent and proper home
stead.
Dr. R. B. Nisbet, of the Twenty-eighth
district, replied to Mr. Brown in a speech
of great earnestness and pungency ; de
nied the force of his arguments, and
claimed that a small homestead was not
the humane thing that he would have it
appear. The remarks of Dr. N. were also
applauded.
Rev. T. B. Thorpe, D.D., of the Twen
ty-third district, sayl he came from a
section that desired a large homestead,
but he had his own views on the subject.
He favored no homestead at all, but if
there must be one he would confine it to
fine hundred dollars. All homesteads and
exemptions, in his opinion, stood bet ween
the debtor and creditor.
Hon. George F. Pierce, Jr., called the
previous question, and the amendment
of Mr. Mathews was adopted by 81 yeas
to 04 nays, and Mr. Crane’s amendment
was voted down by a large m jority. The
vote was then taken on striking out six
teen hundred dollars, and resulted in 70
nays to 09 yeas, so that amount remained,
and the first section was then adopted by
a vote of 91 yeas to 53 nays.
Gen. Eli Warren, of the Twen ty-third
district, presented a lengthy ordinance,
reciting such stock, lands, household
furniture and farming utensils as
he would have exempted; also, such
property as ho would exempt for a resi
dent of a town or city. (This was read
simply for information and was not acted
upon.)
Elder Respass offered an amendment
restricting improvements on a homestead
to sixteen hundred dollars, but on motion,
his amendment was laid on the table and
the section adopted without amendment.
Judge Franklin Chambers, of the
Tweniy-first district, offered the following
as an additional section, but it was voted
down :
“ The homestead of realty and exemp
tion of personalty, when set apart to the
head of a family, as hereinafter pro -
vided, shall vest in fee simple estate in
the heirs at law of the applicant therefor
at the death of the said applicant or head
of the family.”
The third section was then read, and
several amendments offered—one by
Judge George F. Bristow, of the Nine
teenth district, to strike out the words
“ with the consent of his wife, if any,
to be made in writing, and attested by
two witnesses.”
Hon. Francis Fontaine, of the Twenty-
fifth district, offered a lengthy substitute,
forbidding a waiver of the homestead,
which he supported in a very ear
nest and well prepared speech
on the subject. His substitute,
on motion of Mr. Pierce, was tabled by a
vote of 114 yeas to 32 nays.
The previous question was now called,
amidst eome confusion and motions to
adjourn, and was sustained by a rising
vote of 78 yeas to 74 nays. The call
of the roll was demanded, but on motion
of General Toombs (itbeing 0:20 o’clock)
the convention adjourned to 8 o’clock to
morrow morning, when the fight for a
smaller homestead and no waiver will be
renewed with increased vigor.
CoL L. N. Trammell, of the Forty-
third district, presided during the heated
term of the debate, and by his rare skill
and steady nerve kept the various amend
ments aud substitutes from getting into
a confused state. Ambitious and per
sistent members failed to move hjni from
the line of duty by their varied techni
calities and dilatory motions.
IMPORTANT CORRECTIONS.
The “bill of rights,” as perfected to
day, has this section, which was post
poned for final action, when the other
sections were adopted:
“20. No bill of attainder, ex post facto
law, retractive law, or any law impairing
the obligations of contracts, or any law
making any irrevocable grant of special
privileges or immunities,shall be passed
The following corrections should also
b? made in the “Legislative report,” to
have it comform to fin^J action of the
convention.
section u.
Par. 40. The General Assembly may
change these districts after each census
of the United States; provided, that
neither the number of districts nor the
number of Senators from each district
shall be increased.
section ra.
Par. 1. The House of Representatives
shall consist of one hundred and seventy
five Representatives, apportioned among
the several counties, as follows, to wit
To the six counties having the largest
population, viz: Chatham, Richmond
Burke, Houston, Bibb and Fulton, thre6
Representatives each; to the twenty-six
counties having the next largest popula
tion, viz: Bartow, Coweta, Decatur
Floyd, Greene, Gwinnett, Hancock, Har
ris, Jefferson, Jackson, Meriwether, Ma
con, Monroe, Muscogee, Newton, Stew
art, Sumter, Thomas, Troup, Washing
ton, Carroll, Cobb, Dougherty, Ogle
thorpe, Talbot and Wilkes, two Repre
sen tatives each; and to the remaining one
hundred aud five counties one Represen
tative each.
Par. 2. The above apportionment shall
be changed by the General Assembly at
its first session, after each census taken
by the United States Government, so as
to give to the six counties having the
largest population three members each
and the twenty-six counties having the
next largest population two members
each; but in no event shall the aggregate
number of Representatives be increased
SECTION IV.
Par. 1. The members of the General
Assembly shall be elec led for two years,
and serve uDtil their successors shall be
elected. • Chatham.
PUBLIC MEETING IN HERNANDO
COUNTY.
GRANTISM
ILLUSTRATED
FRIENDS.
BY
Ful*e Statement* Corrected—Resolution
Adopted.
A meeting of the citizens of Hernando
county convened in tho court house in
BrooksvillQ on Saturday, August 11’h
1877,to take into consideration the various
false and slanderous publications which
had been made in relation to the late
disturbances in said county, and was well
attended by persons from every section of
the county.
The meeting was duly organized by
electing Colonel A. S. Mann Chairman
and T. J. Cook Secretary.
On motion of Dr. J. T. Lowry, the
newspaper articles were read by the
secretary, and CoL Mann stated the ob
ject of tho meeting in a few appropriate
remarks.
CoL S. C. DaBruhl called the attention
of the meeting to an article written by
CoL T. S. Coogler and published in the
Jacksonville Sun and Press, and it was
unanimously declared by the meeting
that said article met their approval and
endorsement.
CoL Coogler addressed the meeting in
an able manner, seggesting the unfair
ness os the Tampa Tribune and Ocala
Banner in making false statements cal
culated to redound to the injury of our
county.
On motion of W. J. Mickler, a com
mittee of twenty was appointed by the
chair to draft resolutions to be submitted
to the meeting. The following commit
tee was appointed: S. C. De Bruhl, C. Q.
Nevitt, T. S. Coogler, David Hope, W. R.
Cray, Wm. Hope, W. A. Smith, John H.
Gold, S. E. Hope, W. Mickler, Thomas
Pinkston, J. J. Pyles, Wm. J. Baker, H.
C. Tucker, Henry Turner, Henry Taylor,
(colored), George Geiger (colored), Cato
Mills (colored), Isaac Scriven (colored),
Daniel Riggans (colored).
After retiring to consider the matter
entrusted to them, the committee re
turned and presented the following pre
amble and resolutions, through their
chairman, CoL S. C. De Bruhl:
Whereas, There have been published
in different papers of the State articles
aspersing the character of some of the
citizens of Hernando county, and derog.
tory to the fair fame of the county, which
articles were based upon gross misrepre
sentations and falsifications of the facts
involved in the difficulty following the
intermarriage of a negro man and white
woman, and the killing of Arthur St.
Clair and Henry Loyd, which publica
tions, if allowed to pass without contra
diction, are calculated to injure both the
county as a whole and also individual citi
zens thereof, the citizens of Hernando
county deem it an important duty to ex
press in public meeting their sentiments
with regard to these publications; there
fore,
liesoloed, That the assertion in the
Ocala Banner that the gentlemen who
were engaged in the affair at the house of
Dave James—the negro who married the
white woman—went there in pursuance
of a predetermined purpose to run said
parties out of the county, is false in fact,
and was evidently based upon a gross and
calumnious misrepresentation of the facts
of the case.
Resolved, That the following extract
from an editorial in the Sunland Tri
bune^ a paper published in Tampa—with
regard to the killing of St. Clair and
Loyd: “We regret to learn that on ac
count of the lawlessness many of the best
citizens of the county would leave it if
they could only dispose of their landed
interest, and that few men are to
be found in the neighborhood of
Brooksville who have the moral
courage to express their convictions
freely und openly about this murder”—is
false from beginning to end, and a
calumny upon the citizens of this
county.
Resolved.\ That we heartily approve
and endorse, word aud letter, the com
munication of Colonel T. S. Coogler,
bearing date Brooksville, Fla., July 27,
1877, and published in the Jacksonville
Sun and Press of August 7, 1877.
Resolved, That the criminal records of
Hernando, aud the general character of
her citizens, will compare favorably with
that of any county in the State, and that
we challenge such comparison.
Resolved, That the Savannah News,
Tallahassee Floridian and Tampa Guar
dian be requested to publish these resolu
tions.
These resolutions were unanimously
adopted, and the meeting, after listen
ing to several good speeches by Cols. De
Bruhl, Mann and others, adjourned.
T. J. Cook, Secretary.
Suborning Perjury to Save Bubrork—Or
der* from (be White Ilou*e.
[From the Cincinnati Gazette (Bad.)]
Rye Beach, August 11.—Everist,
gauger, who, it was discovered, had been
a witness to the mailing of money by
Joyce to Babcock and Avery m Washing
ton, had left the country, and it was ex
pected by the defence that he would
remain absent until after the trial. He
was most respectably connected, and
finally, a short time before the case was
called, he was induced to return and ap
pear as a witness. When he arrived m
the country those engaged in preparing
the government case for trial met him in
Philadelphia and ascertained what his
testimony would be.
His statement, which he afterward
made on the staud, was to the effect that
on a certain occasion he had been sent by
Joyce to the bank to exchange a $14000
bill for two of $500 each; that Joyce had
then in his presence enclosed one of these
bills in an envelope addressed to Avery
and the other in one addressed to Bab
cock; that while he had actually f-een the
note enclosed in the Avery envelope, he
had only seen Joyce’s motions as enclosing
the other in the Babcock envelope, and did
not happen to follow a note into the let
ter with his eyes. According to his
statement both envelopes were then
dropped into a street letter box near
Joyce’s office. This evidence was deemed
very important by all engaged in preparing
the government’s case, and a strong effort
was made by all of them to induce Secre
tary Bristow not to commnnicate its
purport to President Grant. In spite of
all the false stories which gained curren
cy during the trial, and which are still
current in some quarters, to the effect
that Secretary Bristow was conspiring
through the aid of these trials to break
down the personal and official family of
the President, it is true that up to the
time mentioned he had regularly and
promptly informed the President of
every item of evidence affecting either
his secretary or his personal friends in
St. Louis. As regularly and as promptly
all this information had been given by
the President to Babcock, and through
him, of course, it at once found its way
to the counsel for the defence.
So when this important evidence of
Everist’s, showing the direct payment of
money to tbe President’s secretary, and
to the Chief Clerk of the Treasuiy De
partment, came into the possession of
the government lawyers and the officials
of the department, a concerted attempt
was made to prevail upon Gen. Bristow
to withhold all information in regard to
Everist from the President. He met all
their arguments with the statement that
while he was well aware that the Presi
dent’s belief in Bibcock’s innocence was
constantly sacrificing the case of the
government against the whisky thieves,
still, as a Cabinet officer, his first duty
was to the President, and if the case was
lost through its betrayal to the defence,
the responsibility would rest with Gen.
Grant.
And so the Secretary made known the
new evidence which had been discovered,
and in less than twenty minutes after ii
had been communicated at tho White
House, Gen. Babcock appeared at the
room of Solicitor Bluford Wilson to
make inquiries in regard to Everist’s
statement and his whereabouts.
The appearance of Everist was the
causo cf great anxiety among the mem
bers of the ring, and when the nature of
the evidenca he would give became
known to them they were in great con
sternation. It seems to have been recog
nized at once as a case demanding the
services of Moore. He was then on duty
about the custom house in Baltimore"
He came to Washington without leave,
and it was arranged that he should go to
St. Louis and meet the
Vnwk
If victory at the polls in the coming
| elections in France he on the side of the
lonqest purses, ii is likely to gravitate to-
I wards the Republicans, who are said to
lie pursc-hoiders in the coming contest,
j M. Menler. whose French chocolate we
enjoyed at the Centennial, and who is
said to make in trade half a million dol
lars a year, comes forward with a sub
scription of eight thousand pounds—net
of chocolate—bat money—forty thou
sand dollars—and other rich manu
facturers are ready with their coin. The
Bonapartists, as the party always on the
lookout for chances, are said to be poor
in the rank and file, and except the help
that comes from Chiselhnrat, where the
ex-Empress holds her English Court, and
the few remaining leaders of the Imperial
party, who made fortunes under the
stock operations of the empire, can connt
on little of the sinews of war.
The Prince Imperial is a very young
man, and shows his youth in tbe order
that Baron Ilaussmann shall contest the
claims of Prince Napoleon as candidate
from Ajaccio. Baron Hanssmann’s name
is associated with the magnificence of the
new boulevards in Paris aud with uutoid
extravagance in their construction, while
Plon-pon, although not much of a soldier,
has courage and ability in a civic capa
city that give solid snbstance to his
position. The Orleans party are credited
as having the backing of the Rothschilds,
bnt this is rather questionable. There
are but few moneyed men in its ranks.
So long as the army remains under the
control of General Berthanld, the present
Minister of War, there is little danger of
its being used in a coup d'etat, so that the
Bonaparttst plans of M. Fonrton, how
ever the Marshal President may be in
clined to favor them, have a countercheck
in the Cabinet itseif.
In the northeastern part of France,
where the German invasion left its heav
ily scored marks, the Republican party
is strong. It is feared there that the
triumph of the Marshal would be the sig
nal for war on behalf of the Ultramon
tane party, with Italy or Germany.
Eastern France, at least, has had enough
of war and indemnity; the Marshal is
no hero in that neighborhood where the
defeat at Woerth is still nnforgotten. M.
Thiers is the idol of that region, as be is
the present inspiration of the Republican
party in France.
Madame Thiers and Mademoiselle
Dssne, her sister, they say, watch M.
Thiers with intense devotion, to keep
him alive for the hour of his second tri
umph. He husbands his strength in
every way, eats, drinks and sleeps by rule
and measure. "His cafe au Util, his soups,
the wine he wets his lips with, the tem
perature of his apartment, the material
aud the make of his clothes, the elasticity
of his coach springs, everything is pre
pared, selected, arranged and applied by
hands delicately idolatrous, fanatically
attentive.” While M. Thiers takes his
promenade in the carriage, and the Mar
shal is able to take his in the saddle, the
race between the two would seem to be
unequally weighted.
If memory of past waiting and final
triumph can keep M. Thiers in life, he
has plenty of stimulus. “You ought to
be First Minister of France,” said some
one to him, laughing, in his early days,
when the at that time perfectly obscure
young man had delivered a lucid explana
tion of the political situation of the
hour. “Monsieur, I shall be,” was tho
calm reply, that turned the jest into a
prophecy. The Marshal’s own words are
quoted in Paris to-dav: “I owe every
thing to M. Thiers; when he restored mo
to command over the French army I was
only a beaten soldier.” It is probable
that the fortunes of the autumn will give
the Marshal an opportunity to redeem
the debt, and if M. Thiers does not go
beforehand to the Elysian fields, that tho
Palace of the Eiysee, tho French White
House, may again have him as occnpant.
—Public Ledger.
Anothki: Rumob About Schubz.—I
have it from unquestionable authority
that Mr. Schurz is to retire from the
Cabinet at no distant day. He is re
spected for his talents and attainments,
and admired by his associates for his in
dependence of party and devotion to
principle, but it is conceded that he is
greatly lacking in executive ability and
business capacity. Occupying a position
where thc-se qualifications are indispensa
ble for the successful operation of the
diversified multitude of a Hairs immedi
ately under his supervision, his removal
becomes a matter of necessity with the
administration. How soon this will take
place is not known, but it is a settled
fact that such an event will occur; but
the announcement of the acceptance of
his resignation will not be made until the
Secretary of the Interior can be let down
softly and without wound or brnise to
honor or dignity, and “with peace and
harmony prevailing.”—Washington Cor.
Indianapolis Journal.
Everist. As the latter could only swear
to actually seeing the $500 enclosed in
the Avery envelope, and not to actually
following the other five hundred with his
eyes into the Babcock envelope, the de
fence decided to set up the claim that
the Babcock envelope was only a blind to
deceive Everist, and that as a matter of
fact no money was pat into it by Joyce,
leaving the presumption that the latter
had pocketed it.
It was arranged, therefore, that Moore
should swear that the second or third day
after the date fixed by Everist for tbe
mailing of these letters at St. Louis, he
(Moore) happened to be in General Bab
cock’s room at the White House when
Bibcock was opening his mail, and that
the latter, after opening a large envelope
in his presence, called his attention to
tbe curious fact that the envelope in
Joyce’s handwriting contained no writing,
but simply a piece of blank paper.
Moore arrived in St. Louis, and un
folded bis proposed evidence to the coun
sel at work at that end of the line.
These gentlemen, or some of them, wero
also of counsel for Avery. The latter at
once said to Moore that this story was a
very good one so far as Babcock was con
cerned, but that it would surely convict
Avery, since it would establish the fact
hat the mail containing the letters Everist
had described reached Washington, and
tbe presumption would be that Avery re
ceived the letter which Everist swore had
been sent to him with the five hundred
dollars in it.
This made it necessary to adopt a dif
ferent line of defence, and the letter car
rier was found who afterward swore that
on the day Everist claimed that the letters
to Babcock and Avery were dropped into
the street box he, at the request of Joyce,
unlocked the box and gave him back two
letters addressed as described by Everist.
The part that Moore had prepared
himself to play in this matter became
known through the indiscretion of one
Babcock’s counsel in Washington,
who, when the telegraph brought the
report of Everist’s testimony, could not
refrain from telling in Newspaper Row
how complete the defence would be to
his embarrassing evidence. When the
letter carrier was produced instead, the
Washington counsel was greatly non
plussed, but soon ascertained that it was
Avery’s interests that rendered Moore's
proposed perjury unavailable.
Moore left his post without leave to
attend to this business, and sent in
vouchers for his expenses to Louis and
retui n. These were disallowed by Solici
tor Wilson as being irregular, impudent
and outrageous. At a subsequent date,
however, they were paid m pursuance of
orders from the White House, and
thus the government was forced to pay
the expenses of a witness called by the
defence to defeat a most important case.
And further and most disgraceful, the
payment was to a witness who deliberate-
prepared himself with perjury, cloth
ing himself with it as a portion of his
outfit, and while a government officer
charged especially with the detection of
fraud seeking to use it to defeat the gov
ernment in attempts to uncover and
pnnish fraud. No severity of language
can emphasize such facts as these.
H. V. B.
1 he Turkish Commanders,
Abdnl Kerim suffered from a very pain
ful disease, and was very fat. lie also
had an inordinate appetite, and swallow
ed vast masses of food, so that for sev
eral hours daily he was quite unable to
turn to account tbe little activity he pos
sessed. As to his military qualifications,
they could hardly be better summed up
than in the bitter exclamation of the Sal
tan when he heard that the Rushans were
pas-ing the Danube as they liked.
“ What,” said Abdul Hamid, “ the Ser
vians, with a handful of cowardly, half
armed militia, cuu!d keep him out of
Alexinafz for four months, and he, with
every advantage, could not hold my Dan-
a ube line for twenty-four hours.” From
testimony of ^he state of feeling betokened in this
speech the Sultan rallied a little under
Abdul Kerim’s assurance that he had a
plan of defeme, and must be allowed
time to work it ont. When the B dkan
was scaled by the Russian dragoons, the
Sultan’s remark was : “ Plan, plan it
will be plan till the Russians are in Stam-
boul, and then where will the plan be ? ”
Abdul Kerim was removed without delay.
Meheuiet A!i, the present commander-
in-ohief, is of German descent. Born at
Madgeburg, where his farther, named
Detroit, a member of the colony of
French refugees, worked as an artisan in
rather poor circumstances until about
two years ago. He left his native town
when quite a boy with the intention of
becoming a sailor. On one of his voy
ages, whilst his ship was lying at
anchor in Constantinople, young De
troit, afraid of punishment for some
small misdeed, fled Into the town and
hid himself in the konak of a wealthy
pasha, who took such a liking to the
bright boy that he adopted him, and
had him educated by the best tutors in
Stamboul. Mehemet Ali turned Mussul
man, entered the army and was sent to
the military academy at Rankaldi, where
he was graduated with the highest hon
ors. He speaks Turkish and French flu
ently, and, though only about forty six
years of age, has Lad considerable expe
rience. He first came into notice when,
ns Vali of Janina, he purged Thessaly of
brigandage. In the Servian war he had
command of the Novi Bpzrr division, bis
mission being to prevent any junction
between the Servians and the" Montene
grins. Latterly, in command of the same
corps, he has been operating against the
Montenegrins, where there was mere
climbing than fighting to do.
Among the ladies eonspicuons for their
toilets at the Lee monument ball at White
Sulphur Wednesday evening were Miss
Wood, of Washington, who wore a
white lace dress over a lavender satin
train and amethyst jewelry; Miss Tallin
Wood, Washington, white net over white
silk, trimmed with crimson roses, dead
gold ornaments; Miss Kate Pneian.
Memphis, Tennessee, pale blue silk,
point lace overdress, and finances trimm.
ed with wild eglantine roses—ornaments,
pearls ; Mias Marie Lloyd Marshall, Lou
isville, Kentucky, white tarlatan over
white silk, elaborately trimmed with
flowers, diamond jewelry; Miss Marietta
Santini, New Orleans, salmon pink prin
cess dress, overdress of pink grenadine
trimmed in silk and esprays of variegated
crush roses—ornaments, parure of dia
monds; Miss Mattie Belle Shreeve, Lou
isville, Nile green silk a la Marguerite,
looped high on left side over duchess
petticoat, trimmed with moss rosebuds
and beetles; Mrs. Gratton Cabell, Rich
mond, black silk, trimmed with blue silk
fringe and duchess lace—ornaments, dia
monds.
Tuekey’s Amebican Gcstmakebs.—As
yet the Providence Tool Company is at a
standstill in regard to its rifle contract
with Turkey. All the processes of gun
making having been stepped, the nearly
two thousand employes are roaming
around the streets or sailing the broad
waters of the Naragansett, having been
compelled to take a vacation, very much
against their will. Never before since
the Tool Company commenced to make
the rifles for the Ottoman Government,
in 1874, has it been obliged to entirely
suspend work. The works will not be
opened until it has been ascertained
whether Turkey will furnish the funds to
pay for the last lot of rifles made, and
also those contracted to be made, as the
company does not propose to continne
making the rifles if there is to be any
risk attending the payments for them.
At the present time the way out of the
difficulty has not been found.—BosUni
Adoertiser.
The Chinese question is greatly dis -
tressing the English colonies in Australia.
Tne Vice President of the Executive
Council at Queensland has recently writ
ten to the Agent General in London,
expressing strong fears that both the
rights and the civilization of the people
may be compromised, and that their
social and political systems may be im
perilled if, on any plea whatever,
Chinese immigration is forced upon them
against their wishes and their interests.
The people of that portion of Australia
will be the first to feel the change and its
consequences.
Toe Berlin gorilla now on exhibition at
the London Aquarium has been jocularly
christened “Mr. Fongo.” He is the only
gorilla ever brought alive to Europe, and
is still very young, not having entered
upon the period of teething. He eats
farinacious food and fruits, but can eat
beefsteak, drink beer and smoke after the
African fashion, puffing the smoke ont
again through the nostrils. The Specta
tor says the most human thing about him
seems to be a trick of putting everything
in his mouth lik9 a child of a year old. &
A sea monster has been seen (g New
Bedford, Mass. Some yonng women
were out rowing when they espied a
frightful shape come np from the water
quite near their boat. They screamed so
loudly that a host load of bovs wont to
their help. The monster did not appear
to avoid them, but calmly waited for
them to come on. Boldly rowing for
ward they came near enough to get a fair
look at the creature. It was a water-
the creature.