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Savannah. Ga.
A
(lieonria Affairs.
,• tight of the planters against the ad-
• in price of fertilizers is waxing hotter
mtter.
Newnau Judge marched a couple of
lo marry a couple, and after perform-
jy, r ceremony in a most impretsive and
dignified manner, was rewarded by the
Mushing groom with a fee of five cents.
The Forsyth Advertiser says the silk in
dustry is beginning to receive attention in
this country, the silk trade amounting to
fifty million dollars. The silk worm thrives
in Monroe. Last year several fine speci
mens of silk thread were made In that
count
During the year 1878, 192 vessels, 76 from
foreign and 116 from coastwise ports,
entered the port of Brunswick. The total
tonnage was 61,810, and the aggregate
number of men employed by them was
1 013. There were 198 clearances, 74 for
foreign and 124 for domestic ports. The
total value of exports was £1,373,841.
The Griffin Ncics learns through private
information that on Monday afternoon the
city Marshal of Forsyth and another man
afte
veil) had a pistol fight, in which,
blazing away at each other three or
four times apiece, the}’ succeeded in slightly
wounding a couple of by-standers. After
this, the A*" • *leams that the redoubtable
Marshal got hold of a double barrelled shot
puj, a nd paraded the streets, swearing he
would be Marshal of that town at all haz
ards. The difficulty grew out of a charge
that he was ineligible to the position, and
had no right to run for it.
l’imonti, the Italian who some time since
made a murderous assault upon a com
patriot in Augusta, has been sentenced to
ten years in the penitentiary. When he
heard his fate his actions were, according
to the Eve/tiny Xirs, very much like those of
u wild man. He tore his clothes, and made
a furious onslaught on his attendants, lie
will probably, before he serves his term, be
considerably tamed down. He swears he will
kill himself, and it is feared he will attempt
• to
inothe
Crawford, colored, the inhuman
who a few days ago abandoned her
young infant in a sewer, has been arrested
and placed in jail to await trial.
Jt is stated that everything is going on at
the North Georgia Agricultural College, at
Dahlonega, as though no tire had occurred.
The church, old academy, and court house,
have been brought into requisition, and all
the classes are well accommodated.
< >n Tuesday last Mr. John H. Hodges,
editor and proprietor of the Irwinton South-
eut r and Appeal, was married to Miss Kate
V. Norwood, of Houston county.
The Marietta Journal says: “About fif-
en hundred people, men, women and chil
dren, white and black, came to town last
Friday to see George Brown hung, but the
Governor’s action ou Thursday, commuting
Brown's scutence to imprisonment for life,
denied t<> the assembled multitude the hor
rible sight of witnessing the choking a man
to deatii with a rope. Brown says Thurs
day was the happiest day of his life.”
Milledgeville Hoarder : “On Friday
afternoon last, Mr. Otho Ellison, son of Mr.
William Ellison, of this city, shot himself,
In the town of Jeffersonville, Twiggs coun
ty, wfth a pistol. The ball entered his
mouth, passing entirely through the neck.
No cause can be*assigned for the act. It
vras very deliberate, and the young man
says he meant to kill himself. The unfor
tunate man was brought to this city, and
has had the best attention, medical and
otherwise, llis condition is very precari
ous, but there arc hopes for his recovery, if
hemorrhage does not supervene.”
Thomasville Southern Enterprise: “Some
of the papers in the State seem to be some
what surprised at the cordial good follow-
ship existing between ourself and friend
Triplett, of the Times. The truth is we
caunot help it. Triplett is such a clever
fellow that you cannot force him into a
quarrel aim you know the old adage ‘it
takes two make a quarrel.’ So we are
obliged to be friends, because we never
could strike a man that will not strike
back.”
The Baxley Gazette gives its readers its
ideas on the proper course of conduct to be
pursued toward ye gentle tramp. It says :
"There is but one course of treatment for
them. Whenever they call at a house for
food or shelter, refuse it to them, unless
they are willing to do a reasonable amount
of work to pay for their entertainment. We
kpow that every Southern man feels it to be
his duty to give food and shelter to the
wayfarer, but our people should not forget
that people who refuse to work, as these
tramps do, must beg or steal, and the report
from all parts of the United States shows
that they are (many of them at least) *the
most desperate criminals. Therefore we
earnestly advise the people of Georgia to
refuse them either food or shelter unless
they do work enough to pay for it.”
Macon ledger : “A few days ago Mr. Row-
ley Hutchins, of Jones county, hired two
negro men to work upon his farm, and to
commence, provided them with new blank
ets, shirts, shoes, etc., but the first night
they decamped with their goods, and the
villains had to be pursued. Mr. Hutchins’
two little boys, William and Wesley, set
out. and overtaking the colored “gemmen”
at Cochran, made them take off the shoes
and shirt , and left them to rejoice without
these articles of clothing. It w r as very
plucky in these small boys to overaw'e their
portly game.”
Here is what the Boston Ihst has to say
regarding Georgia: “Georgia is work
ing out her own salvation more rapidly
than some people suppose, or than is, per-
haps, agreeable to the stalwart politicians
in general, aud the professional outrage
shriekers in particular. Five years ago, ac
cording to the records, there were 186,244
children in that State who could not read or
write. The educational system employed
has worked so well as to reduce this num
ber to 85,650, or considerably more than fifty
p*; cent. If it does as well in the next five
years, the rising generation of Georgia will
be able to satisfy the educational conditions
required for an exercise of the right of suf
frage, even though they may be as rigid as
the State of Massachusetts.”
Mr. L. I*. Thomas, Chief of Police in At
lanta. writes this way concerning “the great
l n dian Doctor”: “Dr. Nash, who is travel
ing over the country just now, was sent to
the chain gang of Fulton county for va
grancy in 1877, and after serving a few
months, made his escape; but he was so
worthless that all rejoiced that he had left.
He was a regular customer at police head
quarters for years, and it would take too
much time to attempt to give the number
of times brought before our court. The
station house was his home.”
^ Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
“Just before last Christmas a young man
■named Stephens, a clerk at Wadley, on the
Central Railroad, was murdered at night
and found the next morning with his throat
out. From a merchant at Barlow we learn
that a young man named Wm. Hurst, living
in Scriven county, while under the influence
of whisky, said to an aunt of his: ‘A
fellow knocked Stephens down and I cut
Lis throat.’ A gentleman in an adjoining
room heard the remark ami commuuicatea
the fact to parties at Wadley. Hurst was
immediately arrested and on Monday was
carried to Wadley aud a preliminary inves
tigation commenced. It was to have been
concluded yesterday. Hurst’s aunt and the
gentleman who heard the remark are wit
nesses to the statement. Strong hope is en
tertained that sufficient evidence will be ob
tained to convict all the guilty parties, who
ever they may be.”
Cuthbert Appeal: “A gentleman from the
country on Tuesday dropped upon the
■quare a roil of greenbacks of near one
hundred dollars, and failed to discover his
loss for fully half an hour, when he started
in search of the lost treasure. Imagine his
J. II. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1879.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
surprise when he found his money upon
the sidewalk where it had fallen from his
pocket, and had probably been walked over
a hundred times/’
FROM CEDAR KEYS.
The Health of Florida — Lumber
Bu*liie*a—Cnpid’B Frank*-General
New* Item*.
Cedar Keys, Fla., January 19.—Editor
Morning News: I read with interest letters
published in your valuable paper from
different sections of Florida, and it is a
source of great pleaure to know that 1 live
in a State where health, beauty and flowers
predominate. I cannot speak too much in
praise of the health of Florida. Twelve
years or more ago, when I first moved here,
I was quite debilitated, and now I am very
much improved in health and strength. I
have been over a good part of the State, and
must give to Cedar Keys the praise for
health.
Capt. George VV. Moody has taken charge
of the Pine Mills here, and expects to have
them run without delay. For some time
back logs were delayed in getting to the
mill, but now, with Mr. Frank Mcll-
vaine (who is one of the best raftsmen)
and the assistance of the 6teamer D. L.
Yulee, both mills will be more regularly
supplied with logs, so that the running of
the mills will not be stopped for want of logs.
Capt. Moody Is a good, just man, determined
to do what is strictly honest and right. Mr.
J. G. lleagy still runs the mills for the Cap
tain, and with his (Mr. Ileagy’6) determined
and untiring energy, it is expected the mills
will run more regular. We have at this
time three vessels in port, two schooners
and a brig. Two are loading with lumber,
the other with red cedar, for New York.
Cupid is still lurking around. Madame
Rumor says we will soon have more wed
dings.
“Here's a health to the married—I wish them
success.
Likewise the single, I wish them happiness. "
Atsena Otie has a Mutual Improvement
Society, composed of the ladies and gentle
men of both islands, which has been in
operation for over a year. They have
given several public entertainments, but of
late they have gotten careless, or grown
cold, as the outsiders do not hear anything
from them. It is to be hoped that they will
soon treat us to one of these enjoyable en
tertainments of which they are so capable.
. We are having delightful weather. The
cold snap is passed and we are now enjoying
the best of weather. Just at this time the
wind is blowing quite fresh from the west.
Open as we are to the Gulf, we must expect
such occasional gales.
Our orange trees are all right. The cold
spell did not hurt them.
The dredge is still upon the beach of
Atsena Otie, waiting for a large tide to get
off. It is expected shortly to begin oper
rations.
Gen. Slaughter has been quite sick, but is
up and about, looking rather badly from his
last attack of sickness, lie is, however, all
right, and will soon be himself again. More
anon. Very truly yours, Percy. ■
THE BOOK OF MORMON.
A Wonderful Hoax aud How it Ori*
ginaled.
“The Hook of Mormon,or Mormon
Bible, which Joseph Smith, the founder
of Mormonism, claimed to have received
direct from an angel of the Lord, was,
as he said, a record written upon gold
plates nearly eight inches long by seven
wide, a little thinner than ordinary
tin, and bound together by three
rings running through the whole.
As this record was engraved in a
language known as the reformed
Egyptian, it was not translated to the
iliiterate Joseph, and so two transparent
stones, anciently called the Urim and
Thurium, set in silver bows after the
manner of spectacles, were handed
down at the same time. These made the
golden plates intelligible, and sitting be
hind a blanket liung across his room to
keep the sacred records from profane eyes,
Joseph Smith read off the “Book of
Mormon,” or Golden Bible, while a dis
ciple, Oliver Cowdery, wrote it down.
It was printed in 1830, in a volume of
several hundred pages, and the signa
tures of Cowdery and two others ap
pended as testimony of its genuineness.
Later, Smith and the three witnesses
quarreled: the latter renounced Mormon
ism and avowed the falsity of their testi
mony. Another intimate of Smith’s tes
tified that the Mormon founder had
acknowledged to him that the records
and books were all a hoax. The Smiths
were known among their neighbors in
Palmyra and Wayne counties, N. Y.,
where Joseph grew to manhood, as per
sons who avoided honest pursuits, and en
gaged chieily in digging hidden treas
ures, stealing sheep and robbing their
neighbors’ hen roosts, and were account
ed false, immoral and fraudulent charac
ters, of which Joseph was said to be the
worst. Nevertheless, Mormonism grew
and flourished, though it -was proven that
the real author of the Mormon book was
Solomon Spalding, a quondam preacher
and erratic literary genius who lived in
Conneant, O., in 1809, and wrote a ro
mantic account of the peopling of Ameri
ca, tracing the American Indians to the
lost tribes of Israel. He entitled his work
“Manuscript Found.” and further in
creased its interest by a fictitious account
of its discovery in a cav» in Ohio. He
, , *-* i_ - printing of-
placed the manuscript in a printing of
fice at Pittsburg with which Sidney Hig
don, an accomplice o£ Smith’s, was con
nected. Higdon copied it, often men
tioning the fact himself; and when the
“Book of Mormon” made its appearance,
a comparison of the two revealed their
almost exact likeness, with the excep
tion of the pious expressions added to
t he latter. The Mormon Bible traces the
origin of the American Indian to Lehi, a
Jew, who lived in Jerusalem 600 B. C.
In obedience to divine instruction, he
found in America anew Jerusalem, and,
dying soon after his arrival, the dissen
sions among his sous resulted in the su
premacy of the younger, Nephi, aud the
others, for their rebelliousness, were
condemned to have dark skins and “be
come an idle people, full of mischief
and subtlety, seeking in the wilderness
for beasts of prey.” Nephi became the
father of a race of primitive kings, who
kept their records upon golden plates,
and finally one of their descendants,
Morman by name, gave his name to the
religion which Joseph Smith left his
sheep-stealing and treasure-digging to
preach to the world.
The Retiring “Carpet-Bag’" Senators.
Philadelphia Star.
The four “carpet-baggers” who retire
on March 4, namely: Spencer, of Ala
bama, Patterson, of South Carolina,
Dorsey, of Arkansas, and Conover, of
Florida, appear to take matters easy.
Their exit leaves only one “carpet-bag
ger” in the Senate—Kellogg, of Louisi
ana. lie, with Bruce, the colored Sena
tor from Mississippi, will be the only
two Republicans left of the thirty-two
Senators from, the Southern States.
Bruce will go out in 1881, and unless
there is a shaking up which will secure
to the colored citizen the same rights ac
corded to his white fellow-citizen, he
will be the last of his race that will be
a member of the Senate in our day.
Patterson talks of settling in Northern
Texas with his two sons, now young
men. Snencer owns one-third of a gold
Spencer owns one-third of a go,
mine in the Black Hills, and is to man
age the mine on his retirement from the
Senate. Conover ran for the House at
the last election, says he was elected but
counted out, and is going to contest.
Dorsey owns a ranche in New Mexico,
stocked with 40,000 head of cattle, hut
will retain his residence in Arkansas
Dorsey, Conover aud Spencer are all
under forty, and their wives are singu
larly beautiful women.
Dying of Hydrophobia.—At Kenton,
Ohio, a girl aged twelve years, the
daughter of Charles Kidney, is suffering
terribly from hydrophobia, caused by a
bite of a dog received six years ago. Her
friends have to keep her tied down.
An Alleghany (Pa.) firm are making
two thousand railroad wheelbarrows to
fill an order from South America, and
another linn has an order for six thou
sand picks and shovels, same destina
tion,
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOUN TELEGRAMS.
THE RUSSO-TUBKISH TREATY.
W. T. SHERMAN COMING SOUTH.
Suspension of a Sew York Stock
Broker.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
.viinor Telegram*.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Washington, January 22.—In the Senate,
Mr. Garland, from the Committee on Public
Lands, submitted a minority report on the
claim of McGarrahan, together with a bill
placing all claimants to the rancho Ponoche
Grande, in California, in the Court of
Claims, with the right of appeal to the
Supreme Court of the United States. Laid
on the table, and ordered that the bill and
report be printed.
Mr. Morrill, of Yermont, called up the
House bill reported from the Committee on
Finance yesterday, to facilitate the refund
ing of the national debt. Passed unani
mously. It now goes to Mr. Hayes for his
signature.
Mr. Davis, of Illinois, introduced a bill to
prevent and punish counterfeiting within
the United States, of notes, bonds, and
other securities of foreign governments.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
The naval appropriation bill was re
newed. Mr. Blaine supported the amend
ments he yesterday gave notice he would
submit. Mr. Beck' followed, claiming that
Mr. Blaine’s amendments could not be con
sidered, as they proposed new legislation.
Mr. Edmunds also considered them out of
order, and, in view of objections, they were
not submitted.
The naval bill was then passed.
Mr. Blaine then introduced a bill to regu
late promotions in the navy. Referred to
the Committee on Naval Affairs. (The pro
visions thereof are the same as the amend
ments discussed to-day.)
Mr. Edmunds moved to take up his reso
lution in regard to the constitutional amend
ments.
Mr. Thurman moved to adjourn, which
motion was agreed to.
The House has passed the bill appropri
ating a thousand dollars for the transporta
tion of coin and bullion, and forty thousand
dollars to meet the miscellaneous expenses
of the House of Representatives.
There was a strong debate on the South
ern claim bill, of Maggie Barron aud others,
for supplies furnished the Union army dur
ing the war. Mr. Bragg (Dem.) stated
that if the South was solid for the Demo
cratic party simply for the purpose of get
ting money out of the Treasury, it would be
well for the Northern Democracy if the
Southern Democrats went over to the lie-
publican party, and he hoped they would do
so. He stigmatized the Southern Claims
Commission as a court which had bred
fraud and perjury throughout the laud.
He thought very little loyalty exiated South
during the w’ar.
Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana, agreed that the
percentage of loyal persons in the South,
as the gentleman understood it, was very
small, but a Southern man, who was born
there, reared there, and who had been iden
tified with that people, could only have been
loyal when he entered the Confederate army
and did his full duty as a soldier. They had
been the only loyal people in the South.
They had been loyal to their country, their
God, aud to the noblest, highest
and manliest emotion ever breathed
by the human soul. Several Republican
members desired to ask questions, but Mr.
Ellis refused to yield, aud Mr. Atkins, of
Tennessee, declared that it was a family
fight.
Mr. Chalmers, of Mississippi, understand
ing a portion of Mr. Bragg’s remarks as re
ferring to him, wished to reply, but was
obliged to postpone his iutention.
The House then passed resolutions in
honor of the memory of the late Represen
tative Douglass, of Virginia.
SHERMAN COMING SOCTH.
Washington, January 22.—General Sher
man will shortly leave here to examine cer
tain abandoned military posts and other
neglected property of the United States in
Florida and at Atlanta, with a view of as
certaining what means should be taken to
reclaim aud preserve the same and secure
the interests of the General Government
therein.
appropriation bills.
Washington, January 22.—The House
Committee on Appropriations have conclud
ed action on the post office and legislative,
judicial and executive appropriation bills,
which will be forthwith perfected in form
for reporting to the House.
STOCK BROKER SUSPENDED.
New York, January 22.—The suspension
of J. W. Weston, stock broker, No. 17 New
street, was announced in the Stock Ex
change this morning. He was an extensive
dealer in privileges, and a sharp advance in
prices made it impossible for him to meet
his contracts.
russo-turkish treaty.
Constantinople, Jauuary 22.—Prince
Lobanoit, Russian Ambassador, aud Cara-
theodori Pasha, Turkish Minister of For
eign Affairs, had an interview yesterday.
The definitive treaty has not yet been signed.
MOVEMENTS* OF A RUSSIAN STEAMER.
Calcutta, January 22.—Intelligence has
reached here that a* Russian steamer has
made its way up the river Oxus and beyond
the Afghan frontier.
RECEIVED WITH CEREMONY.
St. Petersburg, January 22.—The
Chinese Embassy was received by the Czar
Monday with great ceremony.
CLOSED ITS DOORS.
Ogdens burg, N. Y., January 22.—The
Judson Bank has closed Its doors.
EVENING TELEGRAMS,
THE ARLINGTON EJECTMENT
SUIT.
Action of the Rotter Investigating'
Committee.
LIBEL SUIT AGAINST THE NEW
YORK TIMES.
WHY BISMARCK’S DISCIPLINE BILL
WAS WITHDRAWN.
New Evidence in the Cobh Murder
Trial.
UNITED STATES SENATORS ELECTED.
Miscellaneous Matter*.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE POTTER COMMITTEE.
Washington, January 22.—The Potter
Committee met to-day and were in secret
session an hour. A Democratic member
asked that St. Martin should be called to
the stand or should be discharged from at
tendance as a witness, and upon this Shella-
barger, as couueel for Secretary Sherman,
put in a letter requesting that St. Martin
mignt be called for cross examination on
the testimony which he gave at New
Orleans and on the affidavit he has
recently filed with the committee. There
seemed to be a general disposition to com
ply with the request, but it was not defi
nitely decided. There was quite an ani
mated discussion with regard to the cipher
dispatches, Butler stiil protesting that it
would be wiser for both parties to leave the
investigation alone. He expressed his wil
lingness, however, to hand over the cipher
telegrams in his possession to the commit
tee, as he believed they ought to be made
public. The committee thought it advis
able not to call any witnesses in respect of
the dispatches until the bill for an addi
tional appropriation shall have passed the
Senate to-morrow. They will call Mr.
Moses, Clerk of the Senate, and other wit
nesses, who will testify respecting the Loui
siana certificates. The committee will sit
in Washington, but a sub committee will
probably be appointed to take the evidence
of Mr. Tilden in New York.
NEW EVIDENCE DICOVERED IN THE COBB
TRIAL.
New London, January 22.—Evidence
which, if admitted, will effect a new trial
for Kate Cobb, is believed to have been dis
covered. The Telegram will publish on
Thursday the sworn statement of a lady re
siding in another part of the State to
the effect that while riding with
Charles H. Cobb, Jr., one day
last spring, he told her, under
a pledge of secrecy, th»t he was in the
habit of takiDg Fowler’s solution of arsenic
medicinally. The lady kept silence during
the trial partly through a natural femiuine
dread of being a witness, and partly through
the belief that Kate Cobb would be ac
quitted.
CHOLERA INCREASING.
London. January 22.—An official report
received at Madrid’ 6tates that cholera is in
creasingly prevalent in Asia Minor.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief Signal observer,
Washington, D. C., January 22.—Indica
tions for Thursday:
In the South Atlantic States, increasing
cloudiness, and in the northern portions
light rain, with falling barometer, slight
changes in temperature and southerly to
westeily winds.
In the Gulf States, partly cloudy weather
and light local rains, warm southerly winds
and falling barometer, followed in the south
west by colder northerly winds and rising
barometer.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, partly
cloudy and slightly colder weather, with
southwest to Yiorthwest winds, and by |
Thursday morning rising barometer.
In the Middle States, increasing cloudi
ness aud areas of rain, with southeast to
southwest winds, falling barometer, and on
the coast a slight rise in temperature, fol
lowed duriDg Thursday afternoon by rising
barometer, southwest to northwest winds
and a slight change in temperature.
BALTIMORE ITEMS—B’NAI BKITH GRAND
LODGE.
Baltimore, January 22.—W. Tell Giles,
Judge of the United States District Court,
District of Maryland, is dangerously ill.
In the United States Circuit Court to-day
William McCleary, judge of election, was
indicted for interfering with a special depu
ty United States Marshal at the late Con
gressional election. He pleaded guilty, and
a small fine was imposed.
The annual session of the District Grand
Lodge No. 5, Independent Order of B’nai
Britb, met here to-day, and will continue
three days. The District Grand Lodge com
prises the States of Maryland, \ irginia,
Georgia, North and South Carolina and the
District of Columbia, and number thirty-
four lodges, of which seven are in Balti
more. One hundred and two delegates are
present to-day.
THE ARLINGTON CASE.
Alexandria, Va., January 22.—The
trial of the Arlington case was begun in
the United States Circuit Court to-day. A
jury was empaneled, and the plaintiff
proved ownership of possession of the
estate by the late G. W. P. Custis, and
its de\ise by him to his grandson
G. W.C. Lee, the plaintiff in the case of
its occupation by the government, and the
sendee of suits of ejectment. The probate
of the will of Mr. Custis was also introduc
ed. The defendant intimated the Intention
to prove the title of the government by the
certificates issued by the District Tax Com
missioners under an act of Congress for the
sale of property in insurrectionary districts
in default of payment of taxes.
french politics.
Paris, January 22.—The correspondent of
the Times says Uarabetta will certainly re
main in the ranks of the extreme Left to
bring them to more moderate views. As
soon as he obtains this result he will return
to the leadership of the united Left with
his strength unimpaiied by a passing defeat.
The JJaily Telegraph 1 s Paris correspondent
says the Cabinet’s every act will in future
be carefully scrutinized, and its continued
existence will depend on the sufferance of
the Chamber of Deputies. This is exactly
the result which best suits Gambetta’s
policy.
LIBEL SUIT AGAINST THE NEW YORK TIMES.
New York, January 22.—In the United
States District Court to-day the trial was
commenced in a suit for £50,000 damages
preferred by Col. Ellison S. Kiett, pf South
Carolina, against the New York Tunes, for
libel in a special dispatch from Washington
in September, 1877, to the effect that
plaintiff had been arrested for bigamy. Col
Kiett alleges the article was entirely false.
Mr. George Jones, of the Tunes, in his an
swer, avers that the article does not apply
to the plaintiff, but to another person by the
name of Col. Kiett.
NOMINATIONS.
Washington, January 22.—The following
nominations of Postmasters were made to
day: Mrs. Mary C. Daniels, at Willson, N.C.;
Charles W. Arnold, at Albany, Ga.; Charles
A. Woinble, at Tuscuinbla, Ala.; James J.
McLemare, at Lafayette, Ala.; Thomas T.
Arlington, at Florence, Ala.; Mrs. Pauline
Wood, at Corsicana, Texas.
BISMARCK’S DISCIPLINE BILL.
London, January 22.—A Berlin dispatch
says it is reported that Bismarck is willing
to* withdraw his bill to discipline the
Keichstag, in consequence of the vehement
opposition it meets with from the Diets of
various German States.
UNITED STATES SENATORS ELECTED.
Harrisburg, Pa., January 22.—Cameron
to-day was formally declared elected United
States Senator.
Albany, January 22.—The two houses of
the Assembly formally elected Conkling
Senator to-day.
CASE OF U. S. MARSHAL TURNER.
Washington, January 22.—The Depart
ment of Justice has information indicating
that the court at Selma will grant the ap
plication for the release of United States
Marshal Turner from jail.
THE WISCONSIN SENATORSHIP.
Madison, Wis., January 22.—The Repub
licans nominated Matt Carpenter for United
States Seuator, by acclamation, this morn
ing. This secures his election.
One of the Vassar Girls.—At Vas
sal* college not more than a dozen years
ago was a young girl from an interior
town of Wisconsin. Of wealthy parents,
herself handsome and unusually bright,
about to graduate, after which she was
to wed her heart’s choice, her cup of
happiness seemed full to the * brim.
Probably prompted by pure cussedness,
an unnatural brother set about break
ing the engagement, and only too
soon succeeded in his purpose. The
sorrow-stricken young girl returned,
though on the eve of honors that had
cost her several years’ hard labor. Her
lover left home and friends for the far
West, not to return. A short time after
the girl’s parents died, and the large es
tate was divided between the surviving
children. Taking her share, nearly $100,-
000, she turned her back on the home of
her childhood. She came to Milwaukee,
and has since lived a most isolated life,
not admitting anybody to her confi
dence. repulsing all attempts at friend
ship, the heart that had thrilled at the
delicious words of love became thorough
ly crusted over and suspicious of man
kind. Retiring deeper into seclusion
year by year, to-day but few dare face
her stern presence. She seldom if ever
writes or receives a letter, makes no
calls, or has no callers, and in short i9 as
entirely alone as one can be in this busy
world.* With an immense income, and
one that is rapidly increasing, she spends
hut little money, and that for neces
sities. Rarely is she seen on the streets,
and then as if she feared the touch of
the bustliDg pedestrian. The brother
does not live a hundred miles from Mil
waukee.—Milwaukee Sentinel.
His Teeth Gnawing IIis Vitals.—
The Syracuse (X. Y.) Courier says :
“Mr. Randall, of Onondaga Hill, who
swallowed his false set of teeth six
weeks ago, was in this city yesterday.
He still complains of great distress at
times in his stomach, and says he has
lost some fifteen or twenty pounds of
flesh. He has received many letters
from different parts of the country from
people who have been similarly troubled,
iiunouncing remedies and operations ap
plied and performed on them, but he has
not availed himself of any of them. He
prefers to wait awhile before adopting any
measures to relieve himself. There have
been instances where operations on the
stomach of such cases have been made,
and that the patient has recovered and
had good health.”
The following anecdote, which is re
lated of Governor Garcelon, of Maine, is
said to have added greatly to the popu
lar esteem in which he is held During
the spring of 1870, in Augusta, an Irish
Iwcman had fallen, helplessly intoxica
ted, and was floundering about in the
mud and mire. Surrounding her was a
crowd of men and boys, and as she made
(repeated attempts to rise and fell back
again—making a most immodest specta
cle—a loud, leering laugh arose from the
bystanders. Dr. Garcelon, riding through
the streets in his private carriage, was
drawn to the spot, ami immediately get
ting out of his carriage, lifted the sense
less woman into it ana carried her to her
home.
It has been discovered that Thomas
Camm, a tramp, who was admitted into
the Bedford county, Pa., almshouse with
frozen feet, the other day, has $3,000 on
deposit in a Hollidaysburg bank.
The German Government, in its
budget, proposes granting $15,400 to a
German society ler the exploration of
Africa.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Radical* Howling Again—Tecuni*ek
Sherman Fighting Had—Army Of
tic era Ineasy—The Tariff Quenllon
—Seuator Thurman to be Honored
—The Hill .Movement Again*! Gov,
Colquitt Dead in Wa*hin°ton—
John Sherman to Try and Vindi
cate Himself— Modjeaka.
Special Correspondence of the Morning Xetes.
Washington, January 30.—The Radical
is up aud yelling again. Virginia and Ala
bama are this time the red rags which make
the old bull froth at the mouth. The reso
lutions of the Virginia State Senate defining
the line between Federal and State au
thority and jurisdiction, is made one of the
“latent embers of rebellion,” aud inveighed
against accordingly. Alabama, by the resolu
tion in her Legislature providing that that
body shall choose Presidential electors, adds
to the fury of the Radical bull, while the
arrest of Mayer and Turner, District Attor
ney and Marshal, respectively, in Alabama,
seems to set him perfectly wild with rage.
He is not mad though. lie is only glad-
glad to yell that the South is unreconstruc
ted; that she wants to leave the Union
again, and that the doctrine of States rights
has as firm a hold as ever in the
minds of the Southern people. It is evident
that though the best men of both parties
want to further cement the North and
South in good will, the bats and owls will
none of it. “Peace, peace,” may be the
cry of those who have the good of the
country at heart, but there is no desire for a
burial of sectionalism in the hot beds of
Radicalism. Outcries against the
South is pure Radicalism’s chief
delight, and its chief hope for future
power. Mr. Devens, the Attorney General,
is rapidly leaning to this outcry. He gives
garbled accounts of such occurences as the
recent one iu Alabama to the represeuta
tives of the Radical papers, who wire it
over the country. This looks very much
like the days of Grant.
TSCUMSEii SHERMAN MAD.
General Tecumseh Sherman is mad
General Tecumseh Sherman is fighting (?)
mad. He hatched that legislative
anomaly known as the Burnside bill.
He bad himself made prospectively greater
than the President of the United States.
The bill, if it had ever become a law, would
have hacked most severely into the staff.
The staff rose up as one man and combined
and fought against it. The measure has been
defeated before coming fully before
Congress—it was still born. One
of the lines of attack followed by the staff
was through the newspapers. One of the
newspapers that it got on its side was the
Philadelphia Tunes. A series of editorial
articles appeared in that sheet, not only
abusing the Burnside bill, but pitching
most heavily and pretty thoroughly into
General Sherman himself. This hurt Te
cumseh. What made it hurt the more was
the fact that he knew that the ground
work for the articles was furnished by
officers directly under him here in Wash
ington. But that was not all. To the War
Department is attached a one-horse branch
of the Government Printing Office where
the official orders and general printing
necessary is executed. No officer has a
right to have private printing done there.
The staff officers religiously clipped and
preserved all the articles against Sherman
and the Burnside bill which appeared in the
Times These they took to the printing of
fice of the department and had printed in
convenient shape for circulation. Sherman
has heard of it. He does not think that the
General of the army ought to lower himself
to interfere in such a small matter, especial
ly as interference would look something like
petty revenge "ou bis part. So he says
nothing of this violation of law by
staff officers UDder him. But he is mad—
boiling mad. Come to think of it, it is cal
culated to make any one similarly situated
mad.
Speaking of army matters brings to mind
that army officers are a little uneasy. They
see that there is but little prospect of any
scheme for the reorganizatoiu of their
branch of the service passing at the present
session of Congress.
Some such reorganization might be per
feefced if any measure that would even par
tially satisfy officers and members of Con
gress could be perfected, but the army is
too hard to satisfy. The uneasiness of the
officers comes in when they think that both
branches of the next Congress will be
Democratic. If nothing toward army re
organization is accomplished at the present
session that subject will be an open one be
fore the next Congress. It will be taken
up, and the army reorganized from a Demo
eratic standpoint entirely. The Democrats
won’t pay so much attention to the cries
of superfluous officers who want to be kept
in their fat places. This the officers are be
ginning to see, and are consequently a little
uneasy, as it were.
SENATOR BECK AND THE TARIFF.
Senator Beck wanted to know the other
evening if the House was going to give the
Senate any sort of a bill this session by
which the present discriminating tariff in
favor of the North could be changed. Be-
iHg answered in the negative, he said:
“Well, I am sorry to hear that
there is no prospect cf anything being
done in that direction by the present Con
gress. But wait until the next, and there
will be changes in the tariff by which the
trade of the whole country will be benefit
ed, not the monopolies of certain favorite
sections, as under the existing tariff laws.”
SENATOR THURMAN IN THE NEXT SENATE.
If Senator Thurman is not dragged out of
his seat to head the Democratic gubernato
rial ticket iu Ohio, he will come in for an
honor at the hands of the next Senate.
Nearly all the Democratic Senators are
in favor of electing him to be President
pro tem. of the next Senate. Ferry now
holds the place, and although a good execu
tive officer, cannot wear Thurman’s shoes
by a good deal. Thurman will be a head
and shoulders above any man that has been
President pro tem. of the Senate for many
years.
ANOTHER “MOVEMENT.”
In making mention of the various “move
ments” in a recent letter one was omitted.
That was the Ben llill movement
against Governor Colquitt. The recent
spurt of this movement has died
out after creating a brief sensation. There
is not now a ripple at this end of the line
to show that there ever was any “move
ment” of the kind afloat.
JOHN SHERMAN IN A NEW' ROLE.
John Sherman has undertaken a self-
imposed task of considerable dimensions.
It is the vindication of John Sherman. lie
says that the press of certain portions of
the country has for the past eight or ten
years been villifying him. They have
kept it up at such a rate that even
great many people in the
country who have honest convictions be
lieve that he is corruptible. He has stood
it as long as he is going to, he says, and now
intends to vindicate his honor. “It may
take some time,” he plaintively adds, “to
convince the people—in the face of all the
slanders that have been published concern
ing me—that I am an honest man.” There
are more tlian one that agree with him
there.
LOOKING AFTER HIS HEAD.
J. J. Martin, Postmaster at Montgomery,
Ala., is in town. His commission expires
on the 17th of March next, and he is feeling
around and shaking his head to see if it is
safe.
MOD4ESKA AND STYLE.
Modjeska left here last Saturday, after a
very successful week at the National Thea
tre.* A rather peculiar style of emotional
acting and her elegant dressing gave her a
full house every night. She has a large
company with her, and it is far above the
mediocre. She and her companions travel
in 6tylc. They have a special Pullman pal
ace that they go iu everywhere. When they
strike a railroad that the gauge of the car
won’t fit, the car is raised from its trucks,
and new ones put in their places. They went
South to Richmond, Charleston, Columbia,
Savannah, Macon, Atlanta, New Orleans,
etc. Potomac.
The Outrageous Tax on Quinine.—
There is a loud call from various parts
of the country for the repeal of the duty
on quinine, which is characterized as a
blood tax.” The wholesale price of
quinine in this country is about $3 60 an
ounce, and in the foreign market about
$3 an ounce, a price at which, but
for the duty of twenty per centum ad
valorem, it could be placed on sale in our
own markets. The difference of sixty
cents an ounce goes, it is stated, almost
w ithout deduction into the pockets of
the two Philadelphia monopolists; and
on the estimate that the consumption of
quinine in this country is 1,200,000
ounces a year, the American people have
been paying $720,000 a year to two firms,
whose estimated wealth is twenty mil
lions. Naturally a strong lobby is* work
ing here to defeat the bill of Representa
tive Morrison repealing the duty on qui
nine, but in view of the public feeling
expressed in opposition to the tax, which
bears so oppressively on the sick and
needy, it is to be hoped they will not
succeed.—Washington Star,
THE NATIONAL MILITIA
Preparing a Law to be Operative In
A11 the States.
The New York papers bring us the
proceedings of the National Militia Con
vention, which adjourned in that city on
Friday, to reassemble in St. Louis Sep
tember 30. Among the delegates pres
ent were Generals G. T. Beauregard and
D. H. Maury of Louisiana, Adjutant
General Moise of South Carolina, Adju
tant General Alexander of Iowa, Colonels
C. W. Squire and Charles L. Hunt and
Captain J. B. Dougherty of Missouri
Captain John L. Loomis of Illinois, and
Adjutant General Meilly of Ohio.
Soon after the convention met, Judge
Hil 4 on entered the room, and having
been invited to the President’s desk, de
livered a brief speech. lie said the con
vention little knew how deeply people are
interested in this militia movement.
“We realize that organizations like those
of the nations of Europe have become
necessary, and yet the individuality of
each of our States must be preserved,
but in some cases it may, and will, be
found that the State rights must yield.’
Then the delegates settled down to work
on a bill which they hope Congress will
pass, and which they believe will be of
great advantage to the militia of the
United States.
The first section of the proposed hi 11
provides that all able-bodied male citi
zens between 18 and 45 years of age, ex
uumutu iu auu yw ua10 vi ugv, va-
cept such as the law exempts, shall con
stitute the militia. This militia shall be
divided into two classes—the active, to
be known as the National or State
Guard, and the inactive to be known as
the reserve militia. The active militia
shall consist of such regular uniformed
and enlisted troops as are or may be
organized in pursuance to such laws as
have been or may be passed by the
Legislatures, and shall be first called out
for service. The reserve militia is to be
liable to no active duty except when
called into active service in time of war,
riot, or insurrection.
The convention does not claim the
power over the inactive militia, and all
the sections of the new bill are directed
toward furthering the interest of the ac
tive militia, or, as it is called, the State
or National Guard.
The second clause of the first section
declares that in time of peace the num
her of the National or State Guard upon
which suchState shall be entitled to receive
aid under the new act should not exceed
700 regular uniformed commissioned ('tit
cers and enlisted men for each Repre
sentative in Congress.
Section 2, which is designed to take
the place of sections 1,625, 1,626, 1,627,
1,628 and 1,631 of the Revised Statutes,
provides that the organization of the
militia of the States and Territories shall
be prescribed by their Legislatures
respectively, and that such organization
shall conform as closely as possible to
the method prescribed for the regular
army; that in times of peace the num
her, rank, and duties of the stall officers
and the organization of bureaus of ad
ministration shall be such as the Legisla
tare shall direct, and that when called
into the service of the United States the
President shall assign and designate the
commanders of brigades and divisions
which he may organize, and the num
bers, ranks and duties of the staff officers
shall be the same as prescribed for the
regular army.
Section 3 retains section 1,629 of the
Revised Statutes as to exemptions from
military duty.
Section 4, which is to take the place
of sections 1,630 and 1,638, provides that
officers of the active militia of the same
grade shall take precedence according to
the date of their commissions, and that
when there are two of equal date, their
rank shall be determined by lot.
Sections 5, 6 and 7 occasioned much
debate, in which the Southern militia
officers bore a conspicuous part. In fact
it was particularly noticeable the dele
rates front the South and West, particu
larly from the South, took great interest
in all the deliberations of the conven
tion, and while New Y’ork and New
England delegates kept silence most of
the time, their voices were heard, and in
such a manner as to demand the hearing
and rcs|>cct of the convention.
As finally adopted, the fifth section
provides tli^ the President shall appoint
a board of seven officers, two of them
army officers, the other five to be select
ed from the active militia of the East
ern, Middle. Southern, Western and Pa
cific States, for the purpose of selecting
a suitable pattern of campaign dress and
equipment for the active militia.
Section six provides that the active mi
litia shall be furnished with complete
dress aud equipments, to be worn when
the militia is called out for active ser
vice, and whenever the military authori
ties of the States may direct. Rut it was
decided that this provision should not
interfere with the wearing of any full
dress uniform permitted by the States;
but no moneys appropriated under this
act shall be expended therefor.
Then follows the usual section regard
ing the exemption of uniforms and
equipments from taxation or from suits
or sales for debt and the like.
The eighth section says that the Presi
dent shall appoint a board of seven offi
cers to prepare a system of rules for the
discipline of the active militia, to be com
posed as was the board referred to in the
fifth section, said rules to be based upon
the regulations prescribed for the army,
and where approved by the Presi
dent, to be published by the War Depart
ment in a small pocket volume aud is
sued upon State requisitions, so that each
officer ami soldier of the militia shall be
provided with a copy.
The ninth section provided that $1,-
000,000 be appropriated for the purpose
of providing arms, ammunition and
other ordnance and quartermaster's stores
for the active militia of the several States
and Territories, and that such shall be
apportioned among the several States
and Territories, in proportion to the
number of their regularly organized and
uniformed active militia in service on the
1st day of December in each year.
The vital clause of the tenth section
provided that the small arms and ammu
nition for the militia shall be of the pat
tern selected by the States respectively,
but of the same calibre and chamber as
that prescribed for the regular army, and
to be suitable for military service. Sec
tions eleven, twelve, thirteen aud four
teen take the place of many old ones,
and arc important as making clear the
duties and provisions therein contained.
They are as tollows:
Section 11. There shall bean Adjutant
General in each State and Territory, who
shall, under the direction of its Gov
ernor, carry into execution and perfect
the established system of military disci-
>iine. It shall be his duty to collect and
’orward to the War Department all re
ports required by this act.
Section 12. [In place of section 1,636.]
It shall be the duty of the Adjutant
General of each State aud Territory, on
the 1st day of January in each year, to
make an annual return to the War De
partment, in such form a3 shall be, from
time to time, prescribed by the Secretary
of War, of the results of the annual in
spcction of the active militia and military
property of such State or Territory, and
to make special reports when called upon
by the Secretary of War.
Section 13. [In place of section 1635.]
For the purpose of ascertaining the num
ber and condition of the active militia in
the several States and Territories, an an
nual inspection thereof shall be made by
an officer or officers thereof, whose duty
it shall be to report thefresult of such in
spection to the Adjutant General thereof,
stating the number of such active militia,
the actual condition of their arms, ac
coutrements, ammunition and equip
ments, their deficiencies, and every other
particular relating to the advancement of
good order and military discipline, to
gether with a detailed statement of the
military property belonging to such State
ofTerritory, with its condition.
Section 14. Notice shall be given by
each Adjutant Genera] to the Secretary
of War of the time and place of the
annual inspections of the active militia
and military property of his State or
Territory, and thereupon the President
shall detail an officer from the active or
retired list of the army to accompany
the State Inspector during his inspec
tion, and observe the general condition
of the troops and public property, with
the consent and under the general direc
tion of the Governor of such States or
Territories, and while so. detailed retired
officers 9hall receive the same pay and
emoluments as officers of their respec
tive grades upon the active list; pro
vided, however, that such officer shall
have no authority in any way to control
or interfere with the State Inspector, or
to exercise any power or authority dur
ing such inspection over the officers or
men or the militia or National Guard in
spected. He shall, make a report
duplicate, and transmit one copy to the
Governor of such State or Territory and
another to the Secretary of War, of such
matters as shall, in his judgment, re
quire to be brought to their attention,
which reports shall be confidential, and
shall not be made public, except with
the consent of the Governor and tue
Secretary of War.
Section 15 provides that each State
receiving any portion of tliejjappropria-
tion made in the act shall be required to
equip and maintain at least one rifie
range for the instruction of its militia in
rifie practice, and require them to be in
structed therein.
Section 16 authorizes the Secre
tary of War, out of the moneys here
by appropriated, to offer annually to the
regularly organized and uniformed mili
tia of each State and Territory (pro
vided they number at least 1,000 men) a
prize not to exceed $100 in valne, for
competition in rifle practice; also, to
annually offer a prize of $1,000, to be
shot for by a “team” or detachments
from the National Guard or militia of
each State or Territory, from each of the
three divisions of the army, aud from
the navy, to he divided among the three
teams standing highest in such match.
The terms and conditions of both
matches to be prescribed by the Secretary
of War.
Each State team shall be certified to by
the Adutant General of its State as con
sisting of its regularly organized and
uniformed militia, and transportation to
and from said last named match shall
be furnished out of such appropriation
to such a team and reserve, not to ex
ceed fifteen in number from each State,
under such regulations as may be pre
scribed by the Secretary of War.
The following section was discussed
thoroughly, but after Gen. Beauregard
and otiier veterans had agreed strongly
in its favor, it was adopted, as follows:
Section 17. Upon the application of
any regimental, division or brigade com
mandcr of the militia or National Guard
of any State or Territory, the Governor
thereof may apply to the Secretary of
War to assign an officer from the active
or retired list of the army to act as adju
tant of such regiment, or assistant adju
tant-general or~ chief of staff of such
brigade or division. Whenever the pub
lic interests will admit, the Secretary of
War is authorized to assign such officer
for such duty, with his consent.
Officers so assigned shall be commis
sioned as officers in such militia by the
Governor of such State or Territory, and
shall hold such commissions during Lis
pleasure. While performing such duty
they shall give their entire time, or so
much thereof as shall be necessary to
properly perform the duties of their
office, shall be subject to the rules and
regulations of such militia while so as
signed, and shall receive the full pay and
emoluments of their rank.
A SELFEXILE.
The Forest or (’haittill)-—-The Home
ot an Ex-Confederate Statesman
A correspondent of the London Telt-
r/ram, writing from Paris, gives the fol
lowing interesting account of a distin
guished ex-Confederate statesman, whose
son, W. Grayson Maun, Esq., is one of
our fellow citizens:
Among those who in former days de
servedly occupied high places in public
esteem Col. A. Dudlev Mann, now living
in retirement near Paris, is one who
merits the recollection of his country
men. Born in Virginia, a Kentuckian
by adoption, and a classmate of Albert
Sydney Johnston at West Point, after
reaching maturity he entered public life
in fho o/>rvir>* niirnml in 18-12
No assignment shall be made of any
officer for this duty to the prejudice of
the regular army, norunless he shall hare
seen at least three years’ service in the
field. All such assignments may be re
voked at pleasure by the Secretary of
War by giving notice thereof to the Gov
ernor of the State. Upon receipt of such
notice by the latter, the officer whose as
signment is so revoked shall cease to be
an officer in the National Guard or mili
tia of such State or Territory, and shall
be honorably discharged therefrom by its
Governor.
The last section adopted was thought
to be important by all the officers present.
It read:
Section 21. Theip shall be at least one
annual encampment of the militia of each
State and Territory for at least five days,
for purposes of instruction. On the ap
plication of the Governor of any State,
so much of the annual appropriation as
may be due upon its quota may be ap
plied toward the subsistence and ex
penses of the troops encamped, not to
exeeed the rate of one dollar a day per
man, and for the purchase of necessary
camp and garrison equipage.
The chairman of the delegates report
ed the number of uniformed troops in
the respective States as follows : New
Y’ork 19,300, Pennsylvania 10,000, Ohio
8,600, Illinois 8,000, Iowa 5,500, Massa
chusetts 4,400, South Carolina 4.000, New
Jersey 3,300, North Carolina 2,750, Con
necticut 2.500, Missouri 2,300, Louisiana
2,400, Michigan 2,000, Rhode Island
2,000, California 2,000, Virginia 1,200,
Vermont 750.
At 3 o’clock Col. William C. Church,
of the Army and Xacal Journal, received
the delegates at his residence in Irving
place. Afterward the delegates made
permanent organization, nominated an
executive committee of one officer from
each State and Territory in the Union,and
decided to hold the next convention in
St. Loais on the 30th of September next.
Then there were votes of thanks to
everybody. There was a round of sig
nificant applause when Gen. Beauregard
arose and moved a graceful vote of thanks
to Gen. Hancock for his courtesy.
Who Could Offer More than this
Child l
Pittsburg Telegraph.
The following little story is a touchin
one, and the hero thereof is a well known
young gentleman of this city: He has
been somewhat wild in his habits in the
past, but for four months he had ab
stained from drink and spent bis eve
nings at home. One evening, three
weeks ago, he went out calling and some
one gave him a glass of wine. This
aroused the sleeping fiend, and he went
off on a grand carouse. For three days
he lost all mastery over himself, and
scarcely knew where lie was. On the
morning of the fourth day he was com
paratively sobered up. He wandered
into the reading room of one of our
hotels, where be was well known,
and sat down and stared moodily
into the street. Presently a
little girl of about ten years came
in and looked timidly around the room.
She was dressed in rags, but she had a
sweet, intelligent face that could scarcely
fail to excite sympathy. There were five
persons in the room, and she went to
each, begging. One gentleman gave her
a five cent piece, and she then went to the
gentleman spoken of and asked him for
a penny, adding, “I haven’t had any
thing to cat for a whole day.” The gen
tleman was all out of humor and he said
crossly: “Don’t bother me; go away; I
haven't had anything to eat for three
days. ” The child opened her eye s 1 a sly
wonder and stared at him for a moment,
and then walked slowly towards the door.
She turned the knob and then, after hesi
tating a few seconds, she turned quickly
and walked straight up to him who
had spoken so ill-naturedly, and gently
laying the five cents she had received on
his knee said with a tone of tfuc girlish
pity in her voice, “If you haven't had
anything to eat for three days you take
this and go and buy some bread. Per
haps I can get some more somewhere.”
The young Yellow blushed to the roots
of his hair, ahd lifting the miniature
Sister of Charity in his arms he kissed
her two or three times, in delight. Then
he took her to the persons in the room
and to those in the corridors and the
office, and told the strpy and asked contri
butions, giving himself all the money he
had with him. He succeeded in raising
over forty dollars, and sent the little
kindly hearted one on ter way rejoicing.
in the diplomatic service abroad in 184:
and served in Belgium. Switzerland and
the Hanoverian States, besides being en
trusted w ith a mission to Hungary, and
remained in Europe until recalled to till
the position of Under Secretary of State
during the administration of Pierce. At
the beginning of the war he went heart
and soul with the South, aud was imme
diately selected by President Davis as
one of the Commissioners to Europe in
vested with powers plenipotentiary.
After the war he remained in France,
and now resides in the forest of Chan
tilly, one of the most romantic spots in
the neighborhood of the capital. His
house, a square stone building, stands on
a thickly wooded eminence overlooking
a beautiful valley, the domain of the
Duke d’Aumale, with a sweep of dense
ly timbered landscape cn either hand,
while across the valley rises a range of
gently swelling hills, presenting a view
of the most picturesque beauty. The
steep hillside in front of the villa is ter
raced with stone w alls covered w’ith ivy,
and the grounds are beautified with
many varieties of bright colored fragrant
flowers and shrubbery growing in luxuri
ance and profusion. Colonel Mann now
suffers from the physical infirmi
ties of advanced age, but retains
all the mental strength and vigor,
which in his earlier life gained him*
the respect and confidence of all the
leading men of his time. A perfect type
of the courtly Southern gentleman, kind
and winning in his manners, gentle in
deportment, deeply learned and of rare
conversational powers, none could fail
to recognize in him a man of marked
ability,"and the possessor of the noblest
qualities. IIis conversation is replete
with incidents of American history of
absorbing interest, as yet unpublished.
The friend and intimate associate of most
the great men of twenty-five years ago,
he retains a fund of historical and bio
graphical reminiscence which would
make a most valuable volume for the
bookshelves of every educated Ameri
can. Among his autograph letters may
be observed correspondence from La
martine, Lord Palmerston, Presidents
Tyler, Pierce, Buchanan, Davis, General
Sam Houston, who w r as one of his most
intimate friends. General Rusk, and a
host of others who have played
an important part in the events of their
day. Iu liis parlor the portraits of Presi
dent Davis, General Breckinridge and
Mr. Mason, of Confederate memory,
occupy prominent places, and when he
speaks of the war, its causes and conse
quences, it is with such a depth of feel
ing as shows that the years which have
passed since then hate not effaced from
his memory the tenderest recollections
of the people and the cause he loved
with such devotion.
lie lives alone, surrounded only by the
domestics of his household, and probably
will never return to America, but though
self-exiled and no longer connected with
the political machinery of the govern
ment, he deserves the remembrance of
his people as a just tribute to his present
w'orth and his past associations aud ca
reer.
s William and Mary.
U '1 ; U Iff! WI ikpubticari, .
The bill for tne relief of William and
Mary CoHege, defeated in the House last
'Friday; ha*' 4' rattter cflricrtis history.
The first memorial on the subject was
-presented by General Butler nearly ten
years ago, and favorably reported upon by
the Committee on Education and Labor
of the Forty-first Congress. No action
was taken, however. In the next Con
gress it was again brought up, and Hoar
of Massachusetts, as "Chairman of the
committee, made a favorable report.
Half of the other members from Massa
chusetts agreed with him, and the bill
finally passed by 111 to 75. Sent to the
Senate it was there shelved, through some
influence unknown to the outside world.
Now the measure, once adopted by a
Republican House, is rejected by a
Democratic House; 127 nays to 87 yeas.
Eight Republicans voted for it; among
them Loring of Massachusetts, Cox of
Ohio, and the three negro Congressmen
from South Carolina.
The defeat is due to Northern Demo
crats, who appear to have been fright
ened off by the “Southern claims”
clamor. We think they might have dis
played a little more moral courage with
out seriously damaging their reputation,
either as politicians or as men. The
sum asked $65,000, was not large
enough to hurt the treasury, and the ob
ject most w'orthy. The oldest college in
the country, Harvard excepted, endeared
to the country by many historical
associations, and by the great men it has
fitted for the country’s service—surely
William and Mary deserved this small
assistance iu its effort to recover from
the injuries inflicted by civil war. The
voting of the appropriation could not
have been considered as “the entering
w edge for a vast multitude of Southern
claims,” because there is not, so far as
we are aw'are, another Southern claim
like it. It is, in character and pur
pose, national and not sectional. An in
stitution of learning really belongs to
the nation and not to any State or sec
tion. William and Mary is not section-
alized by being in Virginia, any more
than Harvard is by being in Massa
chusetts. The doors of both are, and
always have been, open to all who choose
to enter. Those Democrats who helped
the Republicans beat this bill should
have taken broader and better views of
the question involved. They have
lowered themselves in the opinion of in
tclligent people by sacrificing right and
justice to imaginary expediency.
Acklin.
Washington Letter.
Acklin, the disreputable Congress
man, considers himself acquitted of dis
grace by the action of the House in re
fusing to investigate him, and is making
a desperate effort to re-enter societj', in
which he was quite a beau last winter,
but so far he has been omitted from all
invitation lists. He has tried two hotels
without success, and has now f one to a
third, bringing bis mother, and a sister
who is described as quite pretty, and is
recently from a French convent, to as
sist him in his endeavors to regain his
social position. Mrs. Godfrey, the sister
of Mrs. Congressman Willis, and the lady
who was mixed up in the affair at
Welker's last spring, has returned to
Washington, and has courageously ac
cepted Mr. Acklin’s attentions again—
which is, of course, the topic of great
comment. She has appeared in public
with him several times, and receives him
at her hotel; but her sister, 31 rs. Willis,
a woman of great beauty, and univer
sally respected, does not accompany them
in tbeir attendance at the theatre and
carriage rides, as she did last winter.
When Mrs. Senator Gordon, who was
escorted to Welker’s by General Rosser,
and was a witness of the contretemps last
spring, recognizes 3Ir. Acklin again, it
will be safe to call him a gentleman, but
neither she nor her husband, with whom
Acklin used to be intimate, have since
recognized him as an acquaintance.
Henry Ward Beecher Called on for
810.000 Damages.
New York .Sun, tilth.
The Agricultural Society of Alle
ghany county, Mil., arranged last fall for
a grand fair. The President of the
society, Mr. Lloyd Lowndes, who i9 also
the President of a national hank in that
place, wrote to Mr. Beecher’s Boston
agents to secure him, and they entered
into a contract for him to make an ad
dress in Cumberland on October 22d.
The agricultural society was to pay him
$300 for his services. Beecher was
widely advertised as one of the features
of the show. Posters were sent every-
where in that part of Maryland, with his
name alongside of the names of famous
animals from the prize farms of the
State. President Lowndes had several
hundred extra seats put up in the fair
grounds for the accommodation
of the expected throng, and he
made every arrangement to reap
the $10,000 harvest which he
thought was sure to follow the pres
ence of Beecher in the fair. After he
had diligently worked up the populace
to the tip toe of expectation, he was sur
prised and disgusted on October 22d, the
day before the advertised date of the lec
ture, by receiving a dispatch from Beech
er’s agents cancelling the engagement.
Mr. Beechorsaid that when he made the
engagement he expected to have engage
ments in Baltimore and Washington
which he could fill ou the same trip, and
thus make the journey profitable, but
failing to secure these other engagements,
he could not afford to take a three days’
trip for $200. This explanation was by
no means satisfactory,and the society has
made a demand on Mr. Beecher for $10,-
000 damages. If he fails to satisfactorily
arrange the difficulty, a suit for that
amount is to be begun.
Strange Behavior os a Roof.—El
len Mitchell, a young married woman,
was seen by her neighbors last evening
wading through the snow on the top 01
the five-story tenement in which she
lives, at 63djKast Ninth street. She was
barefootedvikd dressed only in night
clothes. Waving her arms wildly about
her head, she walked to the very edge of
the roof and made motions as it to jump
down, then retracing her steps, she ran
to another point in the same way. While
a throng congregated on the opposite
side of the street, waiting to see her jump
to her death, < )fficer Brown ran up the
hallway stairs, and, hurrying to her side,
drew her back as she was about to throw
herself off. She struggled to get away
from him, but was overpowered and
taken to her room. Afterward an am
bulance took her to Bellevue Hospital,
where she was confined in a cell. She
had been acting strangely for many
weeks past, and she is undoubtedly in
sane.—N. Y. Sun, 1 St/i.
A Cat os a Specif. Basis —The Cor
rugated Metal Company of East Berlin
on a recent pay day placed a five dollar
gold piece in the euvclopc of each em
ploye. Une of the persons thus paid
thought to surprise his wife, and dropped
the coin within a doorway through which
he knew she would shortly pass. Rut
the family cat preceded ber mistress
through the entrance and caught up the
bright coin between her teeth. In toss
ing it about playfully and biting it pussy
accidentally swallowed the treasure.
Various suggestions have been made to
the owner of the cat for the recovery of
his money, but none seem practicable.
The village butcher offers two dollars
and a half for her. Her owner says she
is not for sale.—Hartford (Con u.) Even
ing Pott.
Mcrdkiikd dy ms Brother—In Cor-
velle county, Texas, last week, two
brothers, William and Eck Hillis, resid
ing with their father, had a dispute over
a trifling matter at the breakfast table,
resulting in William dashing a cup of
coffee in Eck’s face. The latter rushed
out, seized a wagon singletree, returned,
and struck William a fearful blow over
the head. The father arose and sepa
rated the son9. Eck Beized a stick and
returned to the attack, when William,
grasping a gun, shot his brother dead.
Eck fell and expired without uttering a
word. Wi]l;am mounted a horse and
made his escape.
It is announced that after two years of
careful search, the successor of the Grand
I ( ama of Thibet has been discovered and
crowned. It was believed that the soul
of the late Lama had entered a child, and
it has taken a long time to find him.
How he was selected out of the four«
hundred millions now bis subjects is not
stated.
The O'Brien Mystery Aoain.—P.
S. O'Brien, the reputed brother of the
deceased millionaire, William S. O’Brieh,
together with his wife and daughter, left
the Baldwin, where they had been stop
ping for the past month, in the early part
of Ihe evening of Wednesday. Great
care was taken to prevent her husband
from being seen, he I icing closeted in the
bed room of the suite occupied by the
two while the porter removed the trunks
from the main room. The husband,
with his face covered with a broad scarf,
liis eyes only being visible, was hurried
into a carriage hired at a stand other
than that of the hotel, and driven rapidly
to the Palace Hotel, where they re
mained for a few houra, when they
left that caravansary, and up to a
late hour last night had not returned.
The sudden departure of the two from
the Baldwin is accredited to the fact that
J. McDonough and his wife, the sister of
the late W. S. O'Brien, had arrived at
the hotel from San Jose on the previous
day, and taken possession of an adjoining
suite of rooms, and to the visit paid Sirs.
O’Brien during the afternoon of Wed
nesday by Mrs. Flood and daughter. It
is rumored that the claim of the alleged
brother upon the estate of the deceased
millionaire has been settled by the pay
ment of $500,000 to him by Mr. Flood,
and that lie has disappeared as mysteri
ously a3 he appeared.—San Eranci»co
Call, Jan. 10.
How to Divide the Property.—He
hud been sitting still so long that the
mother expected to find him asleep, when
she looked around and asked:
‘ Well, Harry, what are vou thinking
of ?”
“Ma, are we very rich ?” he solemnly
inquired by way of reply.
“ In one way we are," she said, “your
father says he values me at three million
dollars, you at two millions, and the baby
at one.”
That closed the conversation on tliat
subject, hut next morning as Harry was
getting on his overcoat, he examined the
new patch which had been added, and
coollv observed:
“ Well, I think father had better sell
off about half of you or the whole of the
baby, and get the rest of us some decent
duds to put on.”—Detroit Free Preen.
A heart-sickening story comes all the
way from Wisconsin. According to the
chronicler a light haired young woman
and a dark-haired young woman, who
were room mates in a Milwaukee board
ing house, arose one morning, and,
dressing in the dark, the light-haired
gill twisted the dark-haired girl s switch
in with what there was of her own In
sufficient hair, and the dark haired girl
made similar use of the light-haired
girl's switch. As soon as they got down
to the breakfast table, where there was a
light, each saw that the other’s head
resembled a confused checker board.
After it had finally dawned upon them
what the difficulty was and they had
screamed as much as the occasion seemed
to call for, they retired without any
special premeditation.
A Wisconsin girl put on trousers aud
started through the deep snow to walk
six miles to a village for provisions, the
family larder being empty. She soon
became tired out, besides losing her way,
and the cold was intense. A big New
foundland dog which accompanied her
was the means cif saving her life. She
scooped out a hollow in the snow, lay
down in it, and made the warm dog lie
on her, shifting him about so as to suc
cessively cover the coldest parts of her
body. In that way she passed a whole
uight, and was not veiy severely frost
bitten. “With two or three more dogs,”
she says, “I would have got along very
comfortably.”
At Water bury, Conn., the people are
enjoying some unique contests. A boy
recently won a twenty-pound turkey by
eating half a blackberry pie, with liiB
hands tied behind his back, in the short
est space of time, and last Wednesday
evening ten pairs of shoes belonging to
different persons were placed in a barrel,
aud the ono who found his shoes first re
ceived a prize.
Henry Lcntpke, a laborer, aged forty
years, was working on the New York
Elevated Railroad at Sixteenth street and
Ninth avenue, Saturday, when he was
struck by a train which crushed him be
tween the ties. He fell through to the
street below, sustaining injuries from the
effects of which he afterwards died at
Roosevelt Hospital.
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