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Savannah. Ga.
Affairs in Georgia.
p r> Wiliiam McLean, a prominent citizen
Hid physician of McDuffie county, died at
^ res ‘ nce > uear Thomson, on Tuesday
la Murray county, it is stated, hands
jnoagh can’t be hired to pick the standing
. a and corn, and yet some people are
expose 1 to immigration.
Him Giddens, who murdered the boy
Jeff in T&.botton, on the premises of Mrs.
G. Little, has been declared a lunatic,
ud wilt be sent to the asylum.
On the plantation of Mr. James Daniel,
jfo miles from Butler, In Taylor county,
yt Saturday morni-g, a colored child,
ibout four years old, who had been left by
jbe mother, caught fire and was burned to
death.
Hr. June Cates, of Butler, while
biDdiing a pistol on Saturday last, disabled
himself from enjoying the Christmas hilar-
be« by accidently shooting himself through
the band.
Tbe hog cholera prevails to a great ex
tent m sime portions of Taylor county,
iome farm- rs having lost their entire stock
of bogs for this and the next season.
In the Supremo Court the sentence of
Gaa Johnson, convicted of murder, was
ifirmed, and Moncrief, who was also con-
ricted of murder, was granted a new trial.
Both of the above cases were from the
Borne circuit, aud are both verdicts against
white men for killing negroes.
George Reynolds has been commissioned
by the Governor Sheriff of Telfair county.
Ibe Atlanta Constitution says: “General
Bobert Toombs is expected in the city in a
few days. The result of the capital vote is
reported highly gratifying to him. 1 ’
A negro named Prince Roberts was
drowned on Monday last In the Altamaha
liver, caused by the tearing up and scatter
ing of a raft of timber which he was
handling.
Tbe total number of arrests by the police
of Atlanta during the past month were two
hundred and thirty-five, one hundred and
seventy-seven being city arrests and fiftv-
leven for State offences.
There are seventeen white and twenty-
nine colored free schools in Snmter counjy.
The First Presb} terian Church of Colum
bus have disbanded their choir and gone
back to the “good old ways” of congrega
tional singing, using a little cabinet organ,
which is placed immediately in front of the
pulpit.
There have been sold in Athens since the
commencement of the season twenty-one
thousand two hundred bales of cotton,
which estimated at an average of five hun
dred pound** ner bag, and a* ten C3ata per
pound, amounts to the snug little sum of
one hundred and six thousand dollars.
The regular meeting of the Directors of
the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company
was held in Augusta on Wednesday. The
declaring a dividend for January was con-
lidered, but action was postponed until next
meetrng. The Port Royal Railroad bonds
were considered and referred to a committee
composed of the resident directors, Messrs.
John P. King, James W. Davies, John Dav:-
aoa, Geo. T. Jackson, 41. P. Stovall, Charles
H. Phiuizy, Josiah Sibley and F. H. Milier,
mtb full power to act. The coupons, amount
ing to $35,000 in gold, and due last May and
November, have not been paid.
The following Justices of the Peace have
been commisbioned by the Governor: J. E.
Manroe for tbe 1,290th district, G. M.,
M.tchell county; M. L. Stribling for tbe
210-b district, G. M., Franklin county; J. H.
Siarr for the lC8:h district, G. M., Spaldiug
counts; G. M. Crabtree for the 960th dis
trict, G. M , Dade county; G. W. Rouse for
the 1,115th district, G. M., Worth county.
The Atlanta Constitution says : “The canse
of temperance is »aiil to bo gaining ground
owing to the abominable Quality of the aver
age whisky.”
The Brunswick Advertiser says : “St. An
drew’s Sound has been visited recently by an
immense school of black fish, some measur
ing as much as forty feet in length. They
tre probably a species of the whale, such as
Turns our coast every winter. These im
mense m 'asters of tbe deep have often been
*en in St. Andrew’s Sound by pilots and
fishermen, and we learn that Mr. Elias
Ciubb, of Cumberland, once captured one of
them.”
The Gardi correspondent of tbe Jesup
Seutiuel says : “Mr. J. T. Strickland bad
the misfortune to have a raft of two hun
dred sticks broken up on the Altamaha, m
what 1- known as the br:ck yard cut, near
C.ark's Bluff. There is a probability of his
saving a portion of it. We are iuformed
that there is a largo raft broken up and
scattered in the Altamaha at a place called
*0. i Hell,’just above the mouth of the Phin
Hollo way.”
The Brunswick Advertiser notices a new
industry that has recently been successfully
op rated : “Messrs. Hays & Sbadman, who
b°Ufht a year ago Cannon’s Point, on St.
Simon's Island,are now manufacturing olive
oil from the fruit of their olive grove. They
have made so far about sixty gallons. 1 his
*rtic:e ia perfectly pure aud unadulterated,
and will eommaud very high figures in the
market.”
The Talbotton Standard says: “Mr. Wm.
Isom was in town last Tuesday with bis
e ?e bandaged. He informed us a few nights
before be wa* knocked down and robbed.
He was on tne public highway about dark
making bis way home, when some oue arose
from behind a stump and dealt him a heavy
blow ou the side of his head with a huge
1 tick ur bludgeon. He dropped senseless to
the earth and lay unconscious for several
boars. When consciousness returned all
i the money be had, being only four dollars
Iftai seventy-five cents, was gone.”
^ The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel says:
“We saw, \esterciay, photographe of tbe
models of the marble statues of Gen. R. E.
I*-e, tjtouewall Jackson, Gen. T. R. R. Cobb,
a private Confederate soldier, to bo
Placed on -the Confederate monument in
tbi* cry. They came from Italy, where the
statues will be made, aud were sent to Mr.
T. iiarkwalter, who has the contract for
erecting the monument. Th*3 photographs
w- r submitted to the committee appointed
by the Ladies’ Memorial Association. Judg
ing irom these photographs the statues
Will b • fine specimens of art. Work on the
monument will be commenced next month,
We understand.”
Th Sumter Republican says : “We re-
to learn that Mrs. Elizabeth Rountl-
free, wife of Mr. A. H. Roundtree, who lives
*b .ur ten miles southwest of Americas,
cam- to her death ia a shocking manner ou
wturday morning, the 8ch instant. Mr.
V " Itree bad left the premises but a short
*hile when his attention was attracted tow trd
Jbe Liuuse ou seeing a deuso smoke issuing
from the roof of the building. On arriving
the house he found tbo body of his wife
olug iu the middle of the floor devoid of
wothiug and badly burned. Mrs. Roundtree
subject to fits, and it is supposed that
®b& bad been attacked with one at the
and either fell in the fire place or her
c *otkes caught fire.”
The Butts County Argus Bays: “On Thurs-
afternoon Mrs. Mayo, wife of James
’, Jr., who resides at Pitman's ferry, od
*he Ocmulgee river, took one of her little
children, a boy four years old, and left her
she left a * note on the table ad-
urea tied to her husband, in which she de-
c Lred an intention to wander away and die
*£ ? ker than return to her husband’s home.
® & yo was absent when his wife left, and,
Mhis return and reading the note, he
‘mniediately mounted his horse and
firmed the whole neighborhood. The
high esteem in which Mrs. Mayo
j® by her neighbors prompted
male and female to join in the
•Garch !, ,r the missing woman. The entire
jfcuuty, fields aud woods were thoroughly
•G»rched, and about eight o’clock Mr. Ik^
■\Uore found Mrs. Mayo coming from behind
»large rock, carrying her little son in her
Mr. Moore approached her a.. 1 beg-
her to return to her house, but as sue
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1877
firmly refused to do so, he carried her to his
own home,where she was joined bv her hus
band shortly after her arrival. Mrs. Mayo
is abou* twenty-three years old, remarkably
good looking, and a great favorite with her
friends and neighbors. Her strange conduct
was attributable to a temporary mental de
rangement from some unknown cause.”
BY WRAP!
Florida Affairs.
The tide of travel Floridaward has set in,
and the St. Augustine Hotel and Magnolia
Hotel, at St. Augustine, will be thrown
open for the reception of guests to-mor
row.
The doctors of Jacksonville say that they
have never seen the city so free from sick
ness as at the present time.
Judge Settle and family are iu Jackson
ville. It is presumed that he will perma
nently settle iu the State on account of hia
judicial duties being now confined to Flori
da. The particular spot where he will locate
the Florida press do not mention.
In DeLand they call them “heavenly mul
let with delicioue roes,” and they are brought
from New Smyrna, where they are so nu
merous that they are caught aod used for
fertilizing purposes. One mullet to a hill
will make three good ears of corn and a nub
bin for the calf.
Mr. T. J. Roberts, of Leon county, has
one hundred and sixty hogs to kill this win
ter, and is happy in the contemplation of an
abundance of meat. When this can be said
of all the farmers in Florida the flush times
will have come without doubt.
Pratt, of the Palatka Herald, is still among
the sighing pines, limpid lakes and undu
lating lands of west Putnam, attending to
the educational interests of the county, and
is now thoroughly convinced that alligators
don’t go io schools.
Mr. R. A. Shine, the popular auctioneer
and cotton warehouseman at Tallahassee,
had the misfortune to break his ankle on
Friday last. The accident occurred daring
an effirt to prevent a heavy body turning on
him.
Why don’t Palatka petition for a custom
house ? Any ship that can cross the St.
John’s river bar, can como up to Palatka.
The general supposition is that the river
gets shoal above Jacksonville, but this is er
roneous.
Col. W. H. Scott drew the premium offered
to the best looking man iu the county at the
Gadsden County Fair, and borne down by
the weight of this honor, he has resigned
the office of County Commissioner, of which
body he was an active and energetic mem
ber.
While fondly feeling the teeth of a saw at
the saw mill of Messrs. Robinson, Barnett
& Co., in Marion county, John Gill, a colored
mao, lost three fingers of his baud. The
wisdom that is learned by such experience
is always before aud with us.
A volunteer cavalry company has been or
ganized at Cotton Plant, Marion county.
The company adopted as a name the “Dick
inson Rifles,” and among other thiugs will
enter the list for the prize at the State Fair.
The Orange County Fruit Growers aud
Farmers’ Association held a meeting at Or-
laudo on the 21st ultimo, when the question
of appointing an immigration agent was
disenssed, and the result will probably be
that Orange county will be represented in
Jacksonville the coming winter by Mr. B.
H. Webster.
The Jacksonville Florida Union says :
‘The river steamers are again coming to
our wharves loaded down with, passengers,
many of whom announce that they have
come for good and all,’ having already pur
chased lands where they intend to locate,
some in oue part of the State and some in
another.”
A tournament club was organized at Quin
cy on Friday last. Sir Knight James A. Col
son was selected President, and Sir Knight
Frank P. May Secretary and Treasurer.
Several resolutions were adopted. Oa Thurs
day, the 27th inst., there will be a grand
tonrnament and bail.
So well pleased are the citizeus of Gads
den county, Quincy particularly, with the
result of the fair held last week, that they
have already commenced the agitation of
the next one, to be held next year, and con
tributions have already been offered. That’s
right; “strike while the iron’s hot.”
A comparison of the tax books of Colum
bia, for 1876 and 1877, shows the following
interesting result: The number of acres of
land returned for 1876 were 299,068, valued
at $494,032. The number returned for 1877
were 335,874, valued at $526,069, an increase
of 36.806 acres. The gross value of all
property for 1876 was $871,601; for 1577,
$917,533, besides an additional list returned
since the books closed, aud not included in
the above amount, of $8,440.
THE MORNING NEWS.
The Quincy Herald says : “Colonel R. L.
Gentry, of the* Savannah Mousing News,
who has atteuded all the fairs m Georgia,
savs ours was as good as he has seen yet.
He thinks old Gadsden. is the banner oouuty
of Florida.”
Tbe Riverside Agricultural Society of
Volusia county, at ira recent regular meet
ing, elected the following officers for the
ensuing year : President, J. G. Oweu; Vice
President, G. W. Lancaster, M. D.; Record
ing Secretary, Nelson R. Scove 1 ; Assistant
Recording Secretary, J. B. Jordan; Corre
sponding Secretary, W. T. BudkDor; Treas
urer, Harrison Jones; Advisory Committee,
M. N. Voorhis, Chairman, O. P. Terry, John
Rich and Chas. A. Miller.
Says the Key West Key of the Gulf: “We
have received a lengthy communication
from Cedar Keys which throws a flood of
light upon the subject of the mail rob
beries. The communication should have
been sent to the Secret Service Division of
tho Post Office Department, as it is
subject matter for that department
and not for us. We have done our
duty as a journalist in calling attention
of the proper government officials to the
scandaloas manner in which our mails were
being violated on tho Cedar Keys route,
and do not propose to devote our time and
energies to the discovery of the guilty
parties; that is essentially the province of
government detectives.”
It coats Leon county five hundred and
eighty-one dollars and eigbty-tnree cents
per month to protect society from the depre
dations and crimes of the vicious. This
amount absorbs over two-thirds of the en
tire five mills gross property tax of the
oonnty, and the Fioridian calling attention
to these facts says: “The question is
forcibly suggested whether some measures
cannot be devised whereby the enormous
burden may be lightened. It is true that
compared with former years there has been
considerable diminution in the expense, bat
the cost is still too great.”
The Tallahassee Floridian has the follow
ing upon the important production, Florida
svrup: “ ‘Falsehoods, like chickens, go
home to roost.’ The business transactions
of men make important impressions npon
the commercial world, both for the present
and future. A spurious article shipped from
any section of country, bearing a first-class
brand, will leave its impression upon the
market for years to come. Florida syrup is
superior to Louisiana molasses, both m pa
rity and chrystalizsbie saccharine. Still in
the market it brings from ten to
twenty-five cents less per gallon. Ibe
reason is two fold. First, the grade of
New Orleans molasses is regular. Second,
the grade of Florida evrup ia not only not
regular, but some years ago a great deal
was shipped that actually soured. A great
many now seek to swell their number of gal
lons by making thin syrup. These facts
have become known to the commercial
world; heDoo the slack demand and low
prices of Florida evrup. The people of
Florida have been shipping various things
for a long time, but they have not yet learn
ed the importance tha 1 . should be attached
to grading, cotton not excepted.”
Dispersing Cbowds at Fibes.—An in
genious but simple mechanical expedient
has been adopted in Glasgow for scatter
ing the crowd that usually assembles at a
fire. Attached to the engine is a small
hose which is under charge of one of
the firemen. He begins operations as if
he were tryiDg to water a small space
around the engine, but he gradually en
larges tbe circle until the retreating
crowd gives ample room. This clear
space is kept open till the police arrive
and form a cordon. Meanwhile the other
operations of the firemen are not im
ceded, as they had been formerly, dariDg
the precious moments at the beginning of
a fire. —'
Noon Telegrams
OFFICIAL DETAILS OF THE FALL
OF PLEVNA.
The Political Situation In France.
A NEW YORK FAILURE.
Ite-Prorogued for the Holidays.
THE BATTLE OP PLEVNA.
London, December 13.—The Russian offi
cial account of the capture of Plevna con
firms the details already telegraphed. It
says the Turks fought like lions. Seven
Pashas were captured. The counting of
trophies and prisoners has not yet been
completed. The Emperor was present at
the thanksgiving service held on site of
the former headquarters of Osmai^asha.
The Rassiane had information three days
in advance of Osman Pasha's intention to
sortie. At seven in the morning Osman
crossed the Vid by two bridges and attacked
the Russian positions with such fury
that they captured eight cannon, and
in a few minntes almost annihilated
the Stberski Grenadier Regiment. The
Turks then found themselves under the fire
of a hundred cannon of tbe Russian second
line, aud were attacked by the Grenadiers,
who resolved to captnre their gang. The
Turks were driven hack after a fifteen min
utes’ bayonet fight, bat continued to fire
from the shelter of the banks of the Vid
until 12:15, when the firing ceased on both
sides, and a quarter of an hour afterwards
Osman sent an envoy to treat for the sur
render. Osman’s wound is in the leg, but
not serious.
THE SITUATION IN FRANCE.
Paris, December 13.—Replying to a depu
tation of Senators and Deputies from the
Department of Vosges aud the city of
Nancy, who represented the depression
of trade, with an entreaty that the
President would place himself in direct
communication with the mo lerate Republi
cans, MacMahon, much moved, declared
that he bad no personal ambition, and was
indifferent alike in regard to the Comte de
Chambord, the Comte de Pans and the
Priuce Imperial, and would main
tain republican institutions until
1830. He assured the deputation that he
was actuated by the best intentions, and
would do nothing that was not dictated by
his conscience and the interests of the
country.
Uncertainty as to the formation of the
Cabinet continues.
A meeting of the Republican Union to-day
reaffirmed the resolution not to vote any
portion of the budget so long as tbe na
tional wishes are not completely satisfied.
A FAILURE.
New York, December 13.—James Leaty,
foreign and domestic dry goods dealer, has
failed. Liabilities $120,000; assets $200,000.
PARLIAMENT BEPBOBOGUED.
London, December 13.—Parliament has
been reproroguod to Januan 17th.
Hammer and Razor.—The St. Michael’s
(Md.) Comet says that last week there was
a festival near that village by colored peo
ple. Allen Green and Kinsey Brooks
were amongst the party. There was also
a colored damsel, to whom it seems Allen
was trying to pay attention, and it also
appears that he was jealous of every one
else upon whom she smiled. Some time
after midnight this girl started home in a
wagon in which were Kinsey Brooks and
others. By some means Brooks’ hat got
knocked off, and he got from the wagon
and went back up th^ road to search for
it. While looking for his hat Allen Green
came up, got between Brooks and the wa
gon, and accused him of taking
off his girl, at the same time
abusing and threatening him, and
finally he drew his oyster-hammer
and struck Brooks some severe blows
upon the front part of his head, badly
bruising and catting him. After having
been struck several times Brooks drew a
razor, and, to use his own words, made
an effort “to cut Allen Green’s head off,”
aud he nearly succeeded. He cut across
the back of Green’s neck a fearful gash,
six inches long and two inches deep.
After being cut Green got a club with
which he struck Brooks a blow on the
head, which knocked him senseless in
the road, where he was left for dead.
Green was brought to town by Daniel
Shadden, who took him to Dr. R. A.
Dodson, and he sewed up the gash, which
he describes as one of the ugliest he ever
saw. He will probably recover. Brooks
revived and was taken home.
Thomas Carlyle, though an iconoclast,
is as reverent a man as lives. In a letter
written in 18G9 to the late Mr. Erskine,
he says: “I was agreeably surprised by
the sight of your handwriting again, so
kind, so welcome ! • The letters are as
firm and honestly distinct as ever—the
mind, too, in spite of its frail environ
ments, as clear, plump-up, calmly expec
tant, as in tbe best day-; right so; so be
it with us all, till we quit this dim so
journ, now grown so lonely to us, and
our change come ? ‘Our Father which art
in Heaveu, Hallowed be Thy name, Thy
will be done;’ what else can we say ? The
other night, in my sleepless tossings
about, which were growing more and
more miserable, these words, that brief
and grand prayer, came strangely into
my mind, with an altogether new empha
sis, as if wri ten and shining for me in
mild, pure splendor, on the black bosom
of the night there; when I, as it were,
read them word by word—with a sudden
check io my imperfect wanderings, with
a sudden softness of composure which
was much unexpected. Not for perhaps
thirty or forty years had I once formerly
repeated that prayer; nay, I never felt
before how intensely the voice of man’s
soul it is; the inmost aspiration of all
that is high and pious in poor human na
ture; right worthy to be recommended
with an ‘After this manner pray ye.’ ”
Took It in Trade.—When Tom Flynn
was the artist of the Open Letter, he
laughed at the idea that there was any
trouble connected with the soliciting of
advertisements.. Said he : “I can get a
page of ‘ads’ in a day.”
It was suggested that he couldn’t get
one “ad” in a week. He canvassed
three days with no result, and on the
fourth came in with a half column dentist
advertisement.
“Pat that in,” he cried triumphantly.
“What did you charge him for that ?”
“Ten dollars.”
“Where’s the cash ?”
“Took it oui; in trade. He agreed to
pull two teeth (spit), bat I only let him
pull one (spit), and h- broke that off and
left a root (spit) in the gum If any of
you fellows want a tooth (spit) pulled, go
to 517 S street, as there’s five (spit)
dollars comiDg to us.”
It was subsequently developed that the
tooth was a sound one.—San Francisco
Argonaut.
John Oothout, of the firm of Daven
port, Oothont & Tracy, iron founders, of
Jersey City, drew seven hundred dollars
from the bank at noon on Saturday to
pay his workmen. While he was sorting
the money near a window, which is
gaarded by a wire screen, a man entered,
struck Mr. Oothout from behind with an
iron bar and escaped with the money.
Mr. Oothout was found on the floor un
conscious, and was removed to his home
in Jersey City. His condition is regarded
as critical.
Christopher Cull, aged thirty-two
years, of No. 14 Carmine street, New
York, committed suicide between eleven
and twelve o’clock Saturday night by
swallowing a dose of strychnine, dying
almost instantly. Despondency at his
destitution was the cause. He had been
employed at No. 147 Fulton street as a
gold and silver plater.
It is interesting to recall at this time
the piophetic words in wh ch old Sam
Johnson foretold the downfall of the
Republican party:
•‘Its fall was destined to a carpet-bag,
A petty larcenist and a scalawag;
It left a name at which mankind grew pale
To point a warrant or adorn a jau.”
ATLANTA GOSSIP.
Weather—Amazements—Texas Emlgra
tien—General News Items-New Ntyle
of Serenade—.Minor Topics—Iti-hop
Hay good— Rev. H. H. Parks—Ex-Gov.
Bullock—Senator M. C. Butler does not
Wave the “Bloody Hand."
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Atlanta, December 12, 1877.—Fine
weather is making everything “lovely
here, and the people seem unnsnally
cheerful.
Amusements of a local character are so
numerous that four or five offer rival at
tractions each night.
Crowds of emigrants left this city yes
terday and to day for Texas, to which
State there seems just now to be a per
fect stampede from this section of Geor
gia.
The last chapters of the “Marable
Family” in the Weekly News, descrip
tive of the “Marable Guards” in the late
war, have created quite a sensation in
North Georgia. The author has made
quite a hit in his first novel.
general news items.
Special orders from the Department of
tbe South have discontinued the military
post at Columbia, S. C.
Ordnance Sergeant J. Barr, by special
order from the War Department, has
been transferred from Fort Morgan, Ala.,
to Fort Clinch, Fernandina, Fla.
The many friends of Rev. J. T. Left-
wich, D. D., pastor of the Central Pres
byterian Church in this city, will be re
joiced to know that his little daughter,
Florence, who has been very dangerously
ill at the Kimball House, is now im
proving, and will probably recover.
The negroes serenaded the successful
candidates the other night, and intro
duced a new feature, one that will readily
commend itself to the religious public.
Iustead of a noisy brass band and a rab
ble of screeching boys, a vocal serenade
was given, the bredrin’ sinking “Nearer
My God to Thee” and “Am I a Soldier of
the Cross,” and similar songs of a sacred
character. The effect can be readily
imagined.
minor topics.
Rev. A. G. Haygood, D. D., President
of Emory College, is a prominent candi
date for Bishop, and will probably be
elected at the General Conference to meet
here in May next.
In view of the fact that the capital
was not removed back to Mil'.edgeville, it
is probable that Bishop Pierce transferred
the Rev. H. H. Parks from that city to
the First Methodist Church of Atlanta to
succeed Rev. Dr. Harrison, so that he
might be a capital preacher as well as a
popular man.
The case of ex Gov. R. B. Bullock was
called up this morning in the FnJton Su
perior Court, and Gen. GartrelJ, the lead
ing counsel, announced that his client
was ready, and had been, for trial, but
Attorney General Ely desired further
postponement on account of absence of
witnesses for the State. Judge McKay
objected in behalf of Bullock, but Judge
Hillyer decided to set the cases down for
Tuesday, January 1.
ABOUT SENATOR BUTLER.
Senator Hoar seems to have made a
very blood-thirsty remark in regard to the
hands of Senator Butler, of South Caro
lina, to which I feel constrained to reply.
My first meeting with Gen. M. C. But
ler was at the Hampton Cavalry reunion
in Augusta a few years ago, and although
an ex-efficer of the Federal army, I \vas
treated by him and his associates with
the greatest cordiality and respect.
When the telegrams startled the coun
try with the terrible recital of the “Ham
burg tragedy,” I was among the first
newspaper correspondents to reach the
spot. From no authentic source could I
gain any facts implicating General Butler
in the bloody work of that terrible night.
When the examination commenced before
“General” Rivers, the colored Justice of
the Peace, I was present, heard all the
testimony and examined all the papers,
and not a witness nor a paper proved that
General Butler was the moving spirit or
leader in the bloody affair. The man
Butler described by the witnesses resem-
bitd your correspondent, while General
Butler is an entirely different looking
man. Not a single witness could iden
tify him, and from my personal know
ledge of the General, aud all the testi
mony in the case, I was well satisfied of
his innocence of the charge made against
him. If, as Senator Hoar says, there is
“blood on his hands,” it did not come
from the Hamburg fight.
Chatham.
OCR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Santa Fe Canal Company,
[Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Waldo, Fla., December 11.—The an
nual stockholders’ meeting of the Santa
Fo Canal Company was held here yester
day. A large number of stockholders
and many other gentlemen, who are
looking this way for investments, were
present, some of whom addressed the
meeting and spoke very encouragingly
of the enterprise. »
The Secretary’s report shows a healthy
state of finances, though more money is
needed to complete the work. It was
thought a dredging machine could
be placed on the lake ready for
work within the next three months. That
being done it would require but a short
time to complete the work. The annual
election took place and resulted in the
choice of George C. Rixford, Elias Earle,
W. K. Cessna, H. Alderman andBenj. B.
Ewing for the Board of Directors; Theo
dore A. Peck, Treasurer; D. S. Place,
Secretary.
After the election a spirit of enthusiasm
seemed to spring up and those present
subscribed in addition to their former
shares of stock seven hundred and
fifty acres of laud, worth at
least eight or ten dollars per acre,
and it is believed that a subscription
of two thousand acres can easily be pro
cured. This would enable the company
to prosecute the work without delay, and
in eight months a steamer would be ply
ing upon the waters of these lakes, and
this would soon become the great popular
resort of pleasure, home and health seek
ers in Florida. D. IS. Place,
Secretary.
The Auburn juryman, W. A Durkee,
who was reported to have eloped with
Cora Youngs after having joined his
eleven colleagues in rendering a verdict
of acquittal on the charge of murder,
has returned to his home and denied the
scandalous accusations that have been
made against him. He says he was re
quested by the Sheriff to take the woman
out of the country so as to give her a
chance to lead a new and respectable life.
His wife, who went to the depot to re
ceive him and his beautiful traveling
companion, but who was so sadly disap
pointed and left in painful suspense for
several days, will perhaps require a more
satisfactory explanation of his long ab
sence.
A Woman on Fire in a Dentist's
Chair.—While Mrs. James Gracy, of 200
Eist Fortieth street, was having her
teeth filled yesterday in the College of
Dentistry in Twenty-third street, her
dress took fire from an alcohol lamp that
was being used. Mr. John Healy, of en
gine company No. 14, who was having a
tooth extracted, sprang from the chair,
stripped off his overcoat and threw it
around the woman, smothering the
flames. The students were too excited
to do anything.—AT. Y. Sun, bth.
The Rev. L S. Kalloch, formerly a Kan
sas politician of unsavory reputation but
now a preacher at San Francisco, has
come oat with a vehement anti-Chinese
pronnneiamento. He thinks the Chinese
are poisoning American society, and
doesn’t want them to come here and take
the bread out of the months of working-
mem
Senator Gordon and the (<eorcln.Haribal-
•hip—The Brunnwick Colleetorship—The
War Cloud on the Kio Grande.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Washington, December 11.—Because
Senator Gordon deemed it his duty to
urge the appointment of a gentleman to
the Marshalship for Georgia who would
be acceptable to the great mass of the
citizens of that State, and who, while ex
ecuting the duties of his office in the let
ter and spirit of the law, would not allow
himself to be used as an instrument of
political persecution, as his pre
decessor had been, there has arisen
a wild howl of disapprobation, and
some asinine prospector for political
mare’s nests has discovered that the
Senator has sold out to the administra
tion. It is also discovered that ex-Marshal
Smyth ia the victim of a Georgia whisky
ring, before whose gigantic dimensions
that little crookedness at St. Louis sinks
into utter insignificance.lt is further dis
covered that the support of the New York
custom house nominations is the first in
stallment of Senator Gordon’s debt to the
administration. Now it is pitiful to see
so brilliant an imagination as was required
to make the above startling discoveries
pan out such a threadbare and transpa
re-»t lie. If it was concocted in party in
terests ir is not very complimentary to
Republican intelligence, foi there is not
a member of that party outside of
lunatic asylum who will credit so clumsy
a canard. The gratuitous insult convey
ed by it to the President and his advisers
has more significance, and brands its ori
ginator as lacking the attributes of com
mon decency. So far as General Gordon
is concerned, it is not necessary to dignify
the statement with a denial; to all who
know him, the utter absurdity of the
slander stands out in relief.
The renomination of Collins to be Col
lector at Brunswick has brought Mr.
Wells to the front again, and he has made
a strong fight against Mr. Collins. From
every indication the struggle will be over
this week, and tbe present incumbent
will receive his quietus by an adverse ro
port from the committee and rejection
by the Senate. Mr. Wells has been work
ing up his side of the case with marked
success, and, as matters stand now, will
undoubtedly be nominated to fill the
vacancy. His confirmation will follow as
a matter of course, as he has a majority
of the committee in his favor, and as a
choice between two Republicans his
selection would have the approval of a
majority of the Georgia delegation.
Just now there is a prospect of finding
an outlet for our stagnant energies in
war with Mexico. There is no
doubt that the army iufluence here
is strongly in favor of adjust! .g the ex
isting-differences through the medium of
force, and then appropriate a slice of
Mexican territory to offset the cost of the
job. Among a number of significant
facts which give a serious cast to the
situation is that on Saturday last im
portant dispatches were received froin
the representative of the United States at
the Mexican capital bearing upon military
operations then progressing there, which
were at once referred to the War Depart
ment, and immediately thereafter Lieu
tenant General Sheridan was noti
fied that it would be advisable
for him to visit Washington and
confer with the government upon
the situation on the Rio Grande. To day
the Secretary of the Navy called upon the
chief of the Bureau of Construction and
Repairs of his department to furnish him
with estimates of the cost of building a
fleet of flat-bottomed boats not to draw
exceeding thirty inches of water, to be
armed with a battery of howitzers, and to
be supplied with suitable defensive upper
works, intended to be used on the Rio
Grande. These straws all go to indicate
a state of active preparation for what is
termed here “possible contingencies.”
There is a strong probability that a
successor for Worthington, Collector of
Customs at Charleston, S. C., will be
Dominated this week. There are several
applicants for the position, and it will be
hard to name the successful oue until the
nomination comes up for discussion in
Cabinet. Dias.
The Story or the Alamo Retold.
[St. Louis Globe-Democrat.]
A few days ago Bishop Pellicer, of the
Catholic Diocese of San Antonio and
West Texas, sold to a Mr. Grenet by far
the most valuable portion of the Alamo
property in the immediate vicinity of the
now flourishing city of San Antonio. The
remainder he has reserved, in order to
give the State of Texas an opportunity
of redeeming a spot made sacred by the
death and blood of her defenders while
struggling with the Mexican tyrant and
ruthless butcher of men, Santa Anna.
Mr. Grenet, it is learned, will apply his
new purchase to purposes of trade and
traffic. A movement will be made in the
next Legislature of Texas to buy up the
whole, if it can be had, and thereupon
erect a magnificent monument to the
memory of the heroes who fell there
over forty years ago.
ted, but not retreating—the Texans ceased
to make or offer resistance. The Mexi-
Adulterated Nilks and Cottons.
The Lyons silk dealers have had tbe
audacity to put great quantities of adul
terated goods on the London market,
and, what is more, have sold them. The
handsome finish and the cheap price of
the deceptive fabrics proved too much
for John Bull’s cupidity. The London
Times, in exposing these frauds, which
are new in their nature and extent,
although the art of doctoring or “dress
ing” silk goods is as old as the silk manu
facture itself, runs over with indignation.
The British public had already begun to
find out, to its cost, that those heavy,
beautiful siiks which-had been bought at
“such a bargain” soon become ugly and
worthless for wear The warnings so s 1-
emnly delivered by the Times, added to
the experience of so many victims in
London society, will make that market
too hot for the crafty Lyonose, and per
haps drive them to try the United States.
Hitherto, we believe, we have not been
honored by their attentions.
It is not good breeding to laugh at an
other person’s misfortunes. But one
cannot help beiDg amused to think that
England—which is the great mistress aud
practitioner of the art of “loading” cot
ton goods for foreign markets—should be
so badly take nin and done for by those im
pudent Frenchu.en. Great Britain is at
this time losing her prestige in China and
India by her addiction to the same class
of swindles. The Manchester Courier,
in a recent article on this subject, tells
home truths when it says “an enor
mous quantity of paste or sizing is put
into the fabric of cotton cloths by our
manufacturers,” and that “cloths which
seem to be as thick as a board become as
limp as damp tissue paper once they are
wetted.” The Chinese found oat the
trick years ago and are now successfully
making their own cotton cloths, and so
are the people of India. If their pro
ducts are not as fine looking as those of
English importation, they are at all
events not one-half plaster of Paris and
paste. But the great peril to England, as
the Liverpool Courier confesses, is not from
the local enterprise of the Chinese and
East Indians, but the keen competition
from the United States. We are not only
enabled to sell cotton goods cheaper than
England—thanks more to our excellent
machinery than to the low price of the
staple and reduced wages—but our cotton
products have the preference all over the
East and in England herself, because our
manufacturers do not cheat in them.
American cottons are free from tbe adul
terations which have made the British
article so notorious throughout the world.
This reputation now tells strongly in our
favor, since the export trade in cotton
goods has become active and we are seek
ing and obtaining markets for the fruitof
our looms in every land which England
once monopolized.—New York Journal of
Commerce.
Fatal Bite of a Spitz Dog.—Allen
Congdon, aged four years, of Westfield,
Mass., died last Friday after three days’
sickness, caused by the bite of a Spitz
dog received six weeks ago. The doctors
pronounce the case one of genuine
hydrophobia, the symptoms being thirst,
irritableness, convulsions on drinking
water, and spasms which produced pain
and finally death.
Mr. Thomas A. Doyle, Mayor of Provi
dence, Rhode Island, can justly claim to
lead any American official in the matter
of re-elections. He has just been elected
Mayor of that city for tbe thirteenth
consecutive time by a large majority.
The Ballard, Ky., News says an assas
sin entered a room at Lovelaceville and
attempted to cut Captain Howie’s throat,
but in the dark he out at the wrong end
and amputated two of the Captain’n toes.
its origin.
In the year 1703 some pious Franciscan
monks of the Apostolic College of Quere-
taro, smitten with a desire of converting
the Indians, founded a “mission” in the
valley of the Rio Grande, under the in
vocation of San Francisco Salano. In
1718 the friars moved their mission, on
account of the scarcity of water, to this
day prevalent in Western Texas, to the
W6st bank of San Pedro creek, about
three-quarters of . a mile from the site of
the present city of San Antonio. Here,
as the savage, and especially the Co-
manches, had become troublesome, it
was put under the protection of the
Spanish military post of San Antonio de
Valero. In 1744 the foundations of
the “Church of the Alamo” were laid,
and from the time of its building to 1783
it was known and conducted as the mis
sion of San Antonio de Valero. On the
2d of January, 1793, the Bishop of Mon
terey directed the good Franciscan Father
Lopez, then in charge of the mission,
and who had labored in the Alamo, to
turn over its records and papers to the
Curate of San Antonio de Bexar. The
following year, Texas being then a por
tion of Mexican territory, Dou Antonio
de Nava, Governor of Chihuahua, ordered
the secularization of all the missions
under his jurisdiction, which extended
likewise over tho province of Texas. In
1825 the Alamo ceased to be a place of
worship altogether.
cans scrambled over the walls, and soon
filled the fort.
the massacre.
Then occurred a hand-to-hand fight,
man to man, followed by a scene of car’
nage and blo^d surpassed in horror by
few of the massacres of history. The
survivors cf Travis’ company fought to
the last. Some clubbed their guns and
did execution on their assailants even
after they were overwhelmed with num
bers. Only a few cried quarter, but were
not heeded. Of the entire garrison all
were put to tho sword, not one surviving,
and all fighting till dispatched by the con
querors.
construction and dimensions.
Built for defense, as well as church pur
poses, the Alamo is of stone. The wails
are three feet thick, and the principal
building, inclosing a court or square, is
sixty yards long'aud forty wide. On the
southeast corner of this fort is the Church
of the Mission proper, built likewise of
stone, the whole reminding the spectator
of the baronial castles of European feudal
ages. On the west and east of the struc
ture were two aceguisa, or ditches, empty
ing into the San Pedro.
SANTA anna’s SUMMONS TO SURRENDER.
The Texan revolt against her Mexican
masters was not yet successful, and Gen.
Santa Anna, then considered the “Napo
leon of the West,” crossed the Rio Grande
with an army, determined to reduce his
rebellious subjects of Texas. He had
formed at Matamoras a junction with
Gen. Urrea, whom he dispatched with a
portion of his forces to occupy San Pa-
trico, on the lower Texan coast. With
the remainder he set out for San Antonio,
then held by Lieutenant-Colonel W. Bar
ret Travis, in command of a handful of
Texans. It was on the 23d of February,
1830, a year most memorable in Texan
annais, that General Santa Anna, with
about one thousand men, approached the
town from the southward. With him
were Generals Ramirez, Sesma and Al
monte. The Texans retired in good
order to the Alamo, leaving the town
the hands of the Mexicins, who
immediately hoisted on a church tower
the blood red flag. Behind the stone
walls of his place of retreat Travis found
hut three bushels of corn, but before he
was totally surrounded captured eighty or
ninety buabels more and some beeves
from the vicinity. The place was sup
plied with water from the aceguisa men
tioned. The Texas commahdei was thus
Hbut up with a force of one hundred and
forty-five men only, and the fortre^ s being
defended but by fourteen pieces of artil
lery. Four of these were mounted on
the walls facing the town, four command
ed the bridge over the San Antonio river,
leading to the Alamo, two on the side
□ext the church, on the eastward; four
were mounted on the northern side.
Such was the state of affairs when the
Mexican General demanded the uncondi
tional surrender of the fort, but the sum
mons was replied to by a shot from the
Texans, Colonel Travis declaring his pur
pose neither to retreat nor surrender. On
the 24th of February Travis sent an ex
press to Colonel Fannin, at Goloid, for
aid, which he never received, and on the
2 ( 5th Santa Anna in person crossed the
San Antonio with the battalion de Caza-
dores, being shortly after joined by the
battalion de Ximines, for the purpose of
erecting a battery in front of the main
gate of the Alamo. But the Texans made
a strong resistance, the fight lasting till
tbe afternoon, and resulting in the killing
of eight Mexicans. The battery, however,
was erected the following night.
THE MEXICANS RE INFORCED.
On the 2Gth the besiegers were rein
forced, Santa Anna’s force anally amount
ing to four thousand men. On the night
of the 26th there was a skirmish with his
cavalry east of the fort, and on the 28th
the enemy erected another battery at an
old mill eight hundred yards distant.
Other batteries were subsequently
equipped, aud bail and shell began to
strike and burst over and among the
doomed, none of whom were harmed
during the early part of the siege. The
Texans, being short of ammunition, fired
but seldom, and on the first of March
sent a twelve-pouud cannon shot into an
old house occupied by Santa Anna as his
headquarters iu the town. At the same
time the beleaguered were rtinforced by
Captain J. W. Smith, of Gonzales, with
thirty-two men, increasing Travis’ effec
tive force to one hundred and eighty-
eight rank and file.
“TAKE CARE OF MY LITTLE BOY !”
One of the last couriers sent out by the
brave, but fated Travis, bore a note to
his friend in the town of Washington,
Texas, saying: “Take care of my little
boy. ' If the country should be saved I
may make him a splendid fortune; but if
the country should be lost and I should
perish, he will have nothing but the
proud recollection that he is the son of
a man who died for his country.”
PREPARATIONS FOR THE ASSAULT.
On the afternoon of the 4th the Mexi
can General called a council of war, and
immediately thereafter began prepara
tions for the assault, his troops then ex
ceeding four thousand men, fresh and
rested, while the little Texas band were
worn down with the fatigue of watch and
the woe of famine.
On the morning of the 6th of March,
1836, the enemy moved to the assault,
and a little past midnight the Mexican
army had surrounded the place. The
infantry were arranged in front with the
cavalry in the rear, who had orders to
cut down those who refused to aid in
taking the fort. The clear stars looked
down upon the broad prairies, and the
dark battalions of the besiegers and the
beleagured, now reduced to tbe last ex
tremity, as if condemning the terrible
scene about to be enacted. The assailants
advanced under a severe fire from the
rifles and ordnance of the Texans. Ihe
gray dawn of the eventful morning
lay over the plains, the town and
the river. The Mexicans advanced
with their scaling ladders and placed
them against the walls, blit the
defenders from within repulsed them with
loss. Again the charge was sounded and
the besiegers advanced to the assault, but
were a second time driven back without
reaching the top of the walls. There
was a dreadful pause, like the lull in the
storm before howiiDg like a thousand
demons over the doomed vessel. And
now Santa Anna’s battalions returned to
the assauit. They scale the walls at last,
attempt to get over, but are forced back
and cut down by those within; but their
places are supplied with fresh men on
each ladder. At length, after a desperate
resistance—killed, cut down and exhaus-
TRAVIS AND CROCKETT.
Among the defenders was the celebra
ted David Crockett, who had gone to
Congress from Tennessee, but come to
aid the Texans in gaining their liberty
and freeing themselves from the Mexican
power. Crockett was killed in the east
ern portion of the fort, while the Texan
commander fell on the western side. It
had been agreed upon by the Texans that
the last survri ing one of their numbei
should fire tho magazine, thus blowing
himself and the enemy inside the walls
to destruction, but Maj. Evans, Master of
Ordnance, while in the act of performing
this last solemn duty, was killed.
The brave Col. Bowie, who had been
for some days sick, was also butchered in
his bed and his body horribly mutilated.
THE DEAD HEAPED UP AND BURNED.
Thus fell the Alamo; thus perished the
one hundred and eighty-eight brave pat
riots who defended it. The sound of the
artillery had died away in the distance of
the plains, and the clear, serene Sabbath
sun had risen alike npon the swell of the
grassy hills in the east and the begrimed
and bloody faces of the slain. Around
and about tha fort, beside the Texans,
there lay five hundred and twenty-one
Mexican corpses, stark, stiff and cold, be
sides an equal number of wounded, an
evidence or the desperate character of the
conflict. The Texan dead were, after
being subjected to numberless indigni
ties, thrown into heaps and burned within
the walls.
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THE SURVIVORS.
Though none of Col. Travis’ band were
left to tell the tale, Mrs. Dickinson, wife
of Lieut. Dickinson, who fell in the de
fense, her child, a negro servant of CoL
Travis, and two Mexican women of San
Antonio de Bexar were the only survivors
of those in the fort. The blood of the
immortal Texan band still stains the
massive walls of the Alamo, and as the
footsteps of the modern visitor rever
berate through its solemn old halls he
almost fancies it the echo of the bloody
strife that sent one hundred and eighty-
eight heroic spirits to their last abode
Sunday morning, March 6, 1836.
A Waif’s Adventures.
[From the Springfield Kepublican.]
A strange, sad story, very intricate and
surprising in its details, and with some
very dramatic features, was unraveled at
the Holyoke police office recently, and it
shows apparently great carelessness in
certain New Hampshire poor authorities
in placing out helpless infants committed
to them. Back in the summer of 1876 a
woman named Scanlin, deserted by her
dissipated husband, and living at Man
chester, New Hampshire, brought a bright
boy baby of eighteen months to the poor-
house, which i3 used for all the paupers
of Hillsboro county, and asked the au
thorities to care for him until she should
be able to provide for him as well as her
self. For some reason the authorities
chose to give the baby, a few months
later, to one Marshall Wait, a slater by
' trade, of Manchester, who signed legal
papers promising to provide for him until
the year 1895, when the boy would be of
age.‘
About the same time Wait’s wife ob
tained a divorce from him, although he
kept the boy and a nine-year-old daugh
ter of his own. Late in the fail he left
the latter with a family iu an adjoining
town and moved to Holyoke with the boy
and a woman whom he called his wife.
They stopped several days at a boarding
house, till one morning the man disap
peared, and, when the woman summoned
help late in the day, she was found to be
sick with small-pox. She was carried to
the pest house and died in a few days,
being buried at the public cost. During
her sickness she never asked for Wait or
the boy. After her death Wait reap
peared, having been sto’pping at his
brother’s house in the city all the time,
and gave the boy away to a kind-hearted
family who had two obildren of their
own. He then left town, having first
taken pains to write to the woman’s
friends in Maine tr at he grieved much at
her death; that he had done everything
possible to honor her memory by an
appropriate burial, and that he had
placed the boy in excellent hands. It
was a very strange letter to them, as they
never had the slightest intimation that
she was married.
The boy, meanwhile, proved himself
an unusually intelligent child, and en
deared himself to his new friends not a
little, and especially to their daughter,
who was about seventeen years old. But
after a number of months the family were
persuaded to bestow him on a neighbor
ing family who had no children of their
own and were anxious to adopt him. He
was living in that family at the beginning
of the present month, when he was taken
sick with the diptheria and died after a
few days at the age of three years. As
soon as he was attacked, the lady with
whom he had lived was summoned to
take care of him, and during his sick
ness her daughter found her way to
the bedside against the wish of
her friends. She, too, was soon
taken down with the same disease,
and died in a short time. During all
these months the boy’s mother was work
ing hard and saving up money 60 as to
be able to take her darling from the Man
chester almshouse, innocently supposing
that he would be given up to her when
0Ygf she should call for him. And she
did call the other day, much to the con
sternation of the authorities, who at once
began search for Marshall Wait. Little
by little they tracked him to Boston,
where be is said to be living a not over-
reputable life, and they then found that
the boy had been left at Holyoke. A
Manchester officer arrived Monday to
look him up, and, with the aid of the
local police, all the facts were brought
out. All the officer could do for the ex
pectant mother was to carry back to her
the certificates of his death and burial.
One of the pen
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ciently annoying
equanimity. It a,
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around the opera
him a distance of
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ended m a canvas
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he had met a hr:
would probably L.
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a discourse upon
phants, but it is
estimate on the ii
most intelligent b
understand that 11
times “be cruel c
ask an elephant 1
have appeared to
able liberty. It is,
fact that these hi;
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wont to repay the
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bear-pit itself, a
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with a gentlenes
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would tenderly wr. ;
body of any child
the experiment, ai
own broad back, a
lighted at the tru^. 7. r
nursemaids and th
cakes for this el
gingerbread nuts,
ticularly fond. A
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him a bag of these
sood learnt d to kr
day this young ge: : .
elephant a bag of
with Cayenne pep]
unsuspectingly < r * ,1
dropped the nu
gan to munch the
of coarse bad.
trumpeted aloud 1
Near him stood at
up and handed t
signifying his de .
drained pailful aft< 1
mentor stood nea
cess of his pitiful
ihe eiephaDt, who
had occurred, wan
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the elephant, hav r
seized the buckt
hurled it with terri
the practical joke
aim that the missil
few inches only. ' u~
to atoms against a <
the man it would ha
The same elepha *
told by his keepe: d
which rolled into t
a rhinoceros. By
tween the bars of
the two structures,
but not to grasp tl
made repeated effoi s
vain, and at last a
the enterprise. Su:
his trunk through
mighty snort blew
against the oppo-
bound it came e.
and he ate it with e r.
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Piuchbac
The letter ia whi* 3
Piucbback offers t
his resignation of s ■:
Senatorahip from L,
very effective docui
is directed against
ators who have
of the writer since * i
1873, but who hav
accept Kellogg, whe
weaker than Pinch!
thinka and provts.
argument in a 000.
precision and mode
make every stroke t >
board which create,
elected Pinchback
stitutional, then t
which created the L
Kellogg in 1877 was
If that body on the
a canvaS3 without 1
cuse that the reti
withheld, while the
in open violation (
returns. Since
elected Governor
cognized by the
Congress, Pinchback
title was won in
campaign and by th£ very sem
cannot understand vny he anoold
: for t
If
L
whose ■-*
the vex’
atonal
same
means,
bC
A Mississippi Rencontre.
The following is given by the New Or
leans Democrat as the correct account of
the recent rencontre between Gen. Wert
Adam^ and a man by the name of Swet-
man in a hotel in Mississippi City. Ac
cording to the Democrat, General Adams,
having been insulted, abused and me
naced by an armed man of the name of
Swetman, when he was entirely unarmed,
met the latter in the barroom at Colonel
Nixon's at Mississippi City, while he
(SwetmaD) was sitting at a table with
three other persons. Addressing Swet
man, Oeneral Adams remarked: “Sir, a
few days ago you took the opportunity
of my being unprepared to meet you
to grossly insult and abuse me; I
desire now to inferm you that I
am in a condition to resent and
punish such insult.” He expected that
Swetman would then and there apolo
gize for the insult, after having had sev
eral days to reflect on it. Instead of this
Swetman arose and, drawing his pistol,
fired at General Adame, the ball passing
through both the overcoat and undercoat
and grazing his body. General Adams
then drew his revolver and discharged it
in the face of Swetman, who fell under
the table, but recovering himself fired
again at General Adams, the ball passing
through the coat of Colonel Nixon, who
had jumped between the parties. General
Adams then fired several other shots at
Swetman, wounding him in four places
and exhausting hi3 pistol. He then drew
a derringer, but through the intervention
of other parties was prevented from
using it.
have been admitted to the Senate. The
carious inconsistencies, to describe t) ii
politely, in the action upon these :wo
cases of Senator Edmunds aud some o
his colleagues, Pinchbsck makes still
plainer by a compari^u of the re-elec
tion of Pinchback in 875 Willi the elec
tion of Kellogg last winter, tbe work of
the returning board in one instance haring
been accepted and in t oe other set aside.
To make the matter m re glaring, the repu
diation of Packard is oc-ntruetea with the
indorsement of Kellc g whose case was
based upon the cre< rntiaU of Packard
and his defunct Leg mature. It will be
wise for the Repubin an Senators whom
this letter attacks to 1-ave it unanswered.
Their conduct has be n neith-r straight
forward nor logical, auJ they OLnnoi jus
tify it. To see the n: -rubers of the high
est legislative body in the land voting one
way this year and ar :*ther w ij the next
upon identical issues ia a public peril 03
well as a public disgr; Every Repub
lican who is not a pla< --holder or partisan
merely, must see that 1 -ehogg was “count
ed in” simply to pre - rvp 8 little longer
a Republican supren acy ia the Semite
which could have bee — : ~ta
other way. This wae not even a H*rty
necessity—it was a party blun ier; but
it was perpetrated to buttress the per
sonal power of a few Senators over the
disposal of the publit -alronage Wneu
Pinchback was reject* the pressure was
less severe, but there we-e other r ason-
for that course which wi’ 4 l probably be
kept in tbe backgr una Mr. 1
back is a smart and :mbificus mulatto,
with a wife of the same origin
who came with h tc Washing
ton naturally enough be* t upon social
distinction. Had M-. Pinchback been
admitted into the S^n Mrs. Pinchback
must have been admitted into what is
called Washington sc 'ity. uz.: it ia an
open secret that certain lb r-c icati. states
men voted against . » * as a
matter of rare prejad ^ hen tbs D mo-
crats voted against it a matt, r of po
litical principle. If -he Senats, when
Pinchback ctfme befert it, had ! -a as
closely divided as now rif 1 r. ebb^ck had
been a white man, 01 v- negro with
an unpretentious if' -y woaid
nave voted for hi: -, as t*y have
voted now for Kel . vjhback’s
letter, independent!} >t ib? r- '■•nai as
pects, breathes the aa ~ j 3p:r: 1 m>,ub*
k TOUKf (11
RL IfiLlSJl.
Sb© J# 8
—
Mcitoine reet. Pb
mg cos- of id‘ a La,
in tbo inata. Jrath
JBj. {k,. j ... .'
3 *-6y und tikei
with ’» col. anion nu.
n ' fi- ••—7 Ru-saeiL
who had n-’ ?r visite
i to-: h 30 before
Myers had *•< ..n driLkinL- , . nr th.
and had Nourished a
0 -n ——
pistol, which he had
upon his >■ r ob, in a
alarmed c -4 friend.
«oki«w an ner that
by the okl tei'oT Kin
• and jiT6f8 csvt)
him twelve c rs v.*>i whir h in hr* r.™
ale. After the .iqu*.
ad bee** ,irn *- v*
th6 three, My.
4,. __ on « y
tbe sitting ro jin an .
shon of theo.d ccu
pie end fel! aheen.
be niece daring this
time wa- u the hoes
of a Neighbor, and
Ru3*.eU asved tho tai
io»- ro ?>id hrin^
her home, which he
7. . C, ,
Jd. Fan- he-
absent Ku^eL 1 Cv..
huded to take the
pistcl away from
the unconscious
Myers to present
him from doing
harm with it,
od just as the
sailor returned with
ais meoe was en-
gaged in extracting
hi- bails from the
chambers of the pit
l Ite girl took a
stand on the r pro*.
e side ot the room
from Russell, ~ ;o •
* «f ting ou a chair,
and while like two v
?e ec-aged in teik-
ing the pistol waaacei
i»-ii tally dischifgsd,
the ball ic si
e tr+ust of the g.rl
and penetnu.cg
heart. She er.ed.
“Ot! I’m suot,’ ard
f*4 to the door, ax-
pi ring instantly.
Or! gia of Familiar Phra *3.
* asks far the auihor-
ahipof ihe vid irexeti,. -vie 5u..ieg lit, .
basket of cuiys.’’ It is traceabie to a
76t 7 old date in Shropshire, England,
where it was uW to i esenbe an aiT-
affeoted good temper. A q joint old writer
quotes it -v th the added > or as that ex-
p-ain :i ‘ He smiles lik* a
chips -t. ci habit; nd nu
A lady vrwii-s oa to -{irs tie on*: "cf
toe phrase “He cannot say ‘bo i or boo
to a goose. 71 i’iiere ha,- been many at.
tempts to trace this .,ld p -oxarfc. One
self-satisfied writer aec-ont. for j‘ b, L
verse Iron. Burn-; bet the proverb it
more than a centniy oiler than the ooeL
Another traces it to aj incident ladatod
of Lord Kilmarnock rn 11» gen
Bojd, who were riding together when
they met a poor -impletec rho it
believed had no ■ .mmcrj bat o
great kneek at rbyroae By pre
cert, past aa they pv-sed , ; ,m, <
either side, they eeci l- neo to*
and dried oot “Be > ’ To-
simpiecon instantly replied.
; here i .
_, acn**tiock ml
Of auma -. rm L»' th *.-• vrdd *
Juf t thee bolls xr
The/ t I’t
Lord Boyt^
it IS
ordination to the
which so much as ton
in the cor duct of 1
when the Republican
it calmly t may a - *
salutary sen^e of th-
which the j hold ev=:
now thattligy have d'
he paction aily oare-
their hand-i.—Neto J
• publivMin
. ed Mr. c
-tt*r30n.
eaden tn
• an in th*
-»itUe fca
iCtliog -
a far
asy tc
a tut
bye.*
- <oty itaeif
- *J*
•t: -VUge
— from the
plain* th* ommon
doing I •J* 4 00 -■ti‘ tbcMpre^na, ^
■L. . | ,far! ** r ' DO, '-* b,e !La; uttered t
tartie the b- iin war uready
f-r c«
Wot, titered
tin vm — r - -
tr seme t 1 P 8 -
acre by lh fir., Johnson’s
•jv<v, & Lu.-*ion to “Bo”<'oath<
> ’1 that j jeiapie a. ai; old NarUmm
voect *t ! 1 ' reebooter '° r *JRJ>tta vu
Two Iriiumeo in *1 fough:
over some tnv.al mi ' r on r.aay it ..
and cut eauh other so •; _•«. •
probably cie.
! Freebooter
! name need to texziH the .
1 Charg *, and ia later we-r* ,
bugaboo nf
\
V
dren. it the
A tuazi of little
energy or com. to
gco=e.—*Y. Y.