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J. H. EST1LL,
Savannah. Ga.
(.con:
i;i Affairs.
an- sending their boys
ise there is no suitable
\rn tor instruction pur-
ran deplores this state of
mnees it a disgrace to
should be the case. It
ere that it would be far
their Interest to erect a
educate their boys at
v seven cents a dozen in Car-
need planter attributes the
- -<> prevalent among horses in
i) of the State to the light
last year. Stock should
very best of corn,
unt v negro carried three two
i sacks of guano a distance of
ards. lie took a sack in each
,,k the third sack between his
-ame negro,” says the Augusta
>Id any mule or chicken in that
hind leg.” That may be so as
mule, but we trust our eon-
ill permit us to express our
ruing the chicken.
•a reports two more cases
being killed in that city on
Whit Taylor was severely
hand, and is in great fear lest
a victim to hydrophobia,
f a negro boy who was drowned
a the day of the burning of
11s. the 20th of February, was
iday in the river, where it had
:he canal.
children one day last week
.. deat h near Antioch. It ap-
\ were left alone in the cabin
«->s parents, and while playing
he lire, their clothing caught,
• fatally burned before assist-
■ains of last month have
losses of stock in Bryan
[nan from Harris county informs
L ,n Journal that he has never seen
• aring tip and bringing old fields
Lion as the farmers of his county
this season. Nearly every pine
ws the effect of the axe, and the
l rails lie scattered over a liun-
It is also said that they are deal-
renerally in guano, and every
L is made for a large cotton crop.
' .-uggests that they make at least
■ do them.
J Holmes, of Taliafero county,
tii.* following cure for Bog cholera,
pronouuces it infallible: “For every -
! uf year-old hogs give one table-
ul of spirits of turpentine mixed with
,f shelled corn once in tlirce weeks;
i_' r nogs decrease the dose in pro-
Mr. Holmes says he has tried this
• for years, and he has never lost but
ring the time, and that was by neg-
GUgh t
E. A.
he city of Griffin is Interested in the sub-
of compromising her bouded debt,
. h amounts to $100,000. A compromise
: . ii offered the creditors and most of
in have accepted.
i- currently reported In Columbus that
i;.• s in Boston have bought the North and
Hi Railroad from tlie Board of Trustees,
whom the road was conveyed in trust,
conditions of the transfer, as far as can
i>.-. rtain. il, are that the purchaser obli-
himx-lf to extend the road to Chipley
hin fi.ur months, and further, that it will
, under any circumstances, be operated
m-t the interest of Columbus. The
says of this road that it is the hope
t olumbus, and everything connected
: it is of the deepest interest to all of
. community.
somewhat curious that Sunday last,
d.iy on which the great tornado visited
nit.i. and did so much damage there,
the twenty-fifth anniversary of a simi-
t rm which visited Columbus March
i. 1 s;>d. We leant from the Tin** that
it was a terrible day, and those who re
nt -cr it can well appreciate the tenors
•ii li elemental disturbances. In that
m the tin covering of warehouses was
■il up like paper and blown a mile away;
hail stones fell as large as were ever
wn in this section. The damage done
he town by wind and hail was estimated
in- hundred thousand dollars.”
tic fanning prospects of the western
ion of Franklin county are said to be
r flattering.
r. 8. M. Ayres, of Carnerville, has
irht the right of Franklin, Hart and
•rt counties to what is said to be one of
best patents ever introduced in that
ion. It is a patent garden set. A handle
thich can be fastened a hoe, rake, plow,
, in fact, everything that is needed in
king a garden.
lie Grangers of Taylor's creek, Liberty
ity, have adopted a novel plan for the
ulation of industry. They have agreed
lant an acre each of rom. the one pro-
mg the »>est yield to taka the whole.
••re is another proof of the fact that
rgia is the best place for Georgians,
out regard to race, color or previous
lit ion: “In 1874 forty-two negroes re-
I from the plantation of M. A. Potts,
r roe county, to the West, locating in
i»ippi. Last weak Henry Blackwell,
of the number, returned and informed
Potts that of the forty-two who Jeft the
ity. thirty-two were dead.”
•i.ier the head of ‘‘A Cheerful Pros-
" the Forsyth Advertiser thus discants :
He.'d commenced yesterday morning
auv*v the debris of the burnt block,
'ruks had hardly become cold before
an removed to make room for the new
i-ture. lie has Gtnploved all the hands
.m get and wants on* hundred Wf**- L*"
r< cannot longer complain that they
i..t get work. There is work for ail who
tit. The expenditure of thousands of
irs in this enterprise will make all de
ments of business active. M e expected
11 summer ahead of us, but the expen-
re of so much money in Forsyth will
•e the summer months to be about us
y in trade and traffic as when the
»u crop is being marketed.”
there is any offence in this the Americas
tUU-nn is reKjxjnsible for it: “A snorts-
went hunting the other day, and was
v enough to kill some ducks upon the
*r. and while he was stooping down,
liing for the fruit* of his labor, be did not
ee a companion in the shape of a moo
ns bill v goat, and before he could make
escape over he went into the water.
*n he scrambled out he was rip-roarious,
being of religious persuasion, the last
it-ard of him'he was trying to hire some-
v to ‘cuss’ that goat and his bad luck for
>rk of getting cross ties for the El-
ir-Line Railroad has commenced in
and, says the Gazette, daily
line* made by those wishing to em-
ds relative to procuring them for
A coup'.e of contractors wc now
in Elberton on account oi the
»f laborers, and are anxious to era-
p to complete their section of the
lrit-class hands can get ten dollars
itb and board, and get it at once,
and is urgent, and now is the time
■ out of employment to come in and
emunerative work.”
iville Rtgidcr: “Onl> three men are
n Can.esville now that were here
h ears ago, and the majority of the
have mated in the tart ore yens.”
J. II. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1878.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
On Sunday evening of the Sd inst., as the
5°'- *»' ,lue > Anthony was preaddng at
hHrt suddenY Stricken with
I , . - ' .mci-ji nuitM-11 HHU
»aralvsis of the tongue, and so completely
ost the power of speech that he was forced
lo stop his discourse. The Mirror savs-
Singular to say he was affected in a similar
manner six years ago while filling the pul
pit of our minister, and we believe preach
ing on the same subject, and these two oc
casions are the only ones on which he ever
felt any difficulty of speaking.”
^riethorpe Echo: “The grumblers sav
the times are hard and worse are coming.’
>\e have heard this old song all our lives,
and yet we have always had plenty to eat
and wear. Roll up your sleeves and go to
work, man, and hush grumbling, and bard
times will not trouble you much.”
The Talbotton Iinjixtnr urges on its sec
tion the importance of improving the roads,
it says they are as had as they can be, and
adds: If the entire control of the public
roads was delegated to the County Commis
sioners, and they would adopt the system in
vogue in England, France, and in some parts
or the l nited States, but j* short time would
elapse before even- highway in the countrv
would be a turnpike, and in perfect order
for travel at all seasons of the year. The
system indicated is simply the employment
of a sufficient force under a competent su
pervisor. who shall be kept on the roads all
the year round. It would be well if the
criminal laws of the State were so amended
as to keep all convict* in their respective
counties, to be employed for their several
terms of sentence on public works of all
kinds. We need reform in this matter, and
it is time for the people to give heed to the
economic importance of good roads/
Speaking of the Glynn County Fair,
which is to come off on the 29th and 30th of
May next, the Brunswick Seninrt Appeal
says: “As its failure or grand success is a
matter in which every citizen of our county
is an interested party, and as the time is
now fast approaching, we trust that all will
realize that it is incumbent upon each in
dividual to do some act, furnish some
exhibit which will tend to show the re
sources of our county, that visiting
strangers may appreciate the fact, that old
Glynn can furni.-h products from both sea
and land which tend to make her people
prosperous and happy, as any other county
upon the Atlantic seaboard.”
The Atlanta Tribune wants the Legislature
to pass an act authorizing the City Council
to let out the work of the city to the .lowest
bidder. It does this in the interest of
economy, and says: “Council can advertise
for proposals to keep the streets in order,
light the city, furnish charities, meet the
interest on bonds, pay the police, keep up
the schools, and in fact bear every expense
that the city should. The bidders would lie
required to give bond with good security for
strict compnaace with their contracts. The
bidder can see from the city books exactly
what has been s{n*nt by the City Council,
and as a prudent man, can judge what he
could afford to do the iob for. The Mayor
and Council could lie elected, and it should
be their duty to see the contract complied
with. The Mayor’s office could t»e honorary,
with no salary attached. In this wav the ex
penses of the city would be considerably re
duced. ”
Griffin AW*: “The wife of a sexton be
longing to one of the churches in a very
healthy locality, was last week Interrupted
in the middle of a harangue upon the hard
ness of the times by a person who desired to
sell her a couple of ducks. ‘Ducks!’ ex
claimed she, ‘how can I buy ducks or any
thing else? We have not buried a living
soul iu six months.”
Florida Affairs.
The Washington 7btf, having attempted
lately to make fun of Conover's hat, wound
up its remarks by advising him to “shoot”
it, saying that it would pay for a new one.
The next day the /W office received the fol
lowing bill:
“Washington, D. C., Feb. 22, 1878.
“Mr. Editor of the Post,
“Bought of B. H3tinemetz,
“Hatter and Furrier. 1237 1‘a. av.. One
soft hat for Senator Conover, as
per notice in The Post of this date, §5.
“Received Payment.
“Approved— B. H. Stinemctz.
“S. B. Conov—
The ibsf says “We paid the bill,” and
probably it now realizes that it is dangerous
to offer anything to a Southern carpet-bag
ger even in jest. That style of gentry make
it a rule to take everything they can get
their hands on.
Professor Tripp, who lately delivered cer
tain lectures iu this city, is making a tour of
Florida.
They are shipping green peas from the
neighborhood of Gainesville, Fla., to the
North.
There is a young man in Montieello who
has served on the jury at every term of court
siuce he reached his majority. He is al*>ut
tw-enty-fiye years of age, and makes a model
juior.
The Cedar Key State Journal learns that the
tri-weekly mail service from that point to
Havana will be begun on the 1st of April.
It is encouraging to read that new houses,
fences and various other kinds of improve
ments meet the eye on all sides in Feman-
diua, and the sound of hammer and saw are
heard almost constantly.
W. F. Lee, the newly appointed Postmas
ter at Pensacola, has received his commis
sion and entered upon his duties.
The Pensacola Echo of the 8th contains
the salutatory of its new editor, Mr. W. A.
Blount.
“The variety of our soil,” says the Palatka
Herald, “constitutes its peffection. In de
veloping our resources we must have the
will and energy to work out the glorious
future. Millions, now starving for want of
bread, could with energy soou provide
comfortable homes, and enjoy the luxury
of our golden fruit. If the philanthropists
of the North <-ould be induced to lay out
their capital here instead of building
houses of refuge at the North, they would
soon see the fruits of their charitable in
vestments.”
The new schooner General F- E- Spinner,
was successfully launched In Jacksonville
on Saturday last. She was christened by
Miss H. Josio Abbott's breaking the bottle
of champagne on her deck. She has 121
feet length of keel, 32 feet breadth of beam,
and Is of 500.94 . tons burthen. She is said
to be a very handsome, well built craft.
The young men of Msdisou arc ambitious
of forming themselves into a base ball club,
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher is at Mandarin,
Fla., on a visit to her sister-in-law, 3lrs.
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
The subject of the culture of the Chinese
flat peach is tiecoming of interest to the
citizens of Florida. It has been grown suc
cessfully there by 4 Mr. A. J. Yniestra, after
many failures by fruit growers in other sec
tions of the South. That geutiemaL * rites
to the Pensacola Advance regarding this
fruit that it, “in his opinion, belongs to
this ctittMit'*, and regrets that he is not now
prepared to suppi, pita or seedlings. He
has a great mauy bearing Uee» of that peach,
one of which bore over twelve hundred
matured peach**. They have now fruit
larger than a buckshot, aoo art* full leaved,
and will mature in May. For shipment they
nfill bear transportation better than any
other peach. Some were sbipjwd last spring
to New York, Pennsylvania and other re
mote places, and iu everycase the
received without blemish.Condng as this fruit
W»e« w ean* to maturitv. aud being withal
“ many advantages that
will ere long place it ft the front rank of
Florida fruits. ,r
Sualand Tribune: “Our prospect for aline
of communication with Pensacola is favora
ble- until that is accomplished our \\ estera
friends must suffer sonje inconveniences in
reaching this section/'
Lake City Reporter: “The fartmas *?e be
ginning to appreciate the advantage of a
small plat of rye sown in the early fall. He
hear of two men who had rye. and * hen
their hogs were attacked with cholera turned
them upon it, aud whiiu tfcefr neighbors lost
nearlv all their hogs, theirs upon the iy e
pasture recovered from their sickness. One
of the parties to! his hogs daily with salted
meal, while the other simply allowed his to
run upon the pasture/’
The members of the General Passenger
and Ticket AgeuU’ Association, late in ses
sion in Jacksonville, were tendered a de
lightful excursion on the steamer Hampton
frem that city to St. Augustine. W bile on
the trip they adopted the following resolu-
U °\VUEREA9, The pleasures of the excursion
f ,j .i... from Jacksonville to St. Augus-
tine. *nd ill., mw graceful
tentied the intinLcrj of the general Ticket
Agent*’ Association and iholr lnvlted guesU
upon the delightful trip front (be mo»t nour
ishing city of Florida to the most sucieut
town on the continent, demand formal re-1
... . a I.. ak ..fora j
An enthusiasti<* correspondent of the Lees
burg Advance writes as follows : “The vicin
ity of Scott’s Mills, in the northwestern por
tion of the county, is the garden spot of
Sumter. We raise more of everything to
eat than all the rest of the county put to
gether. We have more hogs and fatter ones
than you can find anywhere else in twenty-
five miles of Leesburg. We raise bacon to
sell, and it's the best kind of bacon, too.
Our cattle ‘feed upon a thousand hills,’ or,
which is all the same, a thousand cattle feed
upon every hill. Now, we have no hills,
but that makes no difference, for we have
plenty of cattle to put on them when the
hills grow. This is the best country for
sh»ck this side of the Kissimee river. Our
horses and other stock are the finest aud
fattest in the country.*’
Pensacola is looking up. The Echo says :
“The railroad w harf presents quite a busi
ness-like appearance. Ice house wharf has
some ships alongside, and Palafox wharf is
all astir. Heron's wharf is quite complete
and shows up well. Several vessels are
alongside. Perdido Railroad wharf is very
lively, indeed, with numerous vessels around
it loading with Florida lumber.”
Savs the Palatka Herald: “The St. John's
and Indian River Horse Car Railroad is eight
miles long—from Salt Lake to Titusville, on
Indian river. It is well built, and facilitates
travel to that section very materially. Mr.
W. II. Churchill is the Superintendent.
The Volusia and other steamers connect at
Salt Lake. Just such a road is needed from
Silver Spring to Ocala, and our Ocala friends
ought ‘to see to it’ that no time is lost in
building it.”
“/frjirJwf, That the thanks of this associa
tion are due, aud are hereby tendered, to the
officers of the Old Dominion Steamship
Company and the St. John's Railroad Com
pany for the facilities of transmutation so
kindly furnished by them, and to John
Clark, Esq., agent of the Steamship Line,
Captain Starke and Purser Gallagher, of the
steamer Hampton, and J. M. Haliowes, Esq.,
General Ticket Agent of the St. John's Rail
road, for their courteous treatment of their
delighted guests.”
Jacksonville Sun and I*re*x: “The first
sailing vessel built at Jacksonville was the
bark American Eagle in 1858. Her dimen
sions were : Length of keel, IS feet, breadth
of beam 30 feet and tt inches, depth of hold
11 feet S inehes, tonnage 305. Sue was last
suneyed in July, 18»i, and rated 1}*'. She
is still a good vessel and stands high with
the insurance companies. G. H. Squire A
Co., of New York, are her owners. The
American Eagle sailed from New York in
August last for Rio Janeiro.”
Commenting on the fact that it is
customary to teach school children that
South Florida is only one grand morass,
unfit for human tieings to dwell in.the Tainpa
Guardian remarks: “Now all that we have to
say to persons who entertain such opinions
is, come aud see for yourselves. We are not
disposed to underrate other sections, and if
we were, it would not be necessary to build
up this section, for its merits will ‘speak for
itself, and the goodness of the country be
comes its own advocate.”
Emigration to Liberia.
.8/. Louis Republican.
The Cincinnati Commercial says that
“more than 200,000 colored people have
signified their readiness to depart for Li
beria;” that “when once this movement
is fairly under way there will In* a greater
exodus from the tftutli than has lieen an
ticipated," aud that “the only danger to
Ik* apprehended is that the means of
transportation will lie altogether inade
quate to answer the demands/’ These—
according to the Commercial—are the
causes of the emigration to Liberia:
“The colored people have given up all
hope of fair treatment and equitable po
litical privileges in their own country
and propose to go to a land where the
prejudices of race are in their favor and
not against them. * * *
“It is useless to deplore this move
ment or try* to avert it so long as the
colored people of the United States feel
that they are subject to ill-treatment here
and that their rights ns free men will not
be respected by their white ueighliors.
The desire to escape from oppression,
which led the lAiritans to abandon
Europe and take refuge on the inhospi
table shores of New England, and which
in our ow n day, and especially after the
calamities of 1847 and 1848, led to the
great Irish exodus, will operate with
powerful effect upon the colored people
of the United States and send them by
the hundreds of thousands to the west
coast of Africa, where at least they will
have and enjoy all the political and civil
rights that citizenship in a free govern
ment implitts.”
Without wishing to put the smallest
obstacle in the way of the African exo
dus we may remark that so far as
rights, privileges, opportunities and ad
vantages are concerned, the colored peo
ple have no grounds for complaint. 1 hey
have been emancipated and enfranchised,
and placed upon a perfect civil and po
litical equality with the whites. Every
thing that legislation can do for them has
been done; and if, under all these favor
ing circumstances, they cannot live peace
fully and prosperously with the whites the
fault is their own, or nature is responsible
for it. If there is any “oppression” it is
of a kind that no laws can reach, much
less cure; and if African citizenship in
America is such a painful failure, by all
means let it be tried in Africa. But we
predict that the future of Liberia will
prove as its past has done, that the Afri
can race does not possess those intellec
tual and moral qualifications which are
absolutely necessary for permanent and
successful nationality. Tlie negro is “a
man and a brother,” but the maehineiy
of self government was left out of his
composition—and lie cannot get it by go
ing to Liberia, or by staying here.
The Ghost of a Flea.
Blake, the painter, an exhibition of
whose works was held a short time ago,
seems to have been an extraordinary be
ing. Blake’s visions, as be describes
them to his friends, are excellently noted
down by that clever writer and poet,
Allan Cunningham;
“I saw,” said I, “a naked figure, with
a strong body and a short neck—with
burning eyes which long for moisture,
and a face worthy of a murderer—hold
ing a bloody cup in its clawed hands, out
of which it seems eager to drink. I never
saw any shape so strange, nor did I ever
ay
world is it
“It is a ghost, sir; the ghost of a flea—a
spiritualization of the thing!”
“He saw this in a vision, then?” I suid.
‘Til tell you all about it, sir. I called
on him one evening, and found Blake
more than usually excited. He told me
he had seen a wonderful thing—the ghost
of a flea!”
“4nd did you make a drawing of him?”
I inqmreq.
“No, indeed,” said ft?, “I visb I had;
but I shall if he appears again/'
He looked earnestly into a corner of
the room and then said:
“Here he is! Beach me my things. I
shall keep my eve on him. There he
comes! His eager tongue waking out of
his mouth, a cup in his hand to hold
blood, and covered with a scaly skin of
gold and green C
As he described him. so he drew him.
Something to Start thk Beveren-
tial Tear.—An aged man, with the
snowrs of many winters upon his venera
ble head, and his body bent under the
accumulated weight ot years, was hit
plump in the with a snow hall yester-
ilav afternoon on Main sUeet. There
was something of the old fire of his youth
in his uninjured eye, and tears and red
ness in the other, as in his virtuous indig
nation Li* f.qrm towered erect and he
shook his flst at tliu rvG&iti.ng bad small
bovand exclaimed: ‘’I wish I may ft?
Id
iu a minute if I wouldn't
make you think an earthquake had land
ed athwart your ear if I hail you within
wui/il, a! tKic iv. u u 1 r’ fl't YOU voting
reach of this good right band, you young
cub of the devil." But when the gam iu
derisively placed his thumb to his uosc
und spread his fingers like a fan it was
more than human nature could bear, and
the poor old man, whose sands of life
were running so low, went into the
nearest saloon and in tearful accents re
quested the barkeeper to ttx him up a
hot Scotch, and “be sure and put lots of
sour in it."—Austin (A>t.) Reveille.
U1WU UU UiC VUUI.-V —,
cognition at our hands; therefore,
How doth the little busy “bum"
Improve each Saturday night.
When who should be a sleep at ‘
hontbestiwu*^ 5tm
“hum”
JEFF DAVIS’ CAPTURE.
The Version Authorized by the Ex-
Coulederate President-Denial of
the Female IMh-uI-m Story-< olonel
William Prewton JohnntoiTa Ac
count of the Affair.
Richmond Correspondence .Yeic Fork Herald.
Innumerable stories of the flight and
capture of Jefferson Davis have been
published both North and South by
writers in both sections. Until now,
however, .Jefferson Davis’ own account
has never been in print. The Southern
Historical Society Pajiers in its March
issue, will contain a full narrative of that
memorable affair, written by Major W.
T. Walthall, the private secretary of Mr.
Davis. It is known here that this article
was gotion up under the eye of Mr.
Davis, and under his special supervision,
and it is therefore regarded as Davis’
own account of his flight and capture.
The writer says:
On the evening of the second day
(which was the 9th of May) preparations
were made for departure immediately
after nightfall, when Col. W. P. John
ston returned from a neighboring village
witli the report that a band of one bun
dred and fifty men were to attack the
camp that night.
Meantime his horse (Davis’) already sad
died, with his holsters and blanket in
pku*e, was in charge of his body servant
and be himself was lying clothwl, booted
and even spurred, w’hen, a little after
daybreak, the alarm was given that the
camp was attacked. Springing to his
feet and stepping out of the tent, he saw
at once, from the manner in which the
assailants were deploying around the
camp, that they were trained soldiers and
not irregular banditti, and returning, he
so informed Mrs. Davis.
As we have said, the President was al
ready fully dressed. He hastily look
leave of his wife, who threw’ over his
shoulders a water proof cloak or wrapper,
either as a protection from the dampness
of the early morning, or in the hope that
it might serve as a partial disguise, or
Iierhaps with woman’s read}’ and rapid
thoughtfulness of its possible use for
iKitli these purposes. Mrs. Davis also
directed a female servant, who was pres
ent, to hike an empty bucket and accom
pany him in the direction of the spring,
his horse, on the other side of the camp,
being cut off from access by the interpo
sition of the assailants.
He had advanced only a few steps from
the door of the tent when he was chal
lenged by a mounted soldier, who present
ed his carbine and ordered him to “surren
der.” The answer was: “I never surren
der to a band of thieves.” The carbine
was still presented, but the man refrained
from tiring—it is but fair to presume from
an unwillingness to kill his adversary—
while the President continued to advance.
This was uot from detqieration or fool
hardy recklessness, but of delilierate pur
pose. * * * Observing that the man,
who was finely mounted, was so near as
to lie considerably above bim, be had lit
tie apprehension of lieing hit, and
believed that by taking advantage
of the excitement of the shot,
he might easily tip him from the
saddle and get juissession of his
horse. The feasibility of this design was
not to be tested, however, for at this
moment Airs. Davis, seeing only his dan
ger, and animated by a characteristic
and heroic determination to share* it, ran
forward and threw her arms around his
neck, with some impassioned exclama
tion, which probably none of the parties
present would be able to repeat correctly.
The only hope of escape had depended
uyon bringing the matter to an immedi
ate issue, and, seeing that this was now
lost, the President simply said, “God’s
will be done,” as he quietly turned back
and seated himself upon a fallen tree,
near which a camp tire was burning.
A letter written by Colonel W llliam
Preston .Johnston, late aide to Mr. Davis,
to the writer of the article, Alajor Wal-
thal, confirms this statement:
Lexinoton, Va., July 14,1877.
Major W. T. Walthall, M<Jnle, Ala.:
My Dear Sir—Your letter has just
come to hand, and I reply at once.
Wilson’s monograph is written with a
very strong animus, not to say virus. It
is in no sense historical. It licars upon
its face all the marks of special pleading.
He states as matters of fact numberless
circumstances which could not be of bis
own knowledge, and which be must have
picked up as rumor or mere gossip.
Single errors of thus sort are blemishes;
but when they are* grouped and used as
fact and argument, they become, what
you truly call them, “calumny.”
For instance, Airs. Davis is’represont<*d
as leaving Richmond with the President.
Aly recollection is that she left some
weeks beforehand. Bi\*ckinridge left on
horseback, and went to General Lee, re
joining Air. Davis at Danville. I do not
doubt that all the account of “the prepa
rations for fiight” is purely fictitious.
His statement of the conditions of the
armistice is incorrect.
You will have the facts of our retreat
and capture froiq many sources. Aly best
plan is to tell you only what I know and
saw myself. The testimony is chiefly
negative, but in so far as it goes wifi
probably aid you. Aly understanding
was that we were to part with Mrs. Da
vis’ train on the morning of the 9th. We
did not, and the President continued to
rid** in the ambulance. He was si» k and
a good deal exhausted, but was not the
man to say anything aliout it. The day
previous he had let little Jeff shoot his
derringers at a mark, and handed me one
of the unloaded pistols, which he asked
me to cam’, as it incommoded him. At
that time I spoke to him about the size of
our train and our route, aliout which I
had uot previously talked, as he had said
nothing aud did not wish to force his
confidence. It was, however, distinctly
understood that we were going to Texas.
I, that day, said to him that
I did not believe we could get
West through Alississippi. and that by
rapid movements and a bold attempt by
sea from the Florida coast we were more
likely to reach Texas safely and promptlv.
He replied, “It is true—even’ negro In
Alississippi knows me.” I also talked
with Judge Reagan and Colonel Wood
on this topic. Tho impression left on
my own mind was, however, that Air.
Davis intended to turn west south of
Albany; but I bad no definite idea of his
P urpose whether to go by sea or land,
ndeed, my scope of duty was simply to
follow ana obey him; and. so long as I
was not consulted, I was well content to
do this and no more. I confess I did not
have great hopes of escape, though not
apprehensive at the time of capture, as
our scouts, ten picked men, were ex
plicit that no Federals were near and that
pickets were out. Both of these were
errors. On the night of the 9th I was
very much w*orn out with travel and
watching, and lay down at the foot of a
pine tree to sleep.
Just at gray dawn Air. Davis’ servant
Jim awakened me. He said, “Colonel,
do you hear that tiring?” J sprang ud
ancf said, “Run and wake the President.
He did so. Hearing nothing as I pulled
on my Imots, I walked to the camp fire,
some fiftv or less steps off, and asked the
cook if Jim was not mistaken. At this
moment I saw eight or ten men charging
down the road toward me. I thought
they were* guerillas trying to stampede
the’stock. I ran to my saddle, where* I
had slept, and began unfastening the
holster to get out my revolver, but they
Wen* too < fuick for me. Three men rode
up and demanded my pistol, which, as
soon as I got out, I gave up to the leader,
a bright, slim, soldierly fellow, dressed
in Confederate gray clothes. The same
nan, I lielieve, captured Colonels Wood
and Lubbock just jifter. One of my
captors ordered me to the caiqp fire* aud
stood guard over me. I soon became
aware that they were Federals.
In the meantime the firipg want on.
After about ten minutes, maylie more,
my guard left me, and I walked over to
Airs. Davis’ tent, about fifty yards off.
Mrs. Davis was in great distress. I said
to the President, w ho was sitting outside
on a camp stool, “This is a bad business,
sir.” He replied, supposing I knew
about the circumstances of his capture,
“f would have heaved the scoundrel off
his horse as he came up. but she caught
me around the arms." I understood
what he meant, now that he had pro
posed to dismount the trooper and get
his horse, for he had taught me the trick.
I merelv replied, “It would have been
ii-S' 1 ess.""
Air. Davis was dressed as usual, ne
had on a knit woolen visor, w’hich he al
ways wore at night for neuralgia. He
wore* cavalry boots. He complained of
chilliness and said they hail taken away
his “Raglan.” I believe they were so
called, alight aquascutum or spring over
coat, sometimes called a “waterproof. ”
I had one exactly similar, except in
color. I went to look for it, and either
I, or some one at my instance, found it
and he wore it afterward. His own was
not n stored.
As I was looking for his coat, the firing
still continuing. I met a mounted officer,
who, if I am not mistaken, was a Captain
Hudson. Feeling that the cause was
lost, and not wishing useless bloodshed
I said to him, “Captain, your men are
fighting each other over yonder.” He
auswered very positively, “Y'ou have an
armed escort. I replied. “You have our
whole camp; I know your men are fight
ing each other. We have nobody on
that side of the slough.” He then'rode
off. Colonel Lubbock had a conversation
nearly identical with (’olonel Pritchard
who was not polite I believe. You can
learn from Colonel Lubbock about it.
Not lon£ afterward, seeing Air. Davis
in altercation with an officer—Colonel
Priteliard—I went up. Air. Davis was
denunciator}* in his remarks. The ac
count given by Wilson is fabulous, ex
cept so far as Mr. Davis’ remark is con
ceraed, that “their conduct was not that
of gentlemen, but ruffians.” Pritchard
did not make the reply attributed to him;
I could swear to that. Aly recollection
is that he suid in substance, and in an
offensive manner, “that he (Davis) was a
prisoner and eonld afford to talk so,”
and walked away. Colonel Hamden's
manner was conciliatory, if he was the
other officer If am not mistaken, the
first offense was addressing Air. Davis as
“Jeff." or some such rude familiarity.
But this you can verify. I tried just
afterward to reconcile Air. Davis to the
situation.
On the route to Alacon, three days
afterward, Airs. Davis complained to me
with great bitterness that her trunks had
been ransacked, the contents taken out
and tumbled back with the leaves stick
ing to them. * * * I never heard of
Air. Davis’alleged disguise until I saw it
in a New York HeraUl the day I got to
Fort Delaware. I was astonished and
denounced it as a falsehood. The next
day I was placed in solitary confinement
and remained there. I did not believe it
possible that these ten days could have
lieen passed with our captors without an
allusion to it if it had not been an after
thought or something to be kept from us.
Very sincerely yours,
William Preston Johnston.
Wonderful Cure by Cremation.
Cincinnati Saturday Night.
Mrs. Boggs had lieen under the weather
for two or three days. At least she said
she was, but these attacks came rather
frequently, Boggs thought, for when his
wife was having one of her spells he had
to cook the meals and do all the house
work. We don't remember what par
ticular state the weather was in this last
time, hut Airs. Boggs was under it, and
she was under it very liad. She even
told Boggs that she didn’t lielieve she
was ever going to get up out of it, and
she made a hysterical request that he
bury her in some may q*ot where the
birds might come and sing to her, and
she made him promise that he would
bring her flowers once a week and scatter
them over her grave. A dozc.i times
that day was Boggs called from his work
in the kitchen tef bid a last farewell to
his dying wife, but still she lingered.
He had been through this experience a
He had been through this experience a
great many times liefore, so be wasn’t
so much alarmed as he might otherwise
might
have been.
That night as he sat watching, like the
affectionate husband, he was, at her bed
side, she saw' that he was deeply en
grossed in a I look.
“What liook are you reading, dear?"
she faintly asked.
“A railroad guide, my love,” was the
replv.
“NVhatdoyou want with a railroad
guide?” she inquired.
“I want to sec how far it is to Wash
ington, Pa., and how the trains run,”
said Air. Boggs.
She would have asked him w hat he had
to do with Washington, Pa, but he got
up and went out, and she fell into a doze,
the inclination to which she didn't care to
repress, even though it delayed the final
departure* that she had so often prated
about. When she awoke she saw Boggs
bending over her with a candle. He evi
dent ly hadn't observed that she was
awake; so, closing her eyes, she feigned
sleep, and overheard the following solilo
quy., which sufficiently explained to her
now thoroughly aw’akened senses his in
quiry of the railroad guide aliout the
route to Washington, Pa: “Splendid
subject for cremation—a little scraggy
(Airs. Boggs' fingers worked nervoudy
under the bed clothes, and she had hard
work to keep from flying at him),
but the scraggy ones incinerate
quicker than the fat ones, the
doctor says. She could be greased if
necessary to make her go quicker. Think
I’ll send her up by express, as I’m too
busy in the store to get away. Her
ashes can lie forwarded to me in an en
velope through the mail. I’ll know
them. [Audible chuckle.] They’ll be
under the weather every few weeks and
want to die. And tlu*y’l) a>k me to lniry
them in some sunny spot where the birds
can come and sing to ’em. I’ll send
word to Dr. LeAIoyne to make it hot for
her—she has kept tilings hot enougli for
me. And I'll tell him to let all the re*
porters in, so as to give her a good send
off through the pajiers, and whoop ’er
up, Liza Jane. Sorry I can’t be there to
stir her up myself, and—”
A thrilling' ear piercing scream came
from the woman under the weather, and
with a bound sufficient to laud her on
top of any weather that ever lived, she
sprang out of bod and bad Boggs by the
ear in a flash, w’hile she fairly screamed:
“You’ll cremate me, will you, you
bald-headed old reprobate! You’ll send
my scraggy liody up to Washington by
express (giving' his ear a wring between
the sentences), and tell that wicked old
wretch, LeAIoyne, to make it hot for me;
and you’ll have my ashes sent to you in
a letter (growing more* and more wratliy,
and thumping him over the head with
the candlestick she had snatched away
from his hand); and bury me in some
sweet, sunny spot (whack!) where the
birds may come and sing (Mng); and you
want the reporters there gluing!) to whoop
’er up Liza Jane (boom!) Oh, you mean,
WTetched. wicked old man, you; I’ll live
a hundred years to spite you, see if I
don’t!”
Then she pushed Boggs out of the door
and bolted it, and lie had to make up a
bunk on the kitchen floor that night,
next to the stove. But a peculiar smile
played about Boggs’ face, even when be
was rubbing the sore spots on his bald
head, and murmured softly to himself,
“Guess I’ve cured her of them spells for
one while.”
Airs. Boggs hasn’t been under the
weather since, but mention of the word
cremation drives her wild.
For some weeks Air. Pierce, who lives
in Georgetown, has heard a peculiar
noise at night, and discovered the gradual
loss of chickens. He came to the con
clusion that it must be made by rats.
Friday night he and his wife were
awakened by a sharp cry of distress
from the cril) adjoining their lied, ft
which their two-year old infant was
sleeping. Mr. Pierce immediately sprang
out ana discovered a weasel at Jus child's
throat. Catching the animal with his
hand, he threw it to the floor, killing It
at once. A few moments later the little
one would certainly have been killed, as
a deep gash was already made in its
throat.— Washington Star.
At Cairo the K bet live placed a palace
at Gen. Grant’s disposal, and accompa
nied him to the pyramids.
NEGLECTED VETERANS.
Befllnc or the Sorvlvlos Soldier* of
the Indian and Vlexlcan War*—A
Memorial to < ou«;reMon the Pend'
Ins Pension Bill.
WHY ANDERS41N SHOULD BE TAR-
DON ED.
At a meeting of the veterans of the
Seminole and Alexican wars held in
Nashville. Tenn.. on Saturday, the Hon.
Jos. C. Guild was chosen to act as Chair
man of the meeting, and Thos. Claiborne
was chosen Secretary. After addresses
from several veterans, among them Gen.
S. R. Anderson and Gov. Neil S. Brown
the following memorial was adopted and
signed:
T> the Honorable the Congress of the
United States:
The undersigned, citizens of the State
of Tennessee, respectfully represent to
your honorable Ixxiy that they are a
portion of the survivors of the Tennessee
volunteers in the Florida campaign of
18*W against the Seminole Indians, and
of the previous campaign of the Creeks,
and also of the Tennessee volunteers in
the war with Alexico in 1845-47. They
have seen with pleasure the pending of a
bill in the House of Representatives to
allow pensions to all who shared in the
sendee in these wars, and also to those
who served in the Black Hawk war.
Your memorialists will not be guilty of
the indelicacy of lauding their own ser
vices. Those campaigns have long since
passed into history, and may be safely
left to vindicate themselves at the
end of several generations. They are*
not afraid to assume, however,
that the services of the Tennessee
brigade in 1816 contributed much toward
the subjugation of the hostile Seminoles,
and the restoration of peace to the beau
tiful and now flourishing State of Flori
da, and that the campaign of the Creeks
in 1813-14 accomplished much towards
the protection of the frontiers. As to
the results of the war with Mexico they
are incalculable; they won for us a new
ocean and a new empire with inexhausti
ble resources. The acquisition of Lou
isiana by Air. Jefferson conferred on him
and his administration a special title to
immortality, and so long as the Alissis
sippi flows down to the sea, it will mur
mur forth his praises. But if we feel
a just pride and gratitude for this
great boon, the result of wise negotia
tions, what shall we say of these western
acquisitions, so vast, so magnificent, we
might almost say, so lioundless. They
were won by the prowess of our citizen
soldiers. Northern and Southern. They
were the price of blood and toil and
sacrifice. And the nation with all iLs
accumulate resources, aided by the
magic wand of art, can never rear so
gorgeous a monument of its own material
progress and glory, as the territory which
stretches on down to the Pacific, con
taining ever}* variety of climate and soil
with inexhaustible mineral resources,
and variegate with mountain, lull, valley
and stream.
Your memorialists believe that the
passage of the pending bill would be
not only just to the beneficiaries, but
would have no small national effect in
increasing the growing fellowship be
tween the sections and obliterating un
pleasant past recollections. A thousand
memories of better and happier days
would lie awakened among the thinned
ranks of those surviving veterans and
their sympathizers!
It is*believed by those best entitled to
It is believed by those best entitled to
judge, that out of the brigade of Tennes
see soldiers in the Florida campaign of
118-16 not more* than one tenth now survived
|and of those who served in the Creek war
not one-twentieth; and of those who were*
enraged in the wrar with Alexico, from
Ti nnessee. not more* than one-fourth sur
vi .e. Alueh of the mortality which has
swept through the ranks of the BoWicra
in these wars is traceable to the effects of
the climate, which sooner or later did its
work. The most of them are* growing
old and are* poor, and if it be legitimate!
to use such an argument, they will not
have to be paid long. Your memorialists
submit their claims for w’hatever they are*
worth, with a perfect confidence iu the
justice and liberality of Congress.
Nashville, Alarch 9, 1878.
At a meeting held in Alaury county,
Tennessee, on Thursday last, the follow
ing memorial was adopted:
To the Honorable Senate and House of
Represent tires of the United States in
Congress assembled:
Your memorialists, being residents of
the county of Alaury and State of Tennes
see. would represent and state to your
honorable Ixidy that they constitute the
remnant of the surviving soldiers of the
wars of the United States against the
Seminole Indians in Florida lioth in the
years 1818 and 1836, and in the w'ar be
tween the United States and Alexico* in
the year 1847; that they are* now far
advancedjin age, and mostly poor and
in indigent circumstances; that they
volunteered their services to defend their
country's rights; and believing it to be
the policy of the government to extend a
bounty and a helping liand to those who
huve been so engaged in the protection
and service of their country, they most
respectfully ask your honorable body to
pn^* a law plac ing them on the pension
roll list of the United States, and under
the same conditions as has been extended
to the officers and soldiers of other wars
of our government; they ask that their
reasonable request may be granted, that
they may be enabled to sustain them
selves in more comfort in their few’ de
clining years, and for such relief they
will as in duty bound ever pray.
These memorials have been signed by
the surviving soldiers of the Seminole,
Creek. Black Hawk and Alexican wars, and
forwarded to the Tennessee delegation, to
lie presented to Congress.
The Eyes of the Egyptians.—The
poorly fed donkeys w’ere tried to the
utmost to carry us back to the steamer,
and scores of the half-blind, sore-eyed
Arabs kept pace during the entire two
hours’ ride. A traveler in Egypt is sur
prised at the amount of ophthaima and
sightless eyes seen among the natives.
Want of cleanliness is the cause of the
epidemic, but the dead eyes proceed from
the most shocking causes. Through
some inhuman superstition an Egyptian
mother never has her child's eyes washed
until eight days after birth, by which
time the organ is frequently ruined.
Again, it is said that formerly the men
physical
I no longer be sufficient cause for exemp
tion. Aliss Whatelev, of the British Mis
sion Schools of Cairo, told me that a
mother considers it an insult to suggest
tliat her child’s eye needs washing. The
< rusade of the teachers to save the chil
dren’s eyes is a most difficult one, as are
many of the other self-inflicted tasks.
The American Alission and Aliss Whate-
ley’s British Alission Schools have up
wards of one thousand children under
tuition. Both are noble charities and
well entitled to the direct consideration
of those disposed to aid financially. At
II :30 p. m. the steamer was again under
way, and the night was passed at Soo-
hai.—Correspondence Philadelphia Bul
letin.
A Terrible Death.—John Willin-
hacher, ased forty years, and an em
ploye in the Brooklyn Sugar Refinery,
at the foot of South Second street, Wil
liamsburg, met a terrible death there
Saturday evening by falling into the
charcoal tank. The tank is a large
vessel, about ten feet in diameter, whose
•awning mouth is even with the floor,
rom which it is filled with the finely-
pulverized diarcoal used in the refining
process. This substance, as fine as flour
though not so dense, is kept at a constant
heat of 180 degrees, at which tempera
ture-it is admitted through a valve at its
conical bottom into the syrup, as re
quired. AVillinbacher, while replenish
ing the tank, lost his balance and fell
into it A piercing shriek notified his
companions, but liefore they could reach
him the treacherous powder hail sucked
him in and suffocated him. The body
was recovered almost immediately and
removed.—York IlecahL
A Hlxlicr-I.atv Juror Think* Ander-
•Min Should \ot In* Punl*li<*(l while
Mirrnun and Others Enjojr
the Fruit* of III* Crime.
Netc Orleans Picayune of Saturday.
The following letter is a copy of ont
in the possession of him to w'hom it is
addressed, and who on his part offers no
objection to the publication thereof;
At Home, 639 St. Charles Avenue, t
New Orleans. Alarch 5. 1878. \
To Ilis Excellency Francis T. A'ieholls,
Governor of Louisiana:
Sir—Being “a firm believer in the
Providence of God, that all our affairs
trivial as well as great, irregular as well
as in the ordinary course, are under His
alisolute, daily, hourly supervision and
control; that nothing can possibly arise
to myself or any other which is not fore
seen by Him. arranged for by Him.
brought by Him withiu the circle of His
great plan, that the little incidents of
each clay, as well as the solcmu crises of
life are His ordering;” there exists
within my breast the feeling that my
connection, in the capacity of a juror,
with the trial of the case of the Stale*
of Louisiana against Thomas C. Ander
son, lately held in this city, w as in strict
accordance with the will of Him “who
is merciful and gracious, slow to anger
and plenteous in mercy.” I cannot feel
otherwise than that the verdiet of the jury
rendered against the accused, “guilty,
and recommended by us to the mercy of
the court,” was in conformity to the
workings of His holy will. I learned af
ter the trial that it was the general lielief
the result would be a mistrial. The law
and evidence being so clear and convinc
ing, however, no other decision than the
one arrived at could have iiecn given by
any man whose* intelligence ana honest
intentions Ik* tit ted the case. Since the
close of the trial the matter, to me, has
lieen one of much thought. Public re*
ferenee has iu many quarters been made
as to pardoning the convicted prisoner.
Thomas C. Anderson, and this is the
subject that draws from me the present
communication. Feeling that l have
lieen an instrument in the hands of
Him whose judgment never errs, to aid
in the execution of His Will, 1 am now
truly impressed with the lielief that a
further duty to Him alxive requires an
effort on my part to endeavor to obtain
through you, the Governor of this State,
a pardon that will set the prisoner free.
In making this effort, I do so with the
full appreciation of my own human help
lessness, and should surely hesitate at
such an attempt did I not feel in my
heart that God Is with me, and
with Him all things arc possi
ble. Aly earthly reasons for making
this important appeal are these: I
feel that the legal proceedings again.-t
the prisoner, thus far taken, including
his sentence, have vindicated the honor
of our beloved State. That the punish
ment already inflicted is suffic ient to
cause him to fully realize the unfortu
nate position in which he is now' placed,
will serve to dissuade him from ever
again engaging in wrong doing of the
like nature that has so overwhelmed him
and the recollection of his fate by others
in the future*, who might be tempted to
do as be has done, should be to them a
warning not apt to go unheeded.
It is also evident to my mind that the
prisoner is not alone in the crime, the
commission of which lie has lieen found
guilty. His three associates, fellow*-
inembers of the late returning board of
the State, have vet to be examined as to
their guiltless Innocence of the charge
now pending against them of having
committed a like criminal offense.
During the trial of the prisoner, evi
dence was offered to completely satisfy
me that the mode of conducting matters
by the officers of the late returning lxianl,
of w’hich the prisoner was one, that Inire
upon the result of the election of 1876
for President of the United States and
for Governor of this State, was such as
to readily permit frauds to be committed
and great wrongs to be done ajraftst
people of Louisiana, and, as it is now-
shown, against the people of the whole
United States.
As evidence thereof, while you, the
rightful Governor of our State, who re
ceived by far the greater numlier of votes
of our people and are now occupying the
guliernatorial chair, it was shown during
the trial of the prisoner that you were*
returned by the said returning board as
having received a less number of votes
than the opposing candidate, vet he was
found to be fairly defeated. It is well
known to and believed by a large ma
joritv of the people of our common coun
try, that the present incumlient of the
Presidential chair would not now he oc
cupying that position had the said return
ing lioard done their duty to the voters
of our State. For this reason, therefore,
it d<ies not appear to me just that the
prisoner, w hose success in wrong doing
enabled the now President of the united
States to occupy so elevated a position,
should, while such is the case, be con
fined as a felon in the penitentiary of our
State.
Therefore, considering all the cireum
Iten OHMOted with the trial of the
prisoner, in which, as a member of the
jury, before whom he was tried, I was a
constant participant, and in view of the
anomalous position he now occupies, as
compared with those filled by many in
authority throughout our country, indi
rectly obtained through his instrumen
tality, I appeal to you to aid in endeavor
ing to secure the prisoner’s pardon.
It is my earnest d<*sire that this appeal
should be made known to the people of
our State, believing that indications will
be manifested on their part favorable
thereto. Strongly impressed with the
feeling that our Alighty King above, the
Great Ruler of heaven and earth, wills
that this appeal should be granted—that
the prisoner’s appeal to Him for pardon,
for the sakeof His only beloved Son, will
nqt be rejected—I, as an humble fol
lower of that son, beseech you, in His
name—he, the perfect representative of
all that is good, kind, merciful and just,
to use the influence and power that God
has placed in your hands in such a man
ner that Thomas C. Anderson, the con
demned prisoner, may be set fee.
Conveying to you, Governor, senti
ments of the highest respect, and with a
desire to be regarded as of your many
citizen friends, I remain, sincerely,
W. P. Converge, Jr.
The Detroiters have been attacked
with nausea and headache from drinking
animalcules. The Free Press says; “A
drop of water, containing one of the
drop oi water, containing one oi tne
lively little ‘jumpers’ was placed under
the microscope, and the fact was dis
closed that the animalcule was a ‘cyclops,’
which is a minute lobster, and which,
under the strong magnifying power of
the instrument, was 'reallv a beautiful
sight. The fan like tail, the feelers, the
legs and the scaly armor or shell, were
all as perfect as in the largest lobster of
tbe sea, but so delicate in this instance
as to be translucent, disclosing the heart
of the animal as a bright red spot, while
the viscera assumed a beautiful shade of
blue. The little creature moved aliout
so rapidlv that it was difficult to keep it
in the field, but by exercising a little
patience all were enabled to make a satis
factory examination, and no difference
of opinion existed or could exist as to Its
identity.”
The opinion of some men, we are well
aware, is not considered worth much by
the world at large, but we imagine tliat
Air. Hayes cannot decently ignore anv ut
terance’of his predecessor in the Presi-
lential chair, who. shortly after the last
Presidential election, said that “No man
worth v of the office of President would
be witling to hold it if counted in or
placed there by fraud.” Recent events
clearly establish the fact that the electo
ral vote of Louisiana was fraudulently
counted for Air. Hayes in 1876, and now
the public would like to know what Air.
Hayes is going to do about it ?—Balti
more Gazette.
It is rumored at Washington that Air.
C’onkling is preparing a speech arraigning
the heads of the administration of Prcsi-
iftnt Hujes.
SUICIDE BY CRUCIFIXION.
atrd 4on»It!«‘rabl«‘ K\<it<m<ut
lln- I I nit- Oi It* 0< t iirr«*ii«r.
Among the many sensational devices
of uuxlem days for bidding adieu to the
world and its "cares and troubles, none,
perhaps, can surp:iss in sacrilegious con
ception and deliberateness of purpose
the singular freak of a Venetian fanatic,
Alatlhew Lovat de Uassale. who dual in
1806. after crucifying himself. The fact
that “truth is stranger than fiction” is so
strongly exemplified in this instance, that
we con’den>e from an old and rare work
the main features of the case, believing
that they will not be ^without interest to
our readers:
Matthew' Lovat (surnamed Dc Uassale. )
at the time of his last attempt at cruci
fixion. in Venice, on the morning of the
19th of July, 1S05, was forty six years
of age. He was liorn of humble parentage,
and in early life had lieen destined for the
church, but circumstances altered the
wishes of his parents and himself, ami he
learned the trade of a shoemaker, at
which he worked at the time of the com
mission of his acts of pious folly. His
habits were simple and comfortable to his
station, nothing distinguishing him but
an extreme degree of devotion. He spoke
on no other subjects than those of re
ligion, and was frequently observed to be
alisorlied in mi'ditalion; but no evidence
of insanity was given until he first
attempted to crucify himself in the pub
lic streets, but was prevented by passers
by. A second attempt was made shortly
after, which, although unsuccessful, re
sulted in bis death from the injuries in
flicted. He had worked every day in
forming the instrument of his torture,
and had provided himself with the neces
sary nails, ropes, bands, crown of thorns,
etc. As he foresaw that rt would be ex
tremely difficult to fasten himself secure
ly upon the cross, he made a net of small
cords capable of supporting his weight,
in case* he should happen to disenpige
himself from it. His cruel preparations
lieing ended, the fanatic proceeded to
crown himself with thorns, of which
two or three pierced the skin of the fore
head. Next he bound a white hand
kerchief around his loins and thighs,
aud seating himself upon the cross, he
drove one of the nails, by striking its
head on the floor of tbe chiimlier in winch
his preparations were lieing made, into
the palm of his left hand, until half ot it
appeared through the back of the mem
her. He then adjusted his feet to a
bracket prepared for them, driving a long,
polished nail so far through lioth that
they were firmly fastened to the tree of
the cross. He planted the third nail
in his right hand as he had managed to
do with the left, and having bound him
self by the middle to the upright of the
cross by a coni which he had previously
placed under him, he set about inflicting
the wound in the side with a knife which
he had placed lieside him for the pur
pose. He struck himself on the left side
instead of the right, without, however,
inflicting serious injury. Whether fear
checked his hand, or whether he could
not find a place offering the least resis
tance, is not certainly known, but there
were numerous scratches indicative of
the sejireh. Having completed all his
preparations, Lovat thought it necessary
that the public should seethe consumma
tion of his attempt. He had previously
placed the lower end of the cross on the
window sill, the upper end lieing fastened
to a lieam in the apartment. By giving
a series of jerks the c ross was forced out
of the window, Lovat hanging upon it
by the left hand, the greater portion
of the weight of liis body being sup
ported by the net alluded to. While
he was endeavoring to insert the
nail placed in the right hand
into the hole prepared for it in the crass,
he was seen by some people in the street,
who ran up to the window ami quickly
draggc*d him inside and took him from
the cross. After lieing taken to a
hospital, under careful medical treat
ment his wounds liegan to heal. Always
sombre and silent, he w’ould give no
reason for his strange conduct other than
that “The pride of man musf lie morti
fied—it must expire on the cross.” When
his wounds were completely cured he
desired to leave the hospital, but the* au
thorities, desiring to place him under re
straint, would not |>ermit it, when he de
termined to starve himself, but mean
while being stricken with illness, the poor
maniac died April 2, 1806.
Politics iu Prayer.
Baltimore (iazette.
The* introduction of partisan politics
into the churches is always to lie de
plored; but more especially is the intro
duction of personal abuse in prayers de
livered in the presence of a congregation
to lie condemned. And so when Rev.
W. W. Thorpe, acting as chaplain to
the Iqwa Legislature, prayed to God that
He would “cure” Air. Hayes “of the In
sanity of the feelings which has shown
itself in undue sympathy for a section
of t^e country." etc., etc., it was felt
by God-fearing people that he had done
a grossly indecorous thing. No one would
deny to Air. Thorjie the enjoyment of
all possible hatred for the South, nor
would any one limit the private utterance
of any feelings of contempt which he
might have for Air. Hayes. But that be
should stand up in prayer, mthe presence
of God and the Iowa Legislature, and
give vent to such language, was to bring
bis holy office into discredit, if not into
ridicule. It was not strange that he
should have lieen called to account by
the Legislature; nor is it strange that a
clergyman who could commit such a
breach of decorum should return a defiant
and insolent answer, and decline to pray
for the Legislature any further. In the
letter of reply which he sends, he states
precisely what he said in the prayer; and
his own statement proves him to be
an ignorant as well as a had-tempered
man. He uses expressions that show
that his syntax is as bail as
his sft against good taste. There
should be at least one place where party
politics cannot enter, and that should lie
the pulpit. But there are some men so
arrogant minded that they think whoever
differs with them in opinion is “insane,”
and whoever dissents from them in poli
cy is immoral. They cany’ this even
into their prayers, and consign all who
do not agree with them to endless pun
ishment. There are other ministers who
love the cheap notoriety which U ob
tained by extraordinary utterances in the
pulpit; who love to startle and shock
their hearers, or to amuse them. Air. W.
W. Thorpe may not belong to any of
these classes, but he may belong to them
all. Now if Air. Thorpe iu secret wept
and prayed over the disgrace that has
come upon the country by the counting
ft by fraud a man not elected by the
people it would be well enough; but bo
has nothing to say on this point in his
prayers, aud he abuses Air. Hayes for
the best acts of bis administration.
A Clergyman Ch arged with an At
tempt to Poison His Wife.—James N.
Sickles, the brother-in-law* of the Rev
George B. Vosburgh, the pastor of the
Aladison Avenue Baptist Church, Jersey
City Heights, appeared before Police
| Justice Davis ou Friday and made an
affidavit in which be charged Air. Vos-
burgft with poisoning his wife. Air.
Vosbunrh w*as arrested and Jbrought be
fore a Magistrate. He denied tho charge,
waived an examination and gave hail in
the sum of one thousand dollars to await
the lection of the grand jury. Airs. Y'os-
burgh, who has just recovered from a
irotracted spell of sickness, during which
ler hushana is sail to have administered
a slow poison in her drink, expresses her
lielief in his entire innocence, which be
lief is shared by his entire congregation.
A WEALTHY MISER'S DEATH.
The Grovelling Life of Jerry Tulli-
•»« If MI.er.M4. « |o*e.
fsrw-“r-.
T.,ii. or V
night from sickness caused bv lark of
food, and by self-neckrt
Tullis was worth *“.000.000or ^oOO'
000 in real estate, bonds, etc most of
which he accumulated by extreme econo-
my and close but strictly honest deal-
mgs. He owned a targe amount of prop
erty in Cincinnati, Chicagcumd St Louis-
was the heaviest land owner in Butler a
wealthy county adjoining Hamilton ami
owned aliout one hundn-d thousand acres
of land in Iowa and Mi-, uri . Hf
peculiar in his habits, buying bis doth/
only at second hand and living at cheap
restaurant. He had been ill for some
time before his death, but refused to em
ploy a physician on account of expense'
He was u man of fair education and had
studied law with Mr. Carey of this city
in order to fit himself to attend to bis own
business and save attorney's fees Ho
was very eccentric and -df denying in
his habits, avoiding society, living in a
wretched, dirty room in an obscure alley
or in a log hut on one of hi* numerous
farms, dressing wretchedly, having the
appearance of a third rale' tramp Ho
was unmarried and had f, « friends or
relatives. He remarked shortly before
his death that he cared little what became
of his property except that be hoped
those who got it would enjoy spending it
as much as he had its accumulation
It doubtless troubles the Republicans
that the eternal refrain of the electoral
fraud returns with such constant and
monotonous regularity in every day’s de
bate in Congress. The fac t ls that nei
ther the Democratic party nor the people
have any idea of forgetting or forgiving
that monstrous outrage. A patriotic de
votion to peace dictated a quiet submis
sion to the wrong, but only strengthened
the resolution to remember tbe fraud
four years thereafter.—<$. Louis Repub
lican,
A Great Meteor in England.
In November, 1877, a irreat meteor w-is
observed in England, and Mr. Tupman
has only recently completed the investi
gations and calculations which he under
took relative to this extraordinurv celes
tial visitor. He received about ninety
direct and original rommunieations on
the subject, and forty or fifty newspaper
paragraphs. The bolide first |..,. a me visi
ble to observers at Newcastle on Tyne
Tynemouth, Sunderland aud York ii
eight o'clock twenty-four minutes in tiio
evening. The gentlemen who noticed it
arc remarkably in accord in their obser
vations. The appearance of the meteor
was then that of an ordinary shooting
star, and it was at the great height of
ninety-six statute miles, vertically over
a point thirteen miles north of
Derby. Descending i n the air at
tbe inclination of 39 degrees to the sur-
faceof the earth, win n at a hri-ht ot
forty-eight miles exactly over Liverpool,
it Int-ame intensely brilliant,und that was
the moment when it attracted general at
tention. People as far distant as Essex
Roscommon, Edinburgh, Bristol and
Queenstown, 200 miles from it. descril>o
it as lieing nearly as large as the
full moon, und greatly exceeding it in
brilliancy. Persons sitting in rooms
with blinds down were frightened by tho
flood.of light which suddenly found its
way in. The meteor exploded with great
violence over the Iri>h S*a, twenty miles
north-northwest of Llandudno, Wales.
The total length of its path was i$5
miles, which was traversed in about eight
seconds, or with a velocity of 17* miles
per second. The streak left in the air
extended 40 miles along the track, ami
was not less than 2.000 feet in diameter.
The noise of the explosion was heard at
great distances, and at Chester it resem
bled a tremendous peal of thunder, ik*o-
ple running out of their houses to seo
what was the matter. One c urious cir
cumstance is tliat a body capable of pro
ducing suc h a commotion should be sud
denly reduced to nothing liut dully incan
descent dust or ashes, which slowly fell %
short distance vertically downward.
In an admirable little pamphlet on
vcutilation, written by W. C. Van Bib
ber, AI. D., for the Maryland 8t*te Board
of Health, the noxious effec ts of what
ire |x>pularlv known as dose days arc?
explained very clearly. The theory is
advanced that this atmospheric phe
nomenon may account forthe production
of malaria in certain seasons and places.
Fever and ague and remittent fever are
common in the fiat lauds bordering upon
the Chesapeake Bay and in the level val
leys of fresh water rivers, as tin* Poto
mac, Patuxent and Susquehanna, and
also in similur situations almost every
where throughout the earth. In such lo
calities, during the months of July, Au
gust and SepteraftT.there arc* many days
when there is no ventilation in these topc^
graphical situations, liecausc there is but
little horizontal motion in the atmosphere
at large. The* range of the thermometer
during these months, in this climate, is
high during the day, and the water in
the marshes and swamps being perfectly
still und exposed to the ardent rays of tho
sun. is heated and gives rise to the for
mation of copious vapors. It Is then
that the motionless air, resting upon the
stagnant and vaporing waters, liccomes
impregnated with the {toison of malaria.
It is then that this poison produces ill-
health. Whatever the essential essence
of malaria may be, it Is manifest that, ou
account of its subtle nature, the at
mosphere will be more likely to lie
charged with it and to retain it when the
topography checks tho natural process
of ventilation, or the movement of bodies
of air.
Cleopatra's needle has had a strange
eventful history, even if we leave out of
account the few thousand years of its
Egyptian career. After looking down
for centuries with stony indifference on
the gradual fading of the glory of its
builders aud their descendants, it is now
removed to fresh scenes and a strange
people. It has escaped the waves of the
Bay of Biscay, to which a violent storm
caused its abandonme nt. It has lieen
rescued from the auctioneer's clutches,
whose services were demanded by tho
sailors who brought it into port. This
mysterious anil shajsjy stone, covered
with the records of the honors and
triumphs of ancient kings, and perhaps
an object of worship in its time, baa
been spared the humiliation of a valua
tion as simply old stone for building ma
terial. Sir lUibert I’hilliniore, who has
fixed its value at $1.23,000 and decided
that salvage shall lie paid on that amount,
has brightened its tarnished honor. It
can now regain equanimity after its
perilous wanderings ami settle itself
comfortably in ih» new quarters. It is
not likely that privations have perma
nently injured its constitution, and,
puMibly, English civilization will, like
the Egyptian, decay and die in ita
presence liefore it will yield to the
ravages of time.
A Bird in the Hand.—His Honor
struggled fora moment with the syllables
before he said: “Nicolai . Blatherski,
why do you insist on keeping poultry
aliout your bou*<* in violation of tho
sanitary code and to the manifest detri
ment of health in and aliout Essex
street?”
The prisoner smiled feebly and
scratched his left knee with his right shin
bone—a wav he had of digesting such
queries. At last he fixed his eyes on the
bench, and observed, with an air of con
viction, “Yah. dot Ls so.”
“In spite of your ignorance of Anglo
Saxon, ’ His Honor persisted,, ‘‘the law
must be enforced. I will inflict the
usual penalty, and do not let me see you
here again on this charge. There is no
need of your keeping geese about you.
AYhen you want them there are poul
terers enough to supplv them.
“Ah, so.* assented Nicolai, with his
index finger flattened alon^ his nose,
“but von bird in mine hand m vort two
birds in some oder place vere dey didn t
vas”—with which satisfaetaiy rendition
of the proverb he paid his fine. Aew
York Herald.
The wandering, of l lp**
and the monarrl.s of the world and all
the people five him praise. After studv^
ing monar. Ideal gove rnment Ik might
return to his native land to practice tho
same, with tlic aid of tlic lh'publican
party, his old and faithful spouse^
Though they could hardly. > ,k e d <. wife
of the ancient llvaw, invite
to that couch "where none hut ^ tad
ever lieen yet it is certain that the sad
walls of has some.imc iuilacc must long
for the sweet perfume of the rye
weed, and that the echo«
like to make a spree onc * :.,steS
neatimr a Bacchanalian refrain, instead
L’lysses leff Kgvvt. we are informed, the
crocodiles wept ft* 11 nlWorv
Capital.
Dr Marv Walker has petitioned tta
W^ncUymiUioHtta^e^
^7he7nJu;‘s who jil and hoot
at her i& the streets.