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SONG OF TBDK MYSTIC.
V correspondent in Fredericksburg,
• Is not this poetry too
;, M Vio be lost? It was written by a
t'-itlo»lif priest." We are glad of the op
portune to help in prolonging a song so
peculiarly sweet. 1
I w ilk down the valley of silence—
p,.\ : Mi•• dim voiceless valley—alone!
... j | ,r not the fall of a footstep
v i'i 1 1 mu- -save Gods and my own,
v -I,,- im~.li of my heart is as holy
U v-uj-s when angels have flown!
Lon - was I weary of voices,
\\ j, music my heart could not win;
j - a • , l was weary of noises,
’Tli u fretted my soul with their din,
L ( jj * was I weary of places
\\ : n 1 met but the human—and sin.
1 walked through the world with the worldly,
1 ""raved what the world never gave,
\nd ! - ii-i• “In the world each ideal
XI. <• -1 lines like a star on life's wave
!_ i on fin- shore of the real
And sleeps like a dream in a grave.”
^n i still did I pine for the perfect,
\:i i -till fomulthe false with the true;
I - .'._:.t ti"t t'lu* human for heaven,
j; ,r.-a light a mere glimpse of the blue.
\ . I wept when the clouds of the mortal
Vailed even that glimpse from my view.
And i t<>il'*d <'ii, heart-tired of the human,
\ii.i 1 mourned not the mazes of men;
Till I knelt l »ng ago at an altar,
\ n [ fi.-ard a voice call me; since then
1 walk down the valley of silence
That lies far beyond mortal ken.
Do veil ask what I found in the valley?
i i- miv trysting place with the Divtne;
An ! 1 fell at the feet of the Holy
a rid ainive me a voice sjtid, “Be mine.”
Tii.-n i- from the depths of my spirit
An echo. "My heart shall be thine.”
Doyou ask how I live in the valley?
I V**.*j», and l dream and I pray,
Lut no mars are as sweet as the dewdrops
the 1*0808 01 May:
And i.i \ prayer like a perfume from censers
Aseeiiuetli to God night and day.
In tie- hush of the valley of silence
l ,'n-am all fin- songs that I sing;
And the music tloats down the dim valley,
Tiit each finds a - word for a wing.
That m men. like the dove of the deluge.
Tin* message of peace they may bring.
But far on the deep there are billows
That never shall break on the beach,
An i 1 have heard songs in the silence
That never shall float into speech.
An ! I have bad dreams in the valley
Too lofty for language to reach.
And I have seen thoughts in the valley—
Ah me: how iny spirit was stirred.
And thev woiv holy vails ou their faces,
Their footsteps can scarcely be heard;
They pass through the valley like virgins,
Too pure for the touch of a word.
1).> y..u ask me the place of the valley,
Ye hearts that are harrowed by care? .
It li«-th afar between mountains.
And <;.»! and his angels are .there:
And one is the dark mount of sorrow,
And one the bright mountain of prayer.
Aci
Georgia Affairs.
|,rding to information- given to the
Constitution by a gentleman of Atlanta, an
attempt will be made at the May meeting
of the stockholders of the Georgia Railroad
to oust Judge King and Col. Johnson from
their offices, unless they resign in the mean
time. The opposition to these gentlemen
propose further to concentrate tbeir strength
upon Gen. E. P. Alexander, of Alabama,
who is now connected with some very im
portant railroad interests, and it claims to be
able to make a successful light. The cause
of the dissatisfaction is the failure of the
administration to pay a January dividend.
The * "uriitututn.says that “a hard and bit
ter tight may be put down as one of the
probabilities. We may possibly see such
stirring times in May next as we have not
had since Bob Toombs and Ben Hill had a
giant's tussle over the right of Judge King
to indt >rse the bond of the lessees.”
(>n Tuesday last as Capt. W. W. Montgom
ery, of Home, Deputy United States Marshal,
was conveying to Atlanta two United States
prisoners, one of them leaped through the
door of the car while the train was going at
full speed. Captain Montgomery, not taking
time to stop the train, immediately followed
his prist >ner’s example, and leaped out after
hint. The train was on a down grade
at the time, and could only be stopped with
difficulty. When it was stopped and backed
however, much to the surprise of every one,
who expected to find both men mangled and
dead, they found Montgomery seated on the
track with his prisoner, having chased aud
brought him to with a couple of pistol shots.
Neither party was seriously hurt. Certainly
such remarkable instances of pluck and good
luck combined are rarely ever recorded in
this world.
Last Friday night James McKee 1, foreman
of the Atlanta rolling mill, became intoxi
cated, and, entering the store of MePhee
Brothers, just opposite the mill, used very
insulting language to William MePhee. The
latter picked up a weight and knocked Mc-
Keel down with it, inflicting a blow from
which he died on Tuesday. The deceased
was a Western man, and had lived in Atlauta
seven years. He leaves a wife and three
children. MePhee, at last accounts, had
not been arrested.
Mr. John Robinson, a young lawyer of
Sandersville, lias been selected to deliver the
oration ou Memorial day in Atlauta.
The Brunswick Advertiser gives sensible
advice when it says: “Young men should
leave their pistols at home when they go to
church, and not have them sticking out of
their pockets.”
< )ne Coleman, a colored man, stabbed Mr.
Williamson, of Glynn county, seriously last
Monday. He has been arrested and is in jail.
Mr. John D’Antignac, of Augusta, has
written a letter in which he says that the
cut he received a few days since, and which
has already been noticed in this paper, was
purely accidental. He does not anticipate
any serious result from it.
Extensive preparations for a library fair,
to come oft soon at Masonic Hall, Augusta,
an* being made.
General Robert Toombs has been elected
orator for Memorial day l5y the Memorial
Association of Columbus.
The Purim ball, which took place at the
Berry House, Columbus, ou Tuesday even
ing last, is represented as having been p.
"ruud and exceedingly well managed and
enjoyable affair.
Speaking of roads, a correspondent of the
Uovington Star writes a la Thomas Hood:
“Our roads are not passable;
No, not even jaekassable;
And if you would travel them
You have to down and gravel them.”
“It is estimated,” says the Covington
Star, “from information obtained from the
funeral agents and manufacturers of fertil-
^ers. that there will be at least twenty-five
Per cent, more commercial fertilizers U6ed
1,1 Georgia this year than lias ever been
Used in one year in the State.”
McDuffie Weekly Journal: “Col. John R.
Wihon, of Mesena, was in Thomson several
days ago, aud while here showed us a dia-
Rrani of a new compound self-acting, auto
matic cider press, which is destined to work
? revolution iu cider making. The machine
ls simple and cheap and works almost
without motive nower. In fact a child can
stand by and see it operate without assist
ant*. It will.produce instantaneously either
hard or sweet eider, as may be desired. All
that is necessary is to place the apples in a
convenient trough and attend to drawing off
the eider. A mere glance at the diagram
will convince the most skeptical of the won
derful ingenuity of the invention.”
Griflin A’em: “The Savannah authorities
have succeeded in inducing thirteen tramps
to take a little regular exercise by working
0n the streets. That is uext to establishing
P tramp quarantine.” -*•
J. II. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1878.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Over two thousand dollars are now on
band for the erection of a Confederate monu
ment in Columbus. This is about one-third
of whatis needed, and the Columbus Tunes
says; “The increase iu the fund goes on
slowly, but the older it gets the faster it in
creases. The general opinion seems to be
that it is best to let the fund lie in the sav
ings hanks and accumulate interest. We
have, however, always thought that the
monument would be built much sooner if
the money now on hand was spent on it as
far as it would go. There is enough to lay
the foundation and get the work started, anti
the fact that the monument stood in an un
finished state would prompt the people to
give liberally aud frequently, so that it might
be completed.”
Says the Walton County (Social Circle)
Yidstte: “On Saturday morning last a little
(laughter of our fellow-townsman, Dr.
Daeus, accidentally caught afire by ventur
ing too near the flames and had nearly all
her clothing burned off. Fortunately her
hair was wet, else she would have been seri
ously burned about the head and face. She
was considerably burned on the back and
bips, but not seriously. Her mother was
near and smothered the flames with the bed
coverings, where the little girl had taken
refuge from the devouring element.”
Evidently to serenade one’s sweetheart iu
Gainesville is a pleasure which is heightened
by the danger one runs in its indulgence.
For instance, the North Georgian of that
place makes this announcement: “We are
requested to announce that the young man
who attempted to serenade his sweetheart
on Green street the other night with a rendi
tion of ‘Whisper You’ll be Mine Love,’
can, by calling, secure the remnant of bis
pants, as the bull-dog has no further use for
it.”
i The Athens Southern Watchman presents
its claims for the United 8tates Mint which
is spoken of as about to be located in one of
the Southern States. It says: “Now, if this
mint is to be located in Georgia (and we
think it highly proper that it should be)
would not Athens be the most eligible site
for it? Our city is just outside of the gold
fields of our own State, and easily accessible
to the gold-producing sections of all the
other Southern States. Besides, it strikes
us that the large stone building in the upper
part of the city, known as the “University
High School building,” could, at very sinail
expense, be made to answer the purpose ad
mirably. The location of this institution in
our midst would prove a great benefit to our
city, and we throw out this suggestion with
the hope that some of our public spirited
citizens will take hold of the matter and en
deavor to secure its location here.”
Buena Vista Argus: “We were pained to
learn a few days ago that Mrs. Willie Smith,
near Friendship, had become greatly de
mented and irrational. We* were told that
she had to be kept in bed and watched after
continually to prevent her self-destruction.
It is painful, indeed, to think of human
misfortunes, but that of loss of mind is truly
impressive, while it excites the deepest sym
pathy.”
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun of the 20th
gives au account of a fight in that city be
tween a colored preacher and u blacksmith,
as follows: “Yesterday afternoon upper
Oglethorpe street was made lively by an al
tercation between a colored preacher and a
blacksmith, which came near ending disas
trously to the divine. In every ‘ squabble ’
there are two sides as to the cause, result,
etc.—so there were in this one. One is that
Rev. Nelson Ashurst, colored, went to Jeff
Holbrook’s shop, and, after some words,
drew his ‘ little pistol ’ aud attempted to use
it, but this delicate little fellow snatched it
from him. The preacher then *etired after
abusing them all. The reverend gentleman
turned his steps to Browneville, where he
resides, and peace was restored. In
an hour or two Joe. a son of the
preacher, bent ou avenging his father's de
feat, came over with a shot gun, but was
also foiled, and likewise returned to the
parental roof. But for the timely interfer
ence of Shep. Rogers, he would have shed
blood. The other side is that Jeff, and two
or three more commenced beating the
preacher, whereupon he drew his ‘little
pistol.’ Ashurst is a wood workman, and
has been in the employ of Jeff., aud about
some work the difficulty originated. The
ease has been reported, and if the preacher
comes over lie will certainly be arrested.
We would add that Jeff, has always been
considered one of our best colored citizens,
and is a member of the colored Baptist
Church of Col urn bus. ’ ’
Florida Affairs.
An oratorio and sacred concert was an
nounced to be given in St. Augustine on the
20th instant, for the benefit of the Episcopal
Church in that city. Several line singers
from the North, as well as the best of home
talent, were expected to participate.
We notice the announcement of the death
of Judge George S. Hawkins,which occurred
at his residence at Marianna on Thursday
night last. He was a prominent citizen of
the State, and his age was some seventy
years. A native of New York, he removed
to Florida fifty years ago and has since re
sided in Apalachicola aud other portions of
the State. He was Captain of a company
during the Seminole war and received a
wound which lamed him for life. From the
effects of this, for the past eight years, he
was unable to walk. General Loring, of
Confederate and Egyptian fame, was his
Orderly Sergeant in the campaign. For a
number of years he was Judge of the Circuit
Court of Florida, and for two or three
terms represented her in the United States
Congress and tilled this position at the time
the State seceded. At the time of his death
he was engaged in codifying the laws of
Florida, and had accomplished much of the
task.
Governor Drew has issued a warrant for
the execution of Samuel Godwin, who was
committed at the last session of the Su
wannee County Court for the murder of
Mathew Boseman iu Lafayette county in
May lost. The execution is ordered for Fri
day, the 29th instant, at Live Oak, within
the walls of the jail or within the jail yard.
If the Florida flea would only remain in
one position he would not be such a trouble
some insect, but his highly wrought ner
vous temperament,which induces him always
to be getting up and sitting down, is what
renders him obnoxious to society at large.
Iaite rains have so swelled the water
courses about Tampa that there is consid
erable trouble in crossing them.
The contract for carrying the mails be
tween Cedar Key and Havana, in connection
with the fast service from New York, has, it
Is stated, been given to Clyde A* Roberts.
There will be three steamers employed, one
of which is now being completed at Ches
ter, Pa. The service will commence Ap ril
first.
St Patrick’s day was sensibly but heartily
observed at Pensacola. We learn from the
Echo that “the day passed of quietly and
notwithstanding our cosmopolitan popula
tion there was no disturbance of any kind.
St. Patrick’s day, 1878, will be held iu affec
tionate remembrance by the admirers of
Ireland’s great patron in this, the Queen
City of the Gulf, and their names are legion.”
Mr. George Wild, a performer at the Bay
View Varieties, Pensacola, was drowned
while bathing at that place on the 17tli inst.
A small party, composed of members of the
variety profession, had gone on a pleasure
trip to Santa Rosa Island, and while there
bathed in the surf. Mr. Wild, more adven
turous than the others, swam about one
hundred yards from shore when he was
seen to throw up his hands and in a morneut
sank. His friends did everything in their
power to aid him and to recover his body,
but without avail.
Scuppernong grape culture is receiving
increased attention from the citizens of Levy
count}*, Florida.
In order that both parties may be secure,
many Florida farmers are hiring laborers
under written contract, thus avoiding loss.
It is generally admitted that those who are
willing to contract in writing for advances
to enable them to farm, are encouraged
to make good crops, and willing and able
at the end of the year to pay their indebted
ness.
The session of the Florida Presbytery,
held at Fort Read, Orange county, on the
7th instant, adopted some important meas
ures. The most important business accom
plished was the approval of the revised book
of Church Order and Discipline. The de
liverance of the General Assembly of May
last denouncing dancing, was also approved.
Reports of a very encouraging nature
were received from most of the Presbyte
rian Churches in the State. Arrangements
were made to supply some of the churches
that have been vacent with preaching.
St. Augustine is now^tilled with visitors—
ever}* train bringing additions. Last week
upward of three hundred arrived on one
train. The hotels lire all doing a good bust
ness.
A severe wind and rain storm visited
Sumter county Wednesday, the 13th inst.
Bunko men have lately been operating
Jacksonville, but according to the Sun and
Pr?*s their last effort resulted in a disastrous
failure. That paper of the 20th thus writes:
“Early yesterday morning the bunko
rascals commenced operations by tackling
an elderly gentlemau, stopping at the
Nichollb, on the corner of Bay and Hogan
streets*. The bunko man mistook liim for
an acquaintance, and begged his pardon.
The gentleman went down Bay to John
Clark’s store, bunko No. 2 waiting in the
post office door for his reappearance. A re
porter, watching the proceedings, inter
viewed the elderly gentleman, who seemed
unwilling to carry out the programme
which tne reporter informed him would
soon be proposed, and therefore when
No. 2, ‘a nephew of Mr. Wycoff,’
finally accosted him on the corner of Bay
and Pine, the elderly gentleman turned a
deaf car and wouldn’t wait until the inte
resting lottery ticket scheme was broached.
That was the end. The gamblers displayed
considerable irritation, gathered in knots in
front of the Turf Exchange Saloon, on the
piazzas of the Elmwood aud Mrs. Buffing
ton’s boarding house, intermingling fearful
ly wicked words with the consolation they
were endeavoring to administer to one an
other. It is questionable if they open
again—rent bills must be paid in advance,
and the treasury is in no condition to war
rant further outlays in that direction.”
The Palatka Herald always manifests very
great interest in graphically portraying
the delights and advantages of its section of
the State. It says in a recent issue: “A
short trip to Orange Mills this week or the
south limits of that charming settlement,
impressed us with the beauty and growing
interests of the settlement. Our time being
limited, we did not get beyond Dr. Cowgill’s
residence. The doctor has seven hundred
young orange trees just beginning to bear
fruit. The grove is in most excellent con
dition, and the land seems admirably adap
ted to the growth of the orange.' A tine
dwelling, a beautiful water front, and every
thing indicating taste and enterprise makes
the site of this gentleman, about whom so
much has been said, a happy, charming
retreat, aud he evidently means to enjoy it.
Time, which softens all asperities and oblit
erates much of the political prejudice of the
day, will doubtless give way to a more en
larged charity and a spirit less inclined to
think evil. ’ We had the pleasure, while
awaiting the return of the little steamer, of
stopping at the house of Mr. J. James. This
gentleman has a beautiful location, indicat
ing taste aud cultivation, which will in a few
years be a fruitful orange grove. The sun
was getting low as we sighted the approach
of Commodore Root’s party on the Fairie,
when we were kindly greeted and had a de
lightful run to the wharf at Palatka.”
Says the Florida Union: “On last Monday
night four rooms of the Carleton House
were entered and several hundred dollars
worth of money and jewelry taken. Among
those robbed was lion. l). L. Yulee, of
Fernandina, who lost liftv dollars in cash, a
check on Drexel & Co., New York, for over
seven hundred dollars, and a United States
Treasury draft on Assistant Treasurer of
New York for one hundred and thirty-five
dollars. On Tuesday night the St. James
was entered and three rooms rilled of their
valuable contents to the amount of about
one thousand dollars. It is believed by one
of the ladies who was robbed of her rings
that chloroform was administered to her, as
she was quite certain she had the rings on
her lingers when she retired. Five parties
were arrested as being suspected of robbing
the Carleton, but three were discharged on
Wednesday, as no evidence of their com
plicity could be obtained.”
The Sunland Tribune, of Tampa, is
very severe on the anti - railroad
croakers of its town. It says: “We
hear of certain parties saying every
now and then, ‘O, if you build a railroad
from Tampa, you will ruiu the business of
the place. Little interior towns will spring
up along and near the line and take away
all your trade.’ Y’e gods! where is the fool-
killer? Why has not Jacksonville become a
jungle on the banks of the St. John’s be
cause of Lake City, Live Oak. Madison,
Monticello, Tallahassee and Quincy? Let
these Dogberrvs write themselves” asses.
Ah! well, gents, we know whose livery you
wear.”
Tampa Tribune: “ With proper drainage,
much of our low lands or flat woods could
be brought into cultivation, and the rich soil
fitted to bear any kind of crops. Some of
the mdst fertile fields in existence were for
merly marshes or overflowed lands. Our
State should encourage this profitable work .
of improvement. Large tracts of this kind
of land could be reclaimed with no great
expenditure which are now considered
worthless.”
The Florida Dispatch thus recommends the
News: “It will be gratifying to the farmers
and gardeners and to the shippers of fruits
and early vegetables to learn that that enter
prising paper, the Savannah Morning News,
has made arrangements by which it will here
after receive and publish a weekly telegram
from each of the leading commercial cities
of the North. East, and West, New York,
Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago,
St. Louis and Louisville, giving the quota
tions of ruling prices of such commodities.
The dispatches will appear in the Daily
News ou Thursdays and the Weekly News
on Saturdays. All farmers and dealers in
terested in such matters will make money by
sending for the Weekly or Daily News.”
We learn from the Lake City Reporter the
particulars of a narrow escape experienced
by two young ladies at Cedar Key lately, as
follows: “Miss Stewart, of this city, ami
Miss Haddock, of Jacksonville, were out
horseback riding on Saturday evening last,
and on returning to the city concluded to
try the speed of their chargers, when Miss
S.’s horse ‘flew the track,’ and, making a
short ami sudden turn at the corner of a
fence, the fair equestrian, by some means,
quit the flying steed and took a reclining po
sition in close proximity to the fence, receiv
ing a bad cut on her head. Her companion,
Miss H.. seeing her sudden change of po
sition, quick as thought leaped from her
horse, while under full speed, to render
timely assistance, and was slightly lamed by
the jump. Fortunately, neither young lady
was seriously injure!. We learn Miss S.
has gone to Quincy to be present at a wed
ding, having recovered from her bruises.”
The following from the Lake City Ro
]x>eter sounds well: “Although it is early in
the year, the evidences of earnest improve
ment are visible, and we predict that this
will be the most prosperous year the farmers
have enjoyed for a long time. It is the
determination of the people to export more
than is imported, and to produce those
erops for which there is the greatest
demand. There is more machineiy in use
hi this county than ever before. Several
rice mills are being fitted up. More lumber
is being sawed, more land being plowed,
and the^people are more hopeful than for
years past.”
The St. Augustine Press says: “ St. Au
gustine has been visited during the week by
the so-called bunko men, or rather confidence
men, who have in several eases relieved
some of our Northern visitors of their pock
et books. Notwithstanding the Mayor has
given public warning of the appearance
among us of these gentry, still people with
all the Yankee acuteness of character which
they are supposed to possess seem to be the
first to get the confidence of these sharpers.
What we need among us is an association, to
be made up from anioug our young men, to
give especial attention to the ‘ bummers’ on
their arrival in the Ancient City, and by*
‘ short, quick and decisive' measures to let
these gentry know that the quicker they
leave the town the better for them, as well
as for our community. Such an organization
will do more to rid us of these pests than
any other course that could be adopted.”
LETTER FROM OUR TRAVELING
CORRESPONDENT.
Hayes Pictured by a* Friendly* Pen.
—In the White House sits a man of me
diocre ability and attainments, one whom
I believe to be thoroughly honest and
sincere in his purposes, possessing much
sound sense and judgment, with not a
little appreciation of tlie popular necessi
ties of the time, but weak and wavering
in action, hesitating and unreliable in
pursuing even his avowed ends. Con
fessedly the compromise candidate of his
party, he owes his position not to the
vote of his countrymen, but to a for
tuitous and unprecedented series of
events, to a second compromise of abso
lute justice with public necessity. Re
cognizing this fact, appreciating the
shadow which darkens his title. Presi
dent Hayes was bound by every dictate
of honor, by every motive of expediency,
to administer his'office primarily for the
benefit of the whole people, without
special regard to party interest. Such
seems to have been his desire and such
the governing principle of his course,
and yet how widely he has failed to come
up to the just expectations of his most
sincere well-wishers, even to the standard
of his own expressed purposes, is only too
apparent.— Young Sam Bowles in the
Springjidd {Mas*) Republican.
Galnenvllle— Its Progress and Its At
tractions—The Banner County-
Educational — Newspapers — Per
sonal — Vegetables — Archer, Arre-
donda, Bronson and Levy Counties
Gainesville, March 16.—Editor Morn
ing News: This is the most enterprising
town along the line of the Transit Rail
road, about one hundred miles south of
Fernandina, and it is one of the most at
tractive points to winter tourists. Here
he finds a dryer atmosphere than he finds
along the Sl John’s, so that it is be
coming quite a resort for invalids.
The hotels at this place have shared
the trade with their more pretentious
neighbors in Jacksonville. In fact, the
Arlington House is first-class in all of its
appointments. The table is superb, and
the attention is all that any one could
ask, both in the office and the dining
room. There have been during the past
two weeks something like an average of
seventy-five guests in this hotel alone.
There are several other smaller houses of
various merits.
The progress during the past five years
is wonderful in the number of houses
built. I am very much taken with the
style of architecture of many of the
buildings. Some of them are really
tasty, as well as substantial, in their
appearance. They give evidence of
permanency, and look as • if the men
who are building, have come to stay.
Business seems to have settled down into
a more permanent shape, and the mer
chants are not striving to make it all in
one season and then leave the country.
Most of those with whom I con
versed are try ing to build up their busi
ness upon a firmer basis, and have c:ist
their lots with this good people and in
tend to remain. The town is laid off
handsomely, and in a few years the shade
trees will furnish most pleasant walks
beneath their overhanging boughs.
Gainesville is comparatively anew town,
yet she has some twenty-five hundred or
three thousand inhabitants. Some of
them have ample means to improve
their premises, and are doing so with
histe and good judgment Most of
them are enterprising, and consequently
they have a live town. I know of no in
land town in Florida that I would prefer
to that of Gainesville. Society,
judge, is good, from the limited know!
edge 1 have of it, and the number of
school houses and churches I see in the
place.
The Academy here is under charge of
two Georgians, Professors E. P. Cater and
W. N. Sheats, both competent and expe
rienced teachers. They have a daily at
tendance of over two hundred pupils.
They are assisted by a competent corps of
instructors.
There are two newspapers published
here, one by the Hampton Bros., the
Times, and the other by 0. A. Myers, the
Florida News. Both are represented
as doing well. The Hamptons are
young men of promise, and no doubt
will do their adopted section much good
in battling for the right. The editor of
the News, O. A. Myers, Esq., is perhaps
one of the best posted men in Florida
politics in the State, and certainly is
capable of making a good paper any
where.
Among many other friends I have met
here is Yates Thompson, Esq., formerly
of Savannah, and a member of the firm
of Thompson & Falk, grocery merchants.
They are doing a thriving business, and
Yates has made many friends since he
came to this city. I also, met with an
other gentleman well known in Savan
nah—Major Henry Elliott. He is doing
a large insurance business. I am under
many obligations for attentions to Col.
A. S. Acec, the local agent of the Savan
nah News.
Gainesville is the county site of Alachua
county, and is surrounded by some of
the best farming lands iu the State. It
is the distributing depot for mails and
freights to Newuansville on one side and
for Micanopy, Ocala and other points
farther south. The funnels in Alachua
took the premium at the last State Fair,
and they wear their honors well. This
is the best county of laud along this line
of road, the larger portion of it being
devoted to vegetable or truck gardening.
The farmers ship immense quantities of
early vegetables to Northern markets.
They have been shipping large quantities
of peas during the last two weeks.
Archer is twelve miles below Gaines
ville. but in the same county, and is a fine
farming region. Along the line of railroad
the farms are small, not exceeding ten to
twenty acres in cultivation, but devoted
to vegetables, which are now seeking a
market in the larger cities North. I was
there a few days ago when thirty-five
crates of peas were forwarded to one
house in New York, and the business
men there say that they will ship about
forty thousand crates of vegetables this
year. This is independent of their melon
crop, which is quite a source of revenue
itself. The new settlers at this point arc
nearly all Western men, and are excel
lent farmers. Archer is but a small place,
but has recently put on citv airs by the
election of town officers. They are mak
ing an effort to build a new Methodist
Church at this point. I was the guest of
Uncle Joe MacDonell, who is not un
known in Savannah, and who has as big
a heart as anybody.
Arredonda is just six miles below
Gainesville, and is of quite recent date.
Still I see quite a number of nice new
cottages surrounding the station. This,
too, is in Alachua county, and is a point
from which is shipped large quantities of
vegetables. Some say more are shipped
from this point than' any other iu the
county. It is certainly a beautiful sec
tion of country, and very desirable for a
place of residence. Emigrants continue
to arrive in all parts of the county, and
the population is now greater than in any
county outside of Duval, in which the
city of Jacksonville is located. This
county merits examination by such as de
sire to find new homes in the State. In
almost every available point the
leading men have organized agri
cultural clubs and societies, and they
are working in good earnest to make
their approaching district fair a grand
success. This comes off on the 30th of
April, and will no doubt he a credit to
the State.
Bronson is the county site of Levy
county, and lias some very* comfortable
looking dwellings and a neat and sub
stantial court house. Some of the stores
do a very large business, and, as it is the
only town of any size in the county on
the mainland, a considerable traffic is
carried on from the interior. Cedar
Keys is not approachable in any other
way but by boat or railroad, so that
Bronson attracts the trade from the entire
county outside. The people here are also
striving to build a Methodist Church,
and the young people from Bronson
had been down to the Keys giving con
certs in behalf of this fund, and brought
away something over a hundred dollars.
The Florida State Journal is the only
paper published in the county. ft
is published at Cedar Keys, and
edited by Dr. R. H. McHvane, who is
not only a good hotel keeper, but a good
editor, druggist and doctor. Success to
him.
My trip aiong the line of road has been
made exceedingly pleasant by the courte
sies of both the officers and employes of
the Transit Railroad Company.” Of
them I may have more to say in a subse
quent letter. Jack Plane.
OUR ATLANTA LETTER.
Weather— Quiet Time*—The Hang-
iua of fins. Johnoon Jlinor Top
ic*—Capt. IV. A. Shaiv and Him
New Steamer—SL PatriclrN Day la
Atlaata—Picture of Geu. W. II. T.
Walker—SeriouN Fire ia Norcro**
Building—Narrow Escape of New*
Office.
Special Correspondence of the Horning News.
Atlanta, Ga., March 20.—Y our cor
respondent came very’ near not having a
chance to give your readers a letter to
day, owing to a serious fire, the particu
lars of which are given below.
We are having fine weather, and every
thing seems to be moving along quietly.
A few cutting scrapes, an occasional
murder, a small fire and plenty of street
auctions keep off anything like mo
notony*.
The hanging of Gus. Johnson has
created a flood of yellow covered, blood
and thunder literature in this section, one-
half of which is sensational. He was,
no doubt, a hardened murderer, but he
was likewise a great “blower of his own
horn’’ and •. lover of the sensational. '
MINOR TOPICS.
Your Volusia, Florida, correspondent
speaks of Captain Shaw, of the steamer
George M. Bird. In him I recognize
Captain W. A. Shaw (brother of Mr.
James C. Shaw, the efficient General
Passenger Agent of the Central Railroad),
formerly of the steamer Lollie Boy, whose
generous hospitality I frequently shared
during my trips up the St. John’s river.
The steamer Bird was then being con
structed, and I am glad to know that my
excellent friend (and popular command
er) treads the deck of such a fine craft.
May he meet the success he so richly
merits.
The celebration in Atlanta of “ St.
Patrick’s Day” did not occur, as usual,
“in the morning." The day passed
quietly away, aud about eight o'clock at
night the rolling .drums and the bugle
blast announced the gathering of true
Irish hearts at DeGives Opera House,
which was densely packed, hundreds
being unable to get in. The military
made a fine display, and the address of
President J. F. Burke is pronounced “au
Irish gem of the first water. ” The ap
pearance of the Cleburne Guards, who
bore the sword of General Pat. Cleburne
to the stage, was greeted with tremen
dous applause, for
“ His sword of might
"Was a beam of light.
Though it led to an exile's grave.”
A PICTURE OF (JEN. WALKER.
The relatives and friends in Savannah
of the lamented Geu. William Henry
Talbot Walker (father of Mrs. Dr.
Schley and Mrs. Col. C. W. Anderson),
will be glad to know Col. J. H. Seals, of
the Sunny South of this city, is now
having a fine picture of this gallant Con
federate soldier engraved in Philadelphia
for his paper.
The picture will be accompanied by a
full and deeply interesting biographical
sketch of Geu. Walker, made up from
material kindly furnished by Generals
Johnston, Wheeler and Chilton, Col.
Ross, Major Cuinming, and other dis
tiuguished soldiers. The sketch will
probably appear iu the “Memorial Day
issue of the Sunny South, aud will most
fittingly* embalm the virtues and the
heroism of
“Georgia’s noble son.
Her love flower of chivalry.”
NORCROSS BUILDING ON FIRE.
Your correspondent, who occupies a
sleeping apartment adjoining the rooms
used as the Atlanta office of the Morning
News in “Norcross Building,” was
aroused about five o’clock this morning
by* the cry of fire, and the smashing in
of doors and windows directly* under his
own window.
Looking out he discovered that the fire
was in the book store of Messrs. Burke
& Hancock, on the first floor, from which
dense volumes of smoke were already
pouring. Too sick to be turned out of
doors, except at the hist moment, he qui
etly resigned himself to fate, which, for
once, decided in his favor, and saved both
him and his goods from the fiery ele
meats.
The extensive drug establishment of
Messrs. Pemberton, Samuels A Reynolds,
which occupies the corner, has a pack
ing room in the rear of Messrs. Burke &
Hancock, separated only by a light wood
en partition, latticed at the top to let in
the light. The fire originated in this
packing room, and after awhile worked
its way into the second story*. The
promptness and vigilance of the fire de
partment, however, confined the flames
to the rear portion of the building.
The large and valuable stock of Messrs.
Burke A Hancock and Messrs. Pember
ton, Samuels A Reynolds were considera
bly damaged by lire, but suffered heavy
loss from being flooded by water. The
insurance will probably cover the losses,
which range from $15,000 to $20,000.
The lmlf-basement floor on Whitehall,
which is occupied by Moses Bentley as a
barber shop, was flooded with water and
ilso damaged by tire. The upper floors
were damaged by cutting into the floors
und partitions to get at the fire, and by
the fire itself.
In addition to the law offices in the
building, the families of Colonel J. II.
Seals, Professor W. B. Seals, of the
Sunny South, and Mr. Prince occupy*
rooms there, the building having been
used until last year as a part of the Na
tional Hotel. The escape of the block
from entire destruction was owing to the
zeal and efficiency of the firemen and a
plenty of water with which to operate.
Although an old structure, it is one of
the best known in the city, occupying a
central position on the corner of Marietta
and Whitehall streets, aud its destruction
would be a great loss to the community.
It is owned by* the Hon. Jonathan Nor
cross, who purchased the lot when At
lanta was Marthasville.
Chatham.
ANDERSON TO BE LIBERATED.
The Decision 4>f the Snpreme Conrt
Orders His Discharge.
The Opinion ol the Lower Court
Avoided and Reversed—The Verdict
of the Jury Set A*ide and the Pri*-
oner Ordered to beDiwcharged—Full
Text of the Deeinion.
The uppertendom of Washington is
profoundly agitated with the fact that up
to this time the entire diplomatic corps,
male and female, has been omitted in all
invitations to dine at the White House.
Such a neglect is very fmusual, if not
unprecedented. The cause is believed to
be the trouble about having wine on the
Presidential table, the average diplomat
regarding wine as essential to the art of
dining, and the Executive being sternly
opposed to supplying any such pleasant
temptation to the unwary*. The subject
is a very perplexing one, and how it is to
be adjudicated no one seems to know.-r-
Nashville American.
Tree Felling by* Machinery.
An English paper has an interesting
account of the recent trial of a new
machine for cutting down trees, at which
Mr. Gladstone, who has attained fame as
an amateur chopper, was present. The
machine consists of a steam cylinder
pivoted on a cast iron bed plate, and
laving a long stroke, which puts a saw
in motion. The steam is supplied from
a portable boiler through a flexible tube,
and is chiefly admitted into the cylinder
at the piston end, only a little” steam
passing in behind the piston to serve as
a cushion. The effect of this arrange
ment is that the saw cuts iu the return
stroke and not in the thrust, the
teeth being all curved accordingly. The
apparatus, which can be carried by
four men, is laid on the ground near
the tree, to which it is fixed by two jaws
and by a chain placed round the tree just
below”the saw-cut. and drawn taut by
a screw. From this it will be seen that
the machine cuts close to the ground,
thus economising the timber. The first
tree felled was an elm, two feet nine
inches across th£ cut, which came down
in less than four minutes. When the
work goes on uninterruptedly the task is
accomplished with great rapidity. In a
private trial, five trees were” felled,
inclusive of the time occupied in
moving and adjusting the appa
ratus, in thirty five minutes. In the
heart of one of these trots, by; the way,
was found an entire brick. The saw*
was not made to cut bricks, but as it was
driven by steam it had no time to debate
the point, and so went right through the
impediment, with the loss of a tooth. As
the saw cuts well into the tree, wedges
are driven in, as is usual iu felling. The
pressure of steam required for the felling
of such trees as were operated upon is
about fifty pounds from a three or four-
horse power. It was the general opinion
ol the gentlemen present at tfce trial that
the machine was perfectly successful and
that where there was much wood to fell
it would be of great service, particularly
in American, Indian and colonial forests,
which it was designed to dear.
The following is the text of the decision
rendered on Monday by Chief Justice Man
niDg in the Supreme Court:
No. 7972. The State of Louisiana vs. Tbos.
C. Anderson, appellant. Appeal from the
Superior Criminal Court, parish of Orleans.
The defendant having been convicted of
the crime hereinafter set forth, was sen
tenced to two years’ confinement in the
penitentiary, from which he has appealed.
The offense charged in the information is
that he did falsely* and feloniously utter and
publish as true a certain altered, false,
forged and counterfeited public record, to-
wit; The returns from the parish of Vernon
of au election held for Presidential electors,
in the State of Louisiana, on the seventh day
of November, 1876, as shown by the original
returns of said election made by* the Super
visors of Election for the parish of Vernon,
knowing the same to be false, altered,
forged and counterfeited, with intent to in
jure aud defraud, etc.
The case came up upon numerous bills of
exceptions and assignments of errors. We
shall confine our examination to such of them
only as are necessary to the decision of the
issue presented to us.
The prosecution was commenced by* an in
formation filed by* the District Attorney for
the parish of Orleans, and it is objected ou
behalf of the prisoner that the filing of an
information is not allowable, because—first,
there has never been a preliminary examina
tion of any specific charge agaiust him, and
that he did not waive such examination, and
has not had au opportunity of meeting the
witnesses against hint and ol cross-examining
them; seeoniL there has not been any finding
by an examining officer that the offense
charged has been committed, nor any adju
dication by such officer that the prisoner was
guilty thereof; third, the information filed is
a flagrant violation of section 1010 Revised
Statutes of 1870.
The section merely provides how prelimi
nary examinations before committing Magis
trates shall be conducted, and is much the
same as the statute of other States upon
that subject.
The objections are not well founded. It
has never been supposed that a preliminary
examination by a committing Magistrate
was an indispensable precursor to a prose
cution, either by indictment or information.
[After sustaining its decision overruling
the points made by the defense and citing
English and American authorities, the Chief
Justice proceeds to set forth the technical
defects in the indictment upou which the
decision of the court below is reversed.]
We have said thus much upon those points
of the defense which affect particularv the
constitution of the tribunal, and the kind of
proceeding by and through which the trial
was had, to the end that the rightfulness of
the one and the legality of the other may be
vindicated. We now turn to the investiga
tion of some of the alleged defects which
the prisoner claims vitiate the prosecution,
and here it is necessary to state succinctly
the requirements of the statutes touching
elections, in order to understand the nature
of the objections.
The commissioners arc appointed for each
poll, whose duty is to count the vote imme
diately upon its close; to make duplicate
lists of them, with very minute specifications
of certain details, and deliver one of them
to the fiupcrvimjr of registration of the
parish and the other to the clerk of the Dis
trict Court. The supervisor of registration
within twenty-four hours thereafter, must
consolidate such returns to be certified as
correct by the clerk of the District Court,
and he must forward the consolidated re
turns, with the originals received by him, to
the returning officers. These officers, known
in common parlance as the returning board,
must meet in New Orleans within ten days
after the closing of the election, and can
vass and compile the statement of votes
made by the commissioners of election. The
presiding officer (of this board) shall open
in the presence of its members the state
ments of the commissioners of election, and
they shall from said statements canvass aud
compile the returns of the election in dupli
cate, deposit one in the office of the Secre
tary of State, and make public* proclamation
of the other bv printing in the official
journal. Acts 1873, page 15. The act was
approved November 20, 1872.
The offense charged in the information is
uttering and publishing as true a certain
altered public record, to wit: The returns
from the parish of Vernon, as shown by the
original returns of said election made by the
supervisor of election.
When the State offered in evidence the
alleged public* record, the defendant ob
jected on the ground that it did not conform
to the description contained in the informa
tion; or, in other words, that it was not the
record for the uttering and publishing of
which, altered and forged, he was criminally
charged. Thereupon the State moved to
amend by striking out the words “original
returns,” and inserting “consolidated state
ment of votes, parish of Vernon,” in lieu
thereof, and by striking out the words “su
pervisor of election,” and inserting in their
stead “supervisor of registration.”
The amendment was permitted and the
trial proceeded on the information as
amended, and a bill was reserved. We do
not propose to consider the right to amend,
because the situation of the accused, though
changed, was improved by the substitution
and his chances of escape increased. The
document was again offered iu evidence un
der the amendment and received.
Whenever forgery* of an instrument or the
uttering of a forged instrument is charged,
and the instrument has a legal definition
und.meauing—that is to say, has certain
characteristics or qualities imparted to it by
law—it is not needful to set it forth in the
information with rniuute precision, because
the general or legal term by which it is
known sufficiently designates the kind of in
strument meant. Thus a bond or a will is
an instrument known to the law, and the law
dictates what shall be known and held to be
a bond or a will. But when a statute pro
rides for an instrument, not known to the
law hitherto, or in other words, creates it
and impresses upon it certain features pecu
liar to itself, forgery cannot be committed
by making a false statutory one in a form
not provided by the statute, even though it
be so like the genuine one as to deceive
most persons, and the uttering of such false
and altered instrument would not be pun
ishable. 2 Bishop Criminal Law, sec. 506.
Under our statute It Is oply necessary to
set out the purport of any instrument, dr to
designate it by name, if it is usually known
by one, in an indictment for forging, utter-
ering, etc. (Rev. Stats., 1870, section
1049.) But in order to be forgery the instru
ment thus set out aud charged to be felo-
uiously made, must be of such character
that, if genuine, it would be evidence of
the fact it recites. The instrument must be
such that when forged, it does or may tend
to prejudice the rights of another, or, as
put by Bishop, it must either appear on its
face to be one, which, if true, would be
legally capable of effecting a fraud : (Secs.
503,511; State vs. Smith, 8 Yerg. 150 Bar-
num vs. State, 15 Ohio 717; State vs. Snow,
not yet reported.)
The instrument charged iu the amended
information as having been falsely uttered
is the “consolidated statement of votes,
parish Vemon, made by the supervisor of
registration.” The statute nowhere gives
to this consolidated statement any* efficacy or
value as evidence of the result of the elec
tion, nor does it anywhere direct or permit
it to be used as a means of ascertaining such
result. The returning officers are not required
to use it. The instruments or documents
they are required to canvass are the original
returns of the commissioners, and from
them and them alone they must com
pile the vote. This “consolidated state
ment” of the “supervisor of registra
tion” is of so little account that its pre
servation among the archives of either
parish or State is not commanded. The
clerk of court is not furnished with a (jgpli-
caie, as he is of the ccn^mhs.sionuiV returns.
There is no officer who is authorized by law
to give a certified copy of it for use as evi
dence, or for any other use. The clerk is
directed to certify it as correct, and this ap-
>ears to have been required so that it may
>e known to conform to the duplicate list of
commissioners’ returns in his office: and
after it is so, certified the supervisor trans
mits to the returning officers along with the
original returns sent him by the commis
sioners, and from the latter alone thev com
pile the vote.
If who supervisors of registration of every
parish in the State should alter and forge
every* consolidated statement of votes made
by each one respectively, and transmit them
thus altered and forged to the returning of
ficers, and these officers should canvass and
compile the votes as the statute requires,
not from these consolidated statements, but
from the unaltered commissioners’ returns,
no injury would be suffered by any individual
or by the body politic. The supervisors’ con
solidated statement is not made by the stat
ute the basis of the final canvass and com
pilation of the vote, as the original re
turns of the commissioners are, and hence
the alteration and forgery of all of
them, the returns of the commissioners re
maining unaltered would not change the re
sult of the election in any parish. To con
stitute forgery, the forged instrument must j
be one which, if genuine, may injure au-1
other, and this must appear, either from the
description of the instrument, or by the
averment of matter aliunde. Where, from
aught that appears in the information, the
instrument was a nudum pactum, or of no
effect, forgery cannot be predicated upon it.
People vs. Tomlinson, 35 Cal., 503. And the
same principle, of course, applies to the
uttering of a forged instrument.
It is unnecessary for us to say whether the
consolidated returns of the supervisor of
registration, without the clerk’s certificate,
is or is uot a public record, susceptible of
forgery. It is sufficient to remark that the
paper offered in evidence is not the instru
ment, the utterance of which as forged is
charged upon the defendant.
After conviction a motion in arrest of
judgment was made, because it was-not
charged in the information, either in its
original form or as amended, that the utter
ing or publishing the alleged altered and
forged instrument was done by the defen
dant in any official capacity, either as one of
the returning officers or in any capacit
other than as au individual, and that sue
offense could only have been committed in
an official capacity to operate an injury to
or fraud upou any person or body politic.
It is evident that the uttering and publish
ing by a private person, or by* a person in
any public capacity other than that of re
turning officer of elections, could not have
injured or defrauded anyone. Suppose that
four Presidents of as many banks in this
city had uttered and published as true, al
tered and forged consolidated statements of
votes of any parish at an election, as made
by the supervisor of registration, and had
caused the same to be printed iu the official
journal under their signatures as Presidents
of the banks, would they have been in
dictable therefor under the Statute? And
why not ? Simply because they had
no ‘ legal mission or authority to do
that act, and as no legal effect
would be produced by it, no one would be
injured or defrauded by it. Every one is
presum ;d to know the law, and therefore to
know that the persons, thus altering and
publish,ng, were without authority to do
that pailicular act, and that it was void and
of no effect when done. Hence it is the
essence of this crime that it should have
been committed by a public officer, whose
function it was to prepare and publish the
true canvass and compilation of votes, and
the averment that he uttered and published
the false canvass and compilation in his
official capacity, and under color of his
office, is essential in an information to sup
port a conviction, aud justify a judgment
thereon. The information has not such
averment.
The charge of the Judge below*, which is
admirable in its judicial tone and temper,
though, as we have seen, erroneous ou the
questions of law* we have reviewed, pro
ceeds throughout on the idea or assumption
that the act charged in the information as
criminal was done in the defendant's official
capacity. Even the instructions asked by
the defendant’s counsel are based on that
idea. It was nowhere so charged.
It is not needful to say more for the deci
sion of this cause, nor were we inclined to
advert to any of its features, other than
those directly presented by the record, but
we are driven from this reticent attitude
by having spread before us in the printed
argument of some of the defendant’s coun
sel an open letter, dated “Washington, Fel*-
ruary 4, 1878,” addressed to the prisoner,
and * signed by Johft Sherman, Stanley
Matthews and others, in which the public,
and the people from which the jurors are
to be drawn for his trial, is informed that
he is falsely accused and maliciously per
secuted.
A few years ago—it was within the present
decade—a member of the British Parliament
undertook to influence the course of a public
prosecution, then pending in an English
court, against a fraudulent claimant of the
honors and estates of an ancient house. The
criminal trial there, as here, had been pre
ceded by a civil proceeding, and Kith were*
of unexampled duration, so that the ques
tion, who was the rightful heir of the Tieh-
borae family ? had extended beyond the legal
circle, and had invaded social and political
life.
When the unwarrantable publication had
been made by the member of Parliament
under his own signature, in which be had
endeavored to bring opprobrium upon the
court and its officers by charging that the
claimant was falsely accused and malicious
ly persecuted, Lord Chief Justice Cock-
burn promptly repressed his impertinent
though not interested zeal by inflicting
upou him a fine of £250, and sentenced him,
in default of payment, to imprisonment iii
the county jail.
He went to jail, and there remaiued until
a relation released him by paying his tine.
On the reassembling of Parliament at its
next session, the Judge formally communi
cated his action to the House of Commons,
that it might be officially known he hud not
wantonly invaded its 'privilege, and that
body, ever watchful over the inviolability
of those privileges, silently approved the
Judge’s vindication of the sanctity of his
court.
Public opinion, in this instance and in this
country, can alone exercise that punitive
power, the employment of which is equally
well merited on both occasions.
It is ordered, adjudged and decreed, that
the judgment and sentence of the lower
court is voided aud reversed, that the ver
dict of the jury is set aside, and that the
prisoner be discharged from custody.
A SUPPRESSED BIOGRAPHY
Air. Frotliiimliam’ft “Life of Gerrit
Smith”- Why it* Publication wan
Stopped —The Author's Explana
tion,
New York Times.
During the latter part of last Decem
ber Rev. Octavius Brooks Prothingham’s
“Life of Gerrit Smith” was published by
Messrs. George P. Putnam’s Sons, and
ou Friday* last that firm announced that
the biography had been withdrawn from
publication. The reason of the sup
pression of the work, which was hailed
as a noteworthy and valuable addition to
American biography*, is the refusal of the
family of Gerrit Smith to accept as his
tory the story given by Mr. Frothingham
of the great Abolitionist’s connection
with John Brown. Mr. Frothingham
explained the matter last night to
a Times reporter. The stereotype
plates of the biography, accord
ing to Mr. Frothingham, belong to
Mrs. Miller, a daughter of Gerrit Smith,
who lives in Geneva. By the terms of
the agreement between Mrs. Miller and
the Messrs. Putnam, 4thor party had the
l ight to withdraw* within thirty days. If
the owner of the work wished to stop its
publication she could do so by acquaint
ing the publishers with her desire; and
the publishers could send back the
stereotype plates whenever they chose
within the period of time specified. Mr.
Frothingham said he passed a great deal
of time in collecting materials for the
biography ; he lived for a time a* the
old homestead in Peterboro’ and worked
slowly. Either Mrs. Miller or John
Cochrane, Mr. Smithuephew, could
have read the manuscript if either had
desired to do so. As for the facts,
Mr. Frothingham says they are un
impeachable. Gerrit Smith was inti
mately acquainted, he insists,, with
John Brown’s general plan. Of
the particulars in the Harper’s Ferry
matter nobody but Brown himself
knew until all was over. Mr. Frothing
ham finds no difficulty in explaining
Smith’s denial of his connection with
Brown. After the capture of the old
warrior, most of his associates fled to
Canada. Gerrit Smith was at Peterboro,
too ill to leave his home. He had been
suffering from a nervous disorder, and
soon afterward he went to a private asy
lum near Utica, wln*re he passed a monti*.
When he left the asylum tL,c umntry was
still agitated about the John Brown* raid.
Mr. Smith denied specifically any knowl
edge of the Harper’s Ferry*” matter, and
his denial was literally* true. But that
was merely incidental, and Mr Jxmiih
had thorough knowledgeqX Bmjwu’s plans
in general. This is Mr. Frothingham*s
explanation. Mr. F. B. SanbonYs Life
of John Brown contains statements
which support Mr. Frothingham. Only
the first edition of the Life of Gerrit
Smith had been published, comprising
one thousand copies. These have nearly
all been sold, so that the boo|^ will be
come rare within a few months after it
was first given into the printer’s hands,
Mr. Frothingham does n**t know whether
or not Mis. MiUe* and Mr. Cochrane in
tend to buy up the copies of the work
extant. It is probable that the public
libraries are furnished with copies,
which will be jealously guarded. Mrs.
Miller did not demand the suppression
of the volume until the second week in
February.
HAYES, THE* NON ELECT.
Suii«et Cox’* Klnsrius; Reply to Hew-
Itt’tt Extraordinary Speech.
Congressional Record. March 13.
But, Mr. Chairman, I would not for an
hour or a moment have left my duty* in the
chair- but for the conclusion of n.y
colleague’s (Mr. Hewitt’s) two hours’
speech of yesterday. I could not misin
terpret its drift. It was intended to
“quiet title.” Lawyers know* what that
means. Bills for that purpose are some
times equitable but always timid. Often
times they are the baleful fruit of unrest.
My colleague, with all his diplomatic,
political, mechanical, metaphysical, fiscal,
prophetic, moral, or religious genius,
cannot quiet one particular title. lie
cannot read that one title clear to tic
White nouse, or any other mansio*
[Laughter.] Being in great part re
sponsible for the electoral commission,
he would naturally desire to have its re
suits certified as good. They were bad,
especially from the time of the Florida
count, and no washing will wring out t!."’
damned spot. With its stain the multi
tudinous seas will continue to be in
carnadined till the present Executive
retires for a better man. *
Supposing—which is a violence—that
the technical pow*ers of the electoral law
were observed; yet there is a higher 1 ‘stat
ute of frauds” which will never obliterai
or whiten the damned spot. No special
pleadings, no refinements of social sci
ence, no snaps of parliamentary* Practice,
no tortuous conduct during the count or
since, no whining lor content, no timidity
of wealth, no odor of sanctity over the
deed can ever eradicate the damned spot.
It will not out.
It was said that if there was fraud, tbv
counted non-elect President was not
privy or guilty. But the answer return*.
“Why is the receiver to lie cleared, and
the forger who helped him to the pro
perty go unpunished ?” When my col
league points to the scandalous breaches
of faith which have marked the acces
sion and conduct of this Electoral Com
mission President, why does he not stig
matize this fact, to-wit—that to-dav Yi
non-elccted man holds the highest office
in America by the crime of convicted
forgers ? And why, why, why does the
convicted, by the receiver’s consent, re
tain one of the most important Federal
offices in Louisiana ? If the non-elect,
by such means and by thus approving, is
not a fraud, or a party to H, why do we
still hold relations through our customs
service, with the incriminated and con
victed ?
Well and truly did my colleague sho w
the breaches of faith and trust which
this quasi-President has committed as tw
civil service. He said well and truly
that the non-elect had dishonored hfs
platform troth and his inaugural promt c
by the nomination of personal and in
competent men to diplomate position.
But, “most lame and impotent conclu
sion 1” my colleague thinks the incumbent
who sit* upon a petrification of sytemati.
chicanery is not himself culpable. The
temple and the steps to it may be nr.
abomination; but the high priest—oh, 1
is immaculate!
Mr. Chairman, tlie present Executiv.
was somewhat informally denounced by
me the other day as a fraud. There
were many reasons of a personal nature
why 1 should have been the le t t<» have
made the remark which excited the ire of
one gallant member. I had known this
President in younger, happier, and better
days. I had been prompt here to recog
nize his situation a friend would visit
one in trouble whom he once respected.
I had in an elaborate Fourth of July
speech made a part of my theme the
necessities of recognizing the de facto,
even when morally we were bound to
affix the “badge of fraud.” Some duties
here are paramount. We often practice
before a bad court. Our clientage de
mand it; but even in so small a matte;
as writing a missive for apolitical enemy
—I found that a political apostate, under
Presidential guidance, for personal spite
—I mean the P'xstzuaster General, was
prompt to attempt to injure me with
party’ friends for recognizing this d.
facto relation; und so prompt that he
printed a letter of mine and that of Air.
Sayler, of Ohio* in favor of this Republi
can gentleman; so as to draw from il
Some sense of recognition of the official
who was acting us President.
I am aware that nobody cares for these
personal matters, but sometimes they
serve io Illustrate social and political
ethics, and in this case they do more.
They* point this moral; that when on<*
takes an office to which he was not elect -
ed, and takes it through crooked patho
and under absolute proofs of guilt, it is
best not to trust anything he does. When
my colleague (Air. Hewitt), therefore,
makes out the present locum tens ns of tin
White House as coming in with the rad-
ant beauty of innocency and rich in tin.
opulence of civil service refined, and yet
believes that he lias since dishonored even*
pledge of his to civil service reform, is il
not meet to ask, “ How can we gather
any good fruit from such scraggy shrub
bery ?” •
Once Gen. Gpin» aald that no man
worthy the office of President should .be
willing to hold it if counted in or
placed there by any fraud. Better than
that ; the Democrats, who never flinched
in the last Congress, told their constitu
ents before they parted last year that—
“Under the forms of law*. Rutherford
II Hayes has been declared President of
the United States. His title rests
upon disfranchisement of lawful voters,
the false certificates of the returning
officers acting corruptly, and the deer
sion of a commission which has refused
to hear evidence of alleged fraud. For
the first time are the American people
confronted with the fact of a fraudu
lently elected President. Let it not be
understood tliat the fraud -w ill be silently
acquiesced In by the country'- Let no
hour pass in which the usurpation 1
forgotten.”
After signing that paper am I to si 1
still here and listen to apologies for such
t title resting upon tho disfranchisement
of lawful voters > Am I to acquiesce in
a power based on false certifications?
Am I to endorse corruption m retumin::
officers? Shall I bow and bow obsequi
ously before a commission w-hioh refused
to hear the evidence of alleged fraud?
We said that it would and should not be
acquiesced in by* the country*. Shall we
keep our promise ? We said that no
hour should pass in which the usurps
tion should be forgotten. Others may-
let the hours dance gayly in the goldeu
light of patronage; and ethers may be
‘^bonded” to listen to the strains of the
silver veto, out my constituents may* can
cel my commission if I forget the” troth
we made to each other when we signed
“the Congressional address” aqd pledged
ourselves that never should there be rest
for this wicketino»*. Never! Never!
?ri) Goods.
B. f. MEinrcC
157 Brouf-hton street.
WE HAVE TOST RECEIVED THE FOLLOW-
WHICH WE OFFER AT OCR USUAL
LOW PRICES.
100
A choice lot of Plain an.l strim.l mint™
SILKS, from Sic. a,» tOLORED
A lot of Elejrant Emhn.klnrttl WHITE moim
SUITS far Children a,,,i ^ i " PI Vt’E
A full line of White
NAINSOOK.
Children and Miasea.
• Very Fine FREXCH
A full line of White Sd FREXCH ORGANDIES.
A full line of Flue SCOTCH, thin NAINSOOKS,
Full lines of WHITE SWISS MCI LS VTi-rn
RiAand bishop s lawns. vi to '
80 p taaTle ihish
It low pri^ - WarranU - 1 «" Lmen.
A splendid assortment. f LINEN TAR I pvap
KINS and DOYLIES. *AHLE NAP
ham ask
HONEY -
An elegant line of Ladies- soani*
Blonde LACE XEckscAUES.’ S[Vlnab and
A " vti .L-xi'"''' EMBROIDERED
SILK LACK NECKTIES, new designs.
20 ml.Tf'i'w “ve "l-ti EMBROIDERED
" 1IITE EACF. NECKTIES, from 25c. up.
50 dozen NEW CORSETS, including the popu-
lvL.ol:" lpar ''' auU -odeEd
Corsets.
Ladies extra
HOSIERY
l . lon K BROWN bai.briggan
CMdrenV. very fine an,I handsome
FANCY BALBRIGGAN HOSIERY
spring colors.
100 Smh'hau-$k sl,pertoe BR0WN
A splendid assortment of HAMBURG FW-
BROlDEWra, in canduie and
Muslins, handsome designs and extra fine
Agents for R. J. ROBERT'S PARABOLA
NEEDLES an.l RAZOR-STEEI/ bSssomJ
mhis-tf *
“the best in the world.
WISHES TO CALL ATTENTION TO HIS
HAVING RECEIVED A VERY
CHOICE LINE OF
'iiig & Summer Silks
ALSO, AN ELEGANT LOT OF
BLACK BROS GRAIN SILK,
All of which will be offered at the
Very Closest Prices!
450 PIECES EMBROIDERED
0
&
" gs
Ranging in price from S cents a yard to $‘I 50
a yard.
SPECIAL BARGAINS
LADIES’ UNDERCLOTHING
NYTHICII has been largely replenished, and
n now includes many NEW DESIGNS. An
inspection of these frotnls cannot fail to con
vince the purchaser that in p»int of finish and
quality of material as well ah
Lowness of Price!
they surpass any that has been offered in this
City at corresponding prices.
100 dozen TWO-BUTTON KID GLOVES, in
Spring colors, at 50 cents a pair; actual
value $1 00 a pair.
500 dozen LADIES', GENTS’ ami MISSES’
HOSE, to close, reduced fully 25 per cent.
A JOB LOT CONSISTING OF ABOUT SIXTY
PIECES
Black Silk Warp Henrietta Cloth,
LUPIN'S BLACK FRENCH CASHMERES AND
TAMISE CLOTHS,
TO BE CLOSED AT A
Great Reduction
FROM FORMER PRICES.
50 BLACK THREAD EMBROIDERED DOL-
MANS, at less than half of last year’s prices.
DANIEL HOGAN.
“I’ll drink to thee," Ulysses cried.
As he saileff the Golden Gate. ;
“No paltry draught cJ common wine,
But a Lumber of whisky straight. "
Then bumpers he took, the story runs,
Till they numbered almost a score;
When a dreamful sleep o’er the hero came,
And he drank to the Gate no more.
The convict labor question is provok
ing discussion in New Jersey. It is pro
posed in the Legislature of iW State to
prohibit the making of hats and shoes in
the SU»te prison, because the manufacture
of these articles is a business which five
thousand or six thousand honest persons
are dependent on for the support of their
families, and it is ucjua to bring cheap
convict labo; in competition with them.
It »s admitted, however, that the prisoners
must be kept employed, and if possible
made to earn their own living; and it is
proposed that they shall be put al work
in pursuits in w!> ; h other States are
more largely engaged than New Jersey.
B’At suppose all the other States should
adopt this plan also; would not the
imagined advantages of it be annulled,
and the convicts of every State be
brought in competition with honest labor
of all others?—St. Louis Republican.
, X PIECES BLACK TAMISE CLOTH. W
1 •) inches wide, at 75c. awl $1. worth -*%c.
more.
BLACK FLORENTINE BINGALINE. CAMEL
HAIR GRENADINE. BLACK ALPAf A, and a
full line of BLACK GOODS generally ami ex
ceptional value.
50 pieces BLACK and COLORED HUNTING,
in all the different shades, ns low as J»c.
30 pieces NEW BOCRETTE SUITING.
100 clOii-n Gents’ LINE* HANDKERCHIEFS,
hemstitched, 3-4 size, at w-. 3 ’
worth double,
!« dozen Ladies' HEMSTITCHED rtwo-inch
hem), at $2, 52 50 and £L
150 dozen M LINEN HEMMED HANDKER
CHIEFS, at 5c., 8c., Wand I2c.
10 pieces 104 LINEN SHEETING, a life drive.
20 pieces PILLOW CASE UNp*;
,* ~-i. : width from W to ■*>
ent prices,
inches.
ranging
dozen DAMASK LINEN NAPKINS, at 75c.
tojiau.
The above goods having Seen purehas.-.i du
ring the large Ijnen Auction
ris, we snail offer them at much below .am .
4-1 heavy,
, worth Ute.
Mrs. Hayes told a reporter in Ohio a
few days ago tliat she finds Washington
a delightful place of residence. “The
White House,’* she said, “is such an ele
gant home ; the rooms are so large and so
splendid that I am perfectly in love w*ith
it. Just now, .too, the conservatory is
filled with such a profusion of magnifi
cent flowers! I brought some cut flowers
with me for the especial benefit of my
friends.”
21 welbs FAMILY LINEN,
Richardson, Sous & Otrden. at 1 K -
The biggest drive in TOWELS ever offered.
100 dozen PLAIN HUL'K, at
100 dozen DAMASK TOWELS, at l2**e
200 dozen EXTRA LARGE HUCK, the t**st
25c. towel in the world.
ail dozen VERY LARGE HUCK TOWELS, at
$2 50, good value for $3 5°.
3,000 yards “ BRAOANEA" SlJmNQH-
equal to Linen, 40 inches . * ’
15c., worth 25c. We purchased the io .
50 dozen Gents' UNLAUNDRIEL SinRTH^at
50c., 75c. and $1. Every Shirt warranteu a per
feet fit.
dozen Ladies^ L'NLALN^JflL?
SKIRTS, at .50c., SL 31 A * 15U ’ v v
33, with fine embroidery.
The largest and most complete hoe of SUN
SHADES and PARASOLS ever offered by
10,000 yards HAMBURG EDGINGS, fine goo*
Beautiful designs hiJAWNET^R^^®
NAINSOOKS and LINEN. trashy, cheap
goods among them.
100 WHITE and COLORED
SHAWLS, at about fifty cents on the uonar
what It cost to make them.
35 pieces SPRING CASSMERE fur Mefi an
Boys.
NAVY BLUE 6-1 and « SITTINGS.
NEW GOODS BY EVERY STEAMER.
GRAY & 0’BEIEU.
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