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All letters should be addressed, J. K. ESTILL, Savannah. Ga. — - — T — " THE HENCHMAN. J. II. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1878. ESTABLISHED 1850. My ladv walks her morning round. My lady's page her fl«*et greyhound. My lady’s nair the fon£ winds stir. And all the birds make songs for her. Her thrushes sing in Rath burn bowers. And Rathbum side Is gay with flowers; But ne’er like hers, in flower or bird. Was l»eauty seen or music heard. The distance cf the stars is hers; The least of all h**r worshippers. Tie* dust l»eiieath her dainty he 1. She knows not that I see or feel. O proud and calm! she cannot know W here'er she goes with her Igo; O cold and fair ! —she cannot guess I kneel to share her bound's caress 1 Gay knights h«*side her hunt and hawk, I rob their ears of her sweet talk; Her suitors cotr.e from east and west, I steal her smiles from every guest. Unheard of her, in loving words, 1 greet her with the song of birds. I reach her with h -r green-armed bowers, I kiss her with the lips of flowers. The hound and I are on her trail. The wind and I uplift her veil; As if th • calm, cold moon she were. And I the tide, I follow her. As unrebuked as they, 1 share Tin* license of the sun and air. And in a common homage hide My worship from her scorn and pride. Nor look nor sign l>etrayeth me; I serve her in my low degree, Content in humble ways to prove He serveth well who serves for love. And still to her my service brings The reverence due to holy things; Her maiden pride, her haughty name 31 v dumb devotion shall not shame. —John Greenleaf Whittier. Miss Ada Langston, daughter of Dr. A. H. Langston, of Elbert irounty, while using a nee dle, placed it in her mouth and accidentally swallowed it. Lodging cross-wise in her throat, serious consequences were feared, but fortunately it was dislodged and the young lady relieved. Don't put needles or pins in your mouth. The meeting of the business men and citizens of Augusta in the interest of direct trade with the West Indies appointed th** following repre- sentativegentlemen to visit Havana; Messrs. J. O. Mathewson. Jno. M. Clark, W. N. Mereierand J. V. H. Allen. The store of Mr. Jacob El>erhart at Goose Pond Oglethorpe county, was burned Tuesday night, and the building, together with quite a large amount of goods, including about five hundred pounds of fresh liacon, was totally consumed. It was supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. 31r. J. Howard shot and wounded policeman McCafferty in the left arm at Macon on Thurs day night. The policeman was attempting to arrest 3Ir. Howard when the latter drew his pistol and shot him. The wound is not danger ous, but severe. On Thursday morning an attempt was made to burn a residence on Fifth street near the comer of Plum street. Macon, by setting fire to the back porch under the stoop. The flames were opportunely discovered and extinguished. We made mention in this column a few days since of a bold theft of seven bales of cotton from Blackwell's Landing, on the Savan nah river, in Elbert county, by thieves who crossed from South Carolina fot thar pur pose. The parties who had been out on a search for the cotton came up with the entire seven bales in Abbeville county, S. C., last week. Oae of the thieves sends over his affi davit that he was the only white man connect ed with the robbery. This from the Augusta Chronicle and Consti tutionalist: “With the new year the Savannah News donned a n»-w and exceedingly handsome tyi>ographiral dres*. The News is one of the leading dailies of the South, and it gives us pleasure to know that its success has been com mensurate with its merits.'" The Hartwell Sun has the following: “One day last week Milton Fuller had four heavy bales of cotton on his wag< »u. and had crossed the Savannah river in a flat boat. On ascending the second hill from the river his oxen turned (the cotton luckily fell off) and ran into the river with the wagon. When about the middle of the river the wagon became uncoupled, and the oxen came out on the Georgia hank, about three hundred yards below the regular landing, with th** fore wheels and tongue ail right. Mil- ton hod the lines in his hand when they plunged into the river, and when he reached the hank threw* them after the oxen, stuttering out. as usual. 'There, d-d-damn you, g-g-g-go! ’’ The Sandersville Herald and Georgian has this military item: “Captain I. Herman made a hurried trip to Atlanta last week in the interest of Martin's Battery, of Sandersville. He has assurances from the Executive Department that no proper efforts will he spared to secure the early equipment of the old battery. There art* but two artillery companies now in the State— one in Savannah and one in Augusta. The Governor seemed to take a soldierly pride in *’ ■ reorganization of this company. Georgia Affairs. At a meeting of the Green Line held at the Kimball House, Atlanta, on Wednesday evening, for tin.* purpose of organization of the lines, the following railroads were represented: St. Louis, Iron 3Iountaiu and Southern, Nashville, Chattanooga and St. I^ouis, Western and Atlan tic, St. Louis aud Southeastern, South Carolina Railroad. Georgia Railroad, Atlanta and Char lotte Air-Line. Atlanta ar.d West Point, Macon and Brunswick, Port Royal, Alabama and Chat tanooga, Southwestern. Georgia Central, Cairo Short Line, Louisville, Nashville and Great Southern. Owing to the illn**ss of one of the delegates, no business of importance was trans acted, the meeting adjourning in consequence until ten o’clock Thursday. A meeting of the Southern Railroad and Steamship Association was held at Atlanta on Thursday, tin* object of the meeting being the readjustment of the division of business. 31 r. Charles II. Williams, manager of the At lanta Daily Tribune, Is a candidate for Secre tary of the next Senate. He was Assistant Sec retary of the Constitutional Convent ion, and won deserved popularity for the ability with which he filled the position. The Atlanta Tribune thinks that at least one thousand people in Atlanta sat down involunta- rily-on the sidewalks on Tuesday night. It was “powerful” slippery. The barn and two thousand pounds of forage, belonging to Colonel Tom C. Howard, at Kirk wood, Fultou county, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday night last, the work e.f an incendiary. Thursday's Issue of the Atlanta Tribune comes out under a new head, which is a decided typo graphical improvement on the old one. The Franklin Register thinks it would pay the citizens of Caraesvill.* to give half their property to fhe building of the proposed rail road from Camesville to Harmony Grove. Now. don't let all the citizens speak at once. The Rex Ball at Atlanta, notwithstanding the very inclement weather, was a success, and the merry revellers enjoyed themselves hugely. At twelve o'clock the gay i>orry unmasked, and when each stood out in propria itersuiuc it was discovered that General Pierce Young was Rex. and the Queen of the Carnival Miss Norma Clayton. Carrie Watt, colored, was noprictetl at the present term of the Muscogee Superior Court at Columbus, for tho burning of the Locust Grove Colored Baptist Church in July last. Robert Banks and Carrie Watts were members of the church, but had l>oen expelled, and they set fire to the church in revenge for this action. Banks made his escape, leaving his partner in crime to bear tin* brunt of ike law. The financial exhibit of Fulton county for the year ending December 31,1877, shows that there was a balance on hand January 1, 1877, of $5,- 0QS es; that the receipts into the county treas- j . uiy for the year just closed were $33,450 49, and I Both animal and Vegeta lie •&r were $50,- th< The Hawkinsville Dispatch says : “Dr. Moses Tomlinson Fort died at his home fourteen miles below Hawkinsville on Friday afternoon, Janu ary 4. 1878, aged about fifty-one years. Dr. Fort was for many years a citizen and practicing physician of Hawkinsville, and there are many who will regret the announcement of his death and feel a sympathy for the stricken widow and eight children.” 3Ir. A. L Hatton, Tax Collector of Telfair county, has vamoosed, leaving his sureties to foot the executions to the amount of two thou sand eight hundred dollars, issued against him by the Comptroller General. The Hawkinsville Dispatch says, in reference to the defalcation: “Mr. Hatton had always sustained a good name for integrity, and liis family name was respect ed for honesty. His great sin was drinking, and this failing has no doubt led to the trouble, as it hits in hundreds of other cases. The tax-books were mutilated and injured considerably, and it is believed that a considerable amount of the tax is yet uncollected.” The Augusta Evening News of Thursday says: “This morning forty-five negroes from South Carolina, employed by 3Ir. Ayeock for his tur pentine farm in Southwestern Georgia, arrived here and took the Central Railroad train for th.hr destination. During their short stop at the Union depot the whole party were taken by tlieir employer around to Bennett A Howard's, corner Campbell and Telfair streets, where a square drink of whisky was dealt out to each one. It required one gallon of whisky to sup ply th**m. and a v»*ry lively scene was presented while the}* were drinking. ’ The North Georgia Citizen says : “The Sr# vannah News has donned a new dress and pre sents a very handsome appearance. It is one of the l>est"dailies in the wnolecountry—always brimful of spicy news.” The Elberton Gazette says: “Sheriff Adams, having so many more prisoners than cells, placed four negro men in one of the up-stairs apartments of the jail. Last Monday, pursu ing his usual morning rounds, h** discovered that these four had by some means procured two case-knives which they had converted into saws and with them had severed four of tli** iron bars across the window. They were about half out, and had the dis covery been postponed a little later, the jail-birds would have flown. The work "••is as smoothly done as if a skillful smith had taken his time to accofupl&i the same. The bars were half an inch by three inches, and un less one had seen the knives tried lie could hardly realize that tho sawing could be done with them We understand that these prisoners had plotted to throw a blanket over tlu* Sheriff when he made hfs appearance, put him hors du combat, and then away to the *->ods. All this in the event of failure to escape by the win dow. The Sheriff, having some intimation of then designs, frustrated all of them.” BY TELEGRAPH. NOON TELEGRAMS. FROM THE THEATRE OF WAR. The Armistice Negotiations Not Concluded. ORGANIZATION OF THE FRENCH CHAMBERS. AFFAIRS /_V CHINA. A HEAVY SWINDLING TION. Forelgn.PolItIeaI Note*. ! shivering that the disbursements for the 542 53, leaving a balance on hand January 1. 3878, of $8,513 25. Georgia has 1,364,440 hogs and 1.261,240 in habitants, one hog for each man. woman and child, and 200 over. If equally divided, and the hogs were fat it would about furnish the entire population with bacon and lard. Captain J. E. Hitch, formerly business man ager of the Athens Georgian, his received his commission as Deputy United States Marshal for the Ninth District. The bam, stables, several thousand pounds of fodder and some corn of 3Ir. John Searls, of Lincoln county, were entirely consumed by fire a few days since. Two negroes in the neigh borhood were arrested on suspicion of being the incendiaries, and committed to await trial at the next term of the Superior Court On Friday last, at Hamilton, Harris county, H. C. Watson was arrested as the man who shot at Mr. L H. Zaehery, at Cochran's Cross Roads, on the Wednesday night preceding. The officer had Watson in custody, but by some means he escaped on Sunday. The Athens Watchman learns that one day last week, in Madison county. 3lr. Wm. L Lan ders, aged about twenty-two years, was mar ried to Mi*» Annie L Nelms, aged eleven years and five months, who weighs only sixty-eight pounds. On Wednesday night last 3Irs. Milley A. Da vis’ dwelling house, kitehen and lumber house, at Hartwell, were burned to the ground. A por tion of the furniture and bedding was saved. The expense of running the municipality of Dalton for the past year was $6,640 46, and the receipts from all sources were $6,711 83, leaving a balance of $71 87 to start the wheels of pro gress in 1878. Freights received and forwarded from the depot at Gainesville In 1877 were ten per cent, more than for the year 1876, which indicates progress in the right direction. The following named gentlemen will run the municipality of Toeeoa this year: Major J. 31. Freeman. Mayor. Councilmen—Dr. A. G. Har ris, H. W. Jones, S. H. 3Ioseiy, J. W. Payne and Alford Price. Recorder, L P. Cook. At Crump & Pampley’s mills, on North river, in Franklin county, it is estimated that ten thou sand bushels of wheat and fifteen thousand bushels of corn were ground during the year ending December 31st. 1877. Major J. M. Freeman, the Mayor of Tocoa, is announced as associate editor of the Tocoa Herald, so that the Herald is now the official paper. Its typograplxical appearance would be improved with a little less ink. A flr^ on the roof of the Buena Vista Argus office on Tuesday morning last, caused a gener al pying of the forms which were nearly ready for the press, entailing much labor in their re arrangement. Nevertheless the Argus made its appearance on time, and though somewhat deficient in matter, evidences the goaheadativo- ness of its proprietor and the compositors. It has been determined by the authorities of Macon to seil twenty-five thousand dollars worth of short date currency boode, and with j the proceeds io take up that amount of the mutilated city currency. A committee has also been appointed to confer with the Central Railroad authorities to endeavor to enter into some arrangement whereby the city currency will be received for freight* by the said road. Jehu Johnston, of Floyd county, bus a mule he bought in 1860. She was then four years old. She is now a good mule, and can do as much work as any ordinary mule, and has lost none of that agility of the hind legs character istic tfcea*ute ^edes. Dots from Northern Georgia. Sitting in my room in this llttie town (where I am temporarily stopping), this chilly January morning, looking through the window at the snow, the hare trees the wind, all animation, seeming lost, one can scarcely realize that but a few months ago all the towns upon this the Air-Line Railroad were thronged witli <jHv and festive multitudes, many from Savannah, coming to this sanitary cli mate, avoiding the miasma common to the “low country” during the heated months. The summer is the season of gayetv here; there the winter. Splendid new hotels are being erected • and completed, old ones remodeled and elegantly finished, making ready for the immense crowds of summer resorters ex pected to fill them. The improvements, however, all of this nature—not all dependent upon t lie bent or fancy of pleasure-seekers for their sustenance. Manufactories are springing up. Tho dull times seem but to stimulate. This being comparatively anew and undeveloped country, water powers abundant, fuel cheap, its re sources extensive, the attention of capi talists is being concentrated here. This is especially noticeable in the vil lage of Noicrdss—but fifty min utes ride from Atlanta—where I am to-day. stopping. Manufactories here have already started — others to commence at tin early day. Among the most conspicuous already in opera tion are those of X. F. C'ooledgc & Sons. These gentlemen arc manufacturing quite extensively a novel grist and flour mill, which will undoubtedly work as complete a revolution in the old stvlc of milling as railroads have in the old style of travel. These mills, novel m struc ture, can be run with less than half the power of other mills, can be put in the place of a gir. and run with horse power. Another peculiarity is they never heat the meal. Another feature of this country quite noticeable is that emigration to the West ern States from this section is far short of that from other sections. The Air-Line Railroad is doing a great work towards the development of the resources of this country. Its officials are live, active men. This country’s future is bright, and I predict that it will soon be, if it is noi already, the Eden cf the State. B. Nokcross, January 9. The exports of cheese from the United States, as shown by a table prepared by the Bureau of Statistics, has grown from 144,734 pounds in the year 1790 to 107,- 364,666 " pounds in 18f 7. The total ex- TIIE ARMISTICE QUESTION NOT YET SET TLED. London, January 11.—The Agcnce Rnsse denies the truth of the state ment that the Porte has already accepted a preliminary basis of peace, and says: “The Porte, how ever, is aware that the acceptance of these bases must precede the conclusion of the armistice.” Constantinople. January 11, 8:30 a. 3f.—The armistice has not yet been ar ranged. The Porte lias received the Rus sian answer to the Turkish communica tion proposing an armistice, intimating that negotiations must be conducted on the basis of eventual peace conditions. The Porte has not yet replied to this. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT HONOLULU. San Francisco, January 11.—A fire at Honolulu devastated the Esplanade por tion of the city, destroying the govern ment warehouses opposite, the custom house wharves and sheds devoted to the use of the ocean imiil steamers, lumber yards and a number of private buildings, including storehouses, manu facturing establishments, etc. The loss is about $350,000. The government loses $60,000, the Pacific Mail Steamship Com pany. $26,000; T. S. Davis, $26,000; Al len & Robinson. $25,000, and W. G. Invin A Co., $20,000. affairs in the east. San Francisco, January 11.—The steamer Belgic has arrived with advices from Hong Kong to December 14th and Shanghai to December 15th. There is no abatement of the ravages of the famine in the northern provinces. Vast districts are being completely depopulated. There is no possible hope of relief this year or perhaps next. The United States Minister had return ed from Shanghai to Peking. Mr. Brad ford, late Vice-Consul General at Shang hai was still in jail. a heavy swindling operation. New York, January 11.—Superin tendent Walling was notified last evening that Henry M. Cutter, cotton broker, had swindled John Collins, of Brooklyn, out of $25,000 worth of cotton by buying it under the pretence of sending it to North Adams, Hass., then putting it in a bonded warehouse, drawing $8,000 and running away. Cutter owed Collins $5,000 lie- fore this and $1,000 to the carman for cartage. Cutter's office was at 131 Pearl street.” organization of the french cham bers. Verseilles, January 11.—M. Grevy has been re-elected President of the Depu ties by 335 votes out of a total of 346. Many Deputies of the Right abstained from voting. MM. Bethmont, Brisson and Rameau, Republicans, and Count Durfo-t DeCivrac, Legitimist, were elect ed Vice Presidents. Duke D’Aufret Pasquier was re-elected President of the Senate by 172 votes against 6J blank. The former Vice Presidents were re-elected. AFFAIRS IN GREECE. Athens, January 11.—It is asserted here that an insurrection in Macedonia is imminent. Demetrius Bulmaris. the well known Greek politician, died of apolexy. He was President of the Provisional Govern ment of Athens in 1862, and was subse quently President of Council and Minis ter of the Interior. At the time of his death he was Chief of the Greek Re volutionary Committee. NOTES FROM NEW ORLEANS. New Orleans, January 11.—There is no news of ifte missing dredge lx>at Mc Allister. The tobacco dealers here held a meet ing and adopted a memorial to Congress, asking the reduction of the tobacco tax and drawback on tax already paid. The New Orleans Cotton Exchange yesterday paid a dividend of eight dollars per share to the stockholders. THE VICTORY AT 8CHIPKA PASS. Bucharest, January’ 11.—A corres pondent of the Times says the battalions captured in Schipka Pass probably num ber from three hundred to four hundred men. The victory-will result in a com bined movement by Generals Radetzky and Skobeleif through S^hjpka and Tro jan Passes respectively, CONSOLIDATED VIRGINIA MINING COM * PANY. San Francisco, January 11.—The Secretary’s report of the Consolidated Virginia Mining Company, shows cash on hand at the beginning of the year $35,012 79; receipts from all sources $13,864,644 76; disbursements $12,879,- 211 43. including $8,640,000 divindeds. THE POPE ON THE DEATH OF VICTOR EMANUEL. London, Jaawr 11.—The Daily News' correspondent at lvome says the Pope on receiving the news of the death of the King said: “I expected it and I had par doned him. Let us now pray for the re pose of his soul. ” SULIEMAN PASHA RELIEVED. Vienna, January 11.—The Political Correspondence's special from Constanti nople states that Sulicman Pasha has been relieved from command, and sum moned to Constantinople. THE REDUCTION OF THE WHISKY TAX. Nashville. Tenn., January 11.—A meeting, with fifty counties represented, adopted 4 resolution to memorialize Con gross to reduce the \ihjskytax to fifty cents. FAILURE. New’ York, January 11.—Francis P. Wyncoop. in the varnish trade, has failed. Liabilities over a quarter of a million; assets small. POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN SPAIN. Madrid, January 11.—Debarzanallano and Herrera have been re-elected Presi dents of the Senate and Deputies respec tively. TIIE SURRENDER OF ANTIVART. Cettinje, January 11.—Antivari sur rendered unconditionally to the Monte negrins vesterdav, FAMOUS DUELS. How They Fought in Florida—A Loafing Tour Through the Land ol Hotspur* — Keminlacence* of the Time of the Seminole War—A Per sonal Insult that Led to Haifa Doz en Fatal Kneoonteni A Visit to Senator Patterson.—A Washington dispatch says Senator Pat terson replied on Monday to a gentleman who asked him in regard to the current report of his resignation : 4 J shall not resign under any consider ation. If Iain to he sick I should lie a fool to resign, because I can lie here and draw my thirteen dollars a day. No, sir. I authorize you to say that I will not re sign, and those fellows down there will not rob mo yet of my seat. I am going to Pennsylvania w'ht*n I get wejl enough to travel. Simon Cameron has invited Under the new army regulations every Prussian soldier carries iu his left trous ers pocket the plaster, lint and bandage necessary for a first dressing of a wound, do that in an emergency each can help himself or a comrade. pt rts for the je iod, including bptli those me to visit his farm, and I think I shall years, has been 1.262,952,571 pounds. dose, but I am subject to these re lapsed, and I don’t know when another will come on. I have bec-n worn out by hard work and hatrassed by refugee ixmth Carolinians who want situations, until I am entirely broken down. I do not intend to abandon South Carolina if my persecutors will let me go back. My interests are in the State. I own real property in Columbia and Charleston. I wish I did not. I would like to get out, but I cannot. These stories al»out my shamming sickness are false. I am un able to move, and even this conversation excites me and makes me fear a relapse. You are the only person, except Be© Sut ler aud my doctoce, whom I have aefcn Jwustiiten sjcfc” TUc Treasurer of Augusta. Me., has hung a big banner across the street, bear ing the device: “Treasurer’s office. Have you paid your taxes ?” Scarlet fever is spreading so rapidly in Topeka, Kansas, and vicinity that all the schools ao$ churtffies are to be closed uatil the scourge abates. H. W. Grady. in Philadelphia Weekly Times. Some of the bloodiest duels on record were fought in Florida. The Seminole war, in 1837, brought to the front a lot of j reckless young blue bloods that were full of fire and sparkle. Gay livers for the most part, they headed carelessly through the world and carried the whole defense of their lives in their pistol fingers. A pres sure of the trigger was the answer they g..ve to protest of deprecation. The brush they ha i with Osceola and his yellow de vils warmed them up sharply, and when Prince Murat settled upon their coast with a colony of Frenchmen challenges flew thick and fast. The Frenchman, of necessity and with pleasure, fought their way through, and very soon the already turbulent society of Florida had received a deeper tinge from the splendid drilling of the cut and thrust followers of “the Prince. ” It was in Florida that the feud began in which the Alstons, Willis and Augustus, lost tlieir lives. I was sitting one night in Brown’s hotel—a famous old rendezvous of forty years’ standing— pickling myself in orange brandy and munching soaked biscuit, when a shuf fling old fellow approached me. I recog nized him as Mr. Zabran, a ragged post script to the life of a gentleman, engaged at the time in the humble but respectable business of washing dishes at the hotel. "Do you see that ragged hole up there over the furder flj’ brush?” asked the old man. Upon my replying to the question, which really did not require an answer, but was thrown out by the crafty old gabbler as a lasso, with its interrogatory loop at the end, he reflectively wound his cup-towel about him. and sitting down, remarked: “Well, sir, if all the blood that was shed in the quarrel in which that hole was made was smeared on these walls it would redden up this whole room, I can tell you.” The san guinary seduction that the old fellow had pat into bis story, and pushing him a glass of brandy, I asked him to tell me all about it. Then and there, in that musty and half ruined hotel, full of its wild and riotous memories, the old fellow told me a story that for fierce gallantry and recklessness puts fiction to shame. The actors in it, of sunny and heroic temper, of largo wealth and* illustrious lineage, are dead. Their descendants jet live and stand high among the highest. Of course it is impossible to avouch the par ticular correctness of the details of this story, or the most of those that follow, l#lt the general points are believed to Ik* just as written. A DUEL OF THE SEMINOLE WAR. “In the Seminole war,” said Mr. Za bran, evidently ambling down a well- worn groove of conversation, “Governor Call, of this State, commanded a crack regiment. One morning he received a note announcing that his wife was quite ill. He at once repaired to her bedside. During his absence a battle was fought. Shortly afterward an article appeared iu the Chronicle and Sentinel, of Augusta, insinuating that Governor Call had pur posely absented himself from the battle. The paper containing this cruel article reached the camp, and was at once the subject of comment. Lieutenant Au gustus Alston determined, in the ab sence of his Colonel, to protect his honor, mounted a horse and plunged through the woods for Augusta. Reach ing that city he made his way to the Chronicle office and demanded to know the author of the offensive article. It turned out that it was Governor Reed, of Florida, for a long time* a bitter politi cal enemy of Call’s. Lieutenant Alston at once sent him a peremptory challenge. Governor Reed replied that he would be happy to accommodate Lieutenant Alston with satisfaction as soor as he had concluded au affair with Lieutenant Williams, of Call’s staff, who had already favored him with a note upon the same subject. Alston thereupon had to con tent his soul in patience until the affair with Williams was over. He did not have to wait long. A meeting was soon arranged between Reed and Williams, the conditions of which were that they were to fight with bowie knives until one or the other should be cut down. At the meeting the men came upon the ground, stripped to their shirts. They advanced until they met each other. They then clasped their left hands together in a firm and dead-game grasp, standing toe to toe’ The keen and shining knives were then placed in their right hands. At a signal they were dropped perpendicu larly along their legs, At the next word they were raised into the air, and then the terrible fencing began. It was a brief, strenuous struggle. The long knives cut and gashed and wheezed through the flesh of the combatants and clashed and sparkled against each other, now buried in vital tissues and now whipped out with a dim, bluish moisture veiling the blades, until at length Lieut. Williams fell, hacked almost to pieces. Governor Reed escaped without dis abling injury. a brother’s revenge. “He then turned his attention to Lieu tenant Alston. Being the challenged party, he had the choice of weapons, lie selected a murderous weapon, now happily obsolete, but then of common use, and known as a yager. It was a broad-mouthed, funnel-shaped, smooth bore gun that carried a handful of shot, and was warranted to hit everything in the neighborhood of its aim. The duel was a most unfortunate one in its direct and remote h<suUs, (’attain Kenon was Lieutenant Alston's second. The princi pals were posted with tlieir backs to each other. As the word ‘wheel’ was called it Is claimed that Alston slipped and stumbled. The command, ‘Fire—one— two—three !’ followed almost imme diately, and before he could re cover his gun went off into the air. Governor Reed took cool aim. tired promptly kt tlio word, and Lieutenant Alston dropped dead. Thus two gallant young fellows had already fallen in de fense of the honor of an absent com rade. But the cruel feud was hardly open<*d. Colonel Willis Alston, then living iu LbtpajrnF-. hearth of his brothers death, and became impressed with the idea that be had not been fairly killed. He claimed that Governor Reed should have withheld his fire when he saw his brother’s gun spring aim lessly toward the skv. Indeed, it is said that a sister of Lieutenant Alston had the lead taken from her btouier’s body and a new bullet moulded, which she sent lo Culouel Will la Alston. aud de manded that he should come and avenge their brother’s death. Colonel Alston came as fast as possible to this hotel. Governor Brown met him as he rode up to the piazza, and at once divined his purpose. You hgve come here to chal lenge Reed?’ he asked. Colonel Alston assented. Governor Brown then begged him to be very deliberate and cool and quiet about it. On the very night he got here, he was sitting near the fireplace yonder, with a large cloak around him* and his head bowed upoij his band, fje had been sit ting there only a few moments when some one rushed past him rather roughly, liaising his head he discovered that it was Governor Reed, the very man he had traveled so far to challenge to deadly combat. In an instant he was ablaze with excitement, and rising, exclaimed: ‘You have murdered my brother, sir, and now do you presume to insult me ? Draw and defend yourself, sir.’ As quick as thought Reed drew a six-bar reled pistol and fired, tearing away Alston’s third finger, just as the latter poured a broadside into him from a horse man’s pistol, lodging a hall in his side. The fire was repeated, each man receiving another bullet. Colonel Alston was then out of ammunition, having only two horseman's pistols. Throwing back his long cloak, however, he drew his bowie t^nd closed with his antagonist. In a few |?ethum strokes Governor Reed was cut to the floor, and his opponent sank in a Xajjitipg jjt. i£ taelqe that that hole A DEADLY MEETING. “The two men were taken to their beds, and for several weeks after were confined to their rooms. Col. Alston was the fix st to recover. He was very much embittered by the contest that hail taken place, and said that he intended to kill Governor Reed on sight. A few days afterward he met Governor Reed on the street. He went home ami loaded a double-barreled shot-gun, putting in one of the liarrels, it is said, a bullet that his sister ~ had moulded with the lead taken from his brother’s dead body. Seeking Reed again, he fired at him on sight, tearing away his shoulder with the first barrel and riddling his heart with the second. This rencontre created the intensest excitement, and led to some legal proceeding against Colonel Alston, which, however, did not result in any thing. Colonel Alston shortly after this went K) Texas. He had lieen there but a short time when he heard that Dr. John McNeil Stewart, a man of prominence in Brazoria, had commented disparagingly upon his affair with Governor Reed. ‘Meeting Dr. Stewart upon the prairie a few days after this report had come to his ears, he handed him a letter containing the offensive language and asked him if he was responsible for it. Pending their discussion of the matter at issue thev fell upon each other with great fury. It appears that Dr. Stewart was armed with a pair of Colt’s pistols and Colonel Alston with a bowie-knife and shot-gun. When found by their friends, Alston was lying at the root of a large tree, with four bullet holes through his body. Stewart was lying near by, with two loads of bucksiiot in his heart, stark and stiff. Colonel Alston wa> so badly wounded that he could only lie carried in a blan ket, slung hammockwise between two men. As he was being borne into the town in this manuer his friends were met by a company of armed men. who fired a hundred shots into the blankets, killing Colonel Alston instantly.” THE CRUEL CODE. This feud, involving the death of so many superb men anti bankrupting two powerful families, is but one of a thou sand that might be traced in fatal scarlet through the system of Southern society. We have only followed the direct vein of the feud. 4Vere all the results, direct and remote, carefully looked up, it would be found that the publi cation of that article in the Chronicle caused the death of a score of chivalric gentlemen. It is a peculiar feature, too, that every challenge that makes up its bloody story was issued in defense of a comrade’s honor. Prince Murat, albeit he was a quiet and schol arly man, was a stickler for the code. While there is. no record of his having him>elf fought a duel, his edict was au thority in dueling circles, and his voice was never lifted against the practice. All trace of the warm-spirited Frenchman and his comrades is swept away. The shock of war dislodged tlieir influ ence from the heart of the Floridians, and it is a mayhap if any one of the in habitants of Tallahassee now show you the spot where their royal guest lies buried. A law against dueling has oeen enacted, and hands that once played with the pistol-handle have now per force gone in terrible earnest to the plow- handle. And yet there is not a people upon earth hotter in temper or more je dous of honor than these swarthy fel lows, that thirty years ago might have heard, as they hiy dandling in their cra dles, the whip-like crack of pistols, as their fathers popped away at each other in some convenient glen. We reproduce the above article from the Philadelphia Weekly Times in order that we may correct some of the misstatements of the writer in jurious to the fame of one whose eminent ability, public services, true chivalry and manly virtues commanded the esteem and respect of good men who knew him in life, and entitle him to hon orable memory now that he is in his grave. The writer gives his readers some thrilling details of sanguinary’ scenes, which, he well remarks, “put fiction to shame,” and which, he informs us, he ob tained from a ragged plate washer in a Tallahassee hotel, “while pickling him self in orange brandy and munching soaked biscuit.” We must suppose that our friend Grady succeeded very effectu ally in the “pickling” process, for on no other hypothesis can we account for his permitting himselF to be so egregiously imposed upon by that remarkable “postscript to the life of a gentleman,” Mr. Zabran, whose narrative as a whole might be very properly char acterized as an arrant fiction, with just an occasional scintillation of truth to aid the imposition. For instance, his story of the circum stances which led to the first blood}* bowie-knife butchery which he calls a duel, as well ua the butchery itself, is without the slightest foundation in truth. To take up the story in detail: Governor 1835-’6. At the close of the campaign, and after Gen. Scott had withdrawn till the troops from the field, it was discovered that a small garrison had been left in a block-house on the Withlacoochee. and were entirely surrounded by the Indians. The release of these men was considered a most hazardous if not hopeless under taking, when Gen. Reed volunteered to lead a forlorn hope to the rescue. Being joined by some fifty men, most of whom had served under liim. he undertook and successfully accomplished the desperate enterprise. Procuring at St. Mark’s a large open barge, he fortified it with pine plank bulwarks, pierced with loop holes for musketry. This boat was towed by steamer to the* mouth of the Withla- coochce with his small force on board. After moving some distance up the river, keeping a sharp lookout for the Indians and arriving in the vicinity of their camps, he waited for the darkness of the night. Then, ordering perfect silence amon£ his men, he moved noiselessly forward lx* tween the hmh hanks of the river, while the pine woods on either side were lit up by The smouldering camp fires of the unsus pecting Indians. Arriving in the vicinity of the block-house, a preconcerted signal was given, and the half-fainishtd garri son rushed on board the baa . which dropped noiselessly down the stream. Thus the rescue was effected without the loss of a man or the firing of a gun. Thisandother like achievements during the war had given Gen. Reed promotion and a widespread popularity. Local j>oli tics ran high at this time in Florida. General Reed became the leader of i strong faction. Colonel Augustus Alston a gentleman of character and great popularity, was of the opposing party. In the exciting issues of the day personal animosities and resentments * were en gendered, and as leaders of opposing in terests and parties, these gentlemen were drawn into an attitude of hostility to each other, which culminated in the duel in which the latter fell. It is unnecessary to enter into a de tailed account of that fatal meeting. It is sufficient to say that the duel was fought with dueling rifles in strict con formitv with the requirements of the “bloody code” and the special terms of meeting agreed upon by the parties. Both gentlemen liehaved gallantly, no such absurd and impossible occurrence as that described by the writer in the Times took place, and from the day of the duel until we read his account of it we had never heard the slightest imputation of unfairness attributed to either of the combatants. Both were remarkably cool and collected on the ground. Colonel Alston, of a quick, nervous temperament, fired first, but instantly afterwards received the fire of his antagonist and fell dead where he stood. This duel very naturally caused con siderable excitement even in Tallahassee, where at that period such affairs were of but too frequent occurreace. Col. Willis Alston at the time of the duel was absent from the territory. The sisters of the Alstons being passionately attached to their brothers, were almost frantic in their grief, and it was stated that, having ob tained the fatal bullet, they declared that they would never rest in peace until with the same ball Willis had revenged the death of Augustus. General Reed was cautioned by his friends to beware of Willis Alston, but he had no such meeting with Alston in the hotel as is descrilted by the writer in the Times, and received no challenge, nor, so far as is known, any note of warning from him. The facts* of this hotel ren contre are as follows: Not lon^ after the duel General Reed was elected to the State Legislature, and at its organization was made Speaker of the House. On the evening of that day the usual legislative dinner was given in the dining room of Brown’s Hotel. As the company wore ulxjijt to be seated at the table a man, nmffied in a large cloak, with a slouched hat drawn over his fact*, was seen to enter the outer door of the room. As the stranger rushed to wards the spot where General Reid was still standing, a cry of alarm was given: “Alston! Alston!” Drawing his pistol, Alston (for it was he) tired upon General Reed, striking him in the side, then hastily retired towards the door by which he had entered. General Reed drew a small pistol and fired upon the retreating form, striking Alston in the hand, whereupon Alston rushed back, and, with a bowie knife, inflicted an other wound upon General Reed, who was still standing by his chair. In the midst of the excitement and confusion Alston disappeared, and v/«»s not seen again iu Tallahassee for months after ward, until the day on which he accom plished his purpose of taking the life of General Reed. he would escape or be rescued by his friends, a party of some twenty or thirty of the friends of Dr. Stewart, whom he had killed, took him from the jail and conveying him to a short distance shot him to death, every man in the party putting a ball in his body. Such iu brief is the true history and the incidents of this bloody episode in Southern frontier life. Pry floods. Pry floods. i aiaiie up tfcerek Call did not “command a crack regi ment” in the Seminole war—he was not absent from the field in attendance upon his wife when a battle was fought—Gov ernor Reed did not write the article in the Augusta Chronicle—no such article was written or published—there was no such man as “Governor” Reed in the case— Lieutenant Augustus Alston did not mount his horse and ride five hundred miles to Augusta to make a demand on the editor of the Chronicle—Lieutenant Alston did nfit challenge Governor Reed —Governor Reed did not accept a chal lenge from Lieutenant Williams to fight a duel—and no such duel with bowie knives as that so graphically described by the writer, ever took place between Lieu tenant Williams and Governor Reed or anybody else. So much for the duel that never was fough^ We might, gu on in the same way to dispose of most of the writer’s state ments in regard to the duel between Gen. Leigh Reed and Col. Augustus Alston, in which the latter was killed. But we will not attempt to correct in detail all the misstatements of the writer in regard to thai unhappy affaji. Dur purpose, which is ‘merely to disabuse the public mind, and vindicate the memory of a brave and honorable gentleman, will be served by a simple statement of the facts, as well as we can recollect them. Leigh Beed wa* . 0 f Tennessee. He came to Tallahassee, Florida, atxrnt the year 1831 or ’33, and entered the law othce of Gen. U. K. Call, at that time a prominent lawyer and leading politician of the Jaeksonian-Democratic school. Modest and retiring in his man ners young Reed mixed very little with the public, while he devoted himself al most exclusively to study, taking no ac tive part in public affairs. Though of opposite politics he was personally at tached to General Call, and it was in rc- sentng what he regarded as an imputatoin upon the General’s character, on the elec tion ground durinjj the contest between Genera] Call and Hon. Joseph M. White, for delegate to Congress, that he became involved in a quarrel with Oscar White, a nephew of the latter gentleman. This quarrel led to a hostile meeting between White and Reed, on the race course, near Tallahassee, in which both com batants were wounded, and in which both men behaved with coolness and gallantry. On the breaking out of the Seminole war in ’183-i, Leigh Reed joined the Florida volunteers under Gen. Call, and was wounded in the battle of Withlacoochee. The Florida forces were formed on the north hank of the river, in the immediate vicinity of the battle field, but did not cross the stream. Gen. Clinch with his small force having engaged the Indians on the oppo site bank, Reed, with one or two others swam the river, joined Clinch's troops, and fought gallantly through the battle, receiving a severe wound, but keeping the fielatill the victory was won. Returning to Tallaljassee General Seed raised a betmjjfcm, uffijch wnugaaded during trie camyaigu of The manner of that bloody tragedy is too well known to Georgia and Florida reiiders to need rehearsal, and we allude to it here, in its proper connection, only for the purpose of correcting the false impression conveyed by the statements of the writer whose article we are consider ing. After the affair at the hotel, as we have stated. Colonel Alston did not lin ger in Tallahassee, was not confined to his bed by his wounds, anil (lid pot meet General Koed in tliu street, but made his j escape front the city, and on the day of the tragedy, as at tic time of the attack at the hotel, was not known to be in the city either by Governor Brown or any one else, except it may have been by some of his partisans, who did not dis close his secret. The facts are these: General Reed, who was now United States Marshal of the territory, had resign ed his office with a view to remove with his family to Tennessee. On that day, with his wife, he had come to the city to de liver up his official papers, aud was walk ing along what is now the principal business street of the town in company with a friend, when, after they had passed a small untenanled frame building some ten or fifteen steps, the door of the building was suddenly thrown open. Als ton appeared with a double-barrelled gun, from which he discharged a heavy !cgd of buckshot into Reed’s Lack, breaking his arm, aa.i as the General turned to face his assailant and attempted to draw a small pistol from his pocket he re ceived a second charge of buckshot in his breast, and fell dead in the street. Alston was arrested and lodged in jail for safe keeping, under c strong guard, <is rescue by his friends was apprehended, On the following day, UI \ery soon after, he was brought before a board of magis trates and hail in heavy bonds taken for his appearance for trial! When released from custody he fled to Tcsas Of course his bad °"r, Torfeited. But 0“ investigation it was found that the bonds were utterly void, not nav- ing been taken m accordance with the law before a hoard of three qualified magistrates. Three magistrates officiated, but it was afterwards found that one of them was not qualified to act as his commission had some time before expired. Thus Alston’s bondsmen were released. Col. Willis Alston was never again seen in Georgia or Florida. He returned to Texas, where he met a vio lent and a lawless death, not howev- e • while returning wounded from a duel on the prairie. Shortly after reaching the place of his " former a!>ode in Texas he met at a country store a party of gentlemen who had been upon a deer-drive. They had set their loaded guns down bv the 'door of the store and were partaking of some refresh ments when Alston came up. The news of General Reed's death had reached them. One of the party, a voung Doctor Stewart, formerly of Tallahas see. had received a letter from a friend giving him the full particulars of the tragedy. The subject being alluded to. Alston stated that he had fought a duel with General Reed and killed him, upon which Dr. Stewart replied that such was not the fact, that he had fought no duel with General Reed, hut had shot him down in the streets of Tallahassee. A few fierce words ensued on both sides, when both the men sprang towards the loaded guns standing by the door. Each seized a gun. Stewart "fired first, but in the excitement missed his aim, when Al ston fired, and Stewart fell to the ground dead. Alrio^ was aiwsted and lodged in a ve^- insecure log jail But fearing trial WILL OFFER THIS DAY: OKE THOUSAND YARDS Black Caclimcre at 85c. Fifty per cent, less than last week's prices. ONE THOUSAND YARDS Black Caclmicre at $1 00. Fifty per cent, less than last week's prices. ONE THOUSAND YARDS Black Caiimiere at $1 25. Actual measurement 48 inches. Would be good value for $ 1 60. FIVE THOUSAND YARDS ALL 1V(H!L DRESS MODS At 30, 35, 40, 50c. Just one-half what they cost to import. TWENTY FIVE HUNDRED YARDS COIRETTE SUITINGS At 8, 10, 12, 20c. ONE HUNDRED PIECES BLACK ALPACA 33% per cent, off former prices. TWENTY CASES BLEACHED SHIRTING At 25 per cent, off last week's prices. 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A large assortment of Fine GENTS' SLIPPERS. Hand-sewed and Cable GAITERS and BOOTS. GREAT BARGAINS. JULIUS SPAXIER, 149 CONGRESS STREET. decU-tf