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ALBANY, OA.
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VOLUME 13.
ALBANY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY !i7. 1879.
NUMBER 9
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MUSTANG IN TEXAS.
FROM LOBBUM, OIL, TO WEUER. TEXAS.
REroRT OF THE PRESIDENT*
The Library Association belt! it*
UImAmft Thursday arening
of last week. The occasion was' very
pleasant ami wc hope profitable.—
President Mitchell read the following
report, which both the city papers
were requested to publish:
In jtehaif of (be present bosrtl of Di
rectors, allow me to submit the following
report:
As you are well aware, for several
years many of the citizens of Albany
have (HD endeavoring to organize in this
city a Library Association.
More than a year ago an Association
was organized, known as "The Young
Men’s Library Association," of Albany.
As a young lady member wittily re
marked, "the young men were to embrace
the young ladies." This organization
was commenced in the form of a reading
club, the members meeting weekly at
private residences and taking turns in
readings and recitations. After seven!
uch interesting gatherings, the interest
generally to die out, until at last
the Association was numbered among
the things of the past.
This state of aflaiis continued for
many months, until last fall, when six
young men, feeling a deep interest in the
Saturation of such a society
i this city, met together for the purpose
me mean* toward that end.
They formed themselves into a board of
directors, elected from among their num
ber a President, Secretary and Treasure^
and forthwith proceeded to business.
Their first move was to draw up a peti
tion tp the officers of the Young Men’s
Xibrery, requesting (hem to resign in
their favor, and to turn over to the libra-
they were endeavoring to establish,
alf donations promised. This petition
was cheerfully signed. There was then
hand thirty-five dollars and twenty
ccnts which had been collected as fol
lows: Initiation fees to old Library,
twenty dollars; net proceeds Miss Hern
don, ten dollars and twenty cents; I>r. W.
'. Bacon share of performance of “City
Minstrels,” five dollars, making a total
'* dollars and twanty cents.
NOTES ABOUT TEXAS.
Messrs. Editors :—As I,hsre prom
ised a groat many of- my fHendt in
Georgia that they should again hear
from me, I do not know of any bettcr
mode of complying .than seeking, the
leverage of your valuable journal, as
I am mostly known through it. Ac
cordingly, 1 will say that I arrived
safe and sound on the 1st instant, five
days all rail travel. The trip from
lartbnrg to Eufaula, is without in
terest to most of the people of South
west Georgia..^* most of your renti
ers are acquainted with the road, the
country, its agricultural and indus
trial wealth and resources.
Taking the cars at Eufaula, we ar
rived samo day at Montgomery nt
dusk; here we met a number ef Ini
migrants all bound for Texas. We
discussed a hasty plate of oysters,
purchased an Immigrant ticket, and
••all aboard” for Decatur. This route
was traveled in the night, and but
little could be seeu of the country,
but Immigrants kept pouring in up
on iis until we readied Memphis,,
where at least fire coaches were filled
to overflowing; we may safely esti
mate five hundred. We conversed
with many of them, nud found the
major portion to be of a class and
stamina tbnt Texas has long needed.
They come self-sustaining, and-able
to liny farms and stock, or do business
on ilieir own account. Many are
seeking the grain regions of North
ami Northwest Texas; whilst others
are on prospecting tours, seekiug rich
lands to cultivate upon them whatso
ever agricultural product isbestadap-
ted to the soil. Taking a view of
Memphis from the cars, one would
suppose that that once prosperous city
liad lost all of its city pride, so dilap
idated does everything look, and we
understand through the press .that
the charter lias been surrendered, and
it is now thrown into the territory of
Tennessee. But when we take into
consideration the terrible yellow fever
sconrge through which the city pass
ed last year, a better state of affairs
could not have been expected. Here
agaiu the depot was crowded with
anxious Immigrants seeking homes
in the Lone Star State. Here wc
cross the largest river in the Union,
without a bridge. A leviathan steam
er swallows up our whole immigrant
train, and delivers it to another en
gine on the other side of the Missis
sippi, where we go tearing through-
the bottom in Egyptian darkness to
Little Rock, Arkansas, when; our
stay was just long enough to -get a
cup of coffee and a cheroot, (height
of onr ambition.) The country from
Little Rock to Texarkana, and from
Texarkana to Longview, Texas, along
the line isabroken piney country,bnt
poorly adapted to agricultural pur
suits, and ever and anon we could
hear the words of a disappointed Im
migrant: “If this is Texas, I don’t
received the following amounts
Net proceeds from Miss Pomeroy,
$13 03; Phonograph, $5 55, and from the
Albany Dramatic Association, the liberal
of $59 00, the entire net pro
ceeds from their performance of Ben
Bolt, making a grand total of $112 80.
The two rooms that we are now in
ere rented from Mr. Welch at a rental
ten dollars per month, and the amount
one hundred and twelve dollars and
eighty cents was expended in fitting up
the two room% painting, kalsomining,
putting up shelves, and in getting the nec
essary tables, etc. A full report of each
xpenditure can be obtained by reference
to the books of the Secretary.
Mr. Welch had promised a donation of
the Circulating Library, numbering about
six hundred volumes, upon condition that
ij value in books or money
should be raised by the Association.
This donation was brought to the rooms.
The City Council donated nearly seven
hundred Tolushes. known as the. “City
Library,’’ ud a number of other valuable
works were donated and deposited by
several citizens, making a total of over
fifteen hundred volumes.
The Library Association now numbers
over one hundred and forty members.
Mr. Henry (fill has been appointed Li<
brarian. The rooms of the Public Li-
brary are now kept open every day—ex
cept Sunday—from 11 to 12 o’clock in the
morning, from 2 to 6 in the afternoon and
from 7 to 9 o’clock at night. On Sundays
from 9 to 10:30 in the morning. The
rooms are free to all, the members
of the Association, however, alone being
entitled to draw out books from the Li
brary.
The present officers feeling that their
duty is performed, and the Library placed
upon a permanent basis respectfully re
sign their positions, said resignation to
take effect at our next regular meeting,
when a vote will be Liken by the Asso
ciation forth.: purpose of electing a Presi
dent, Vice-(resident, Secretary, Treasurer
and Board of Directors for the ensuing
year, each member who has paid his first
quarter's dues being entitled to a vote.
The report was adopted.
A pair of drawer*—straws in Ictn
onadc.—[Puck, A pair of pants—two
dots after 4 IWijf fhaoe.—{ITiila.lel
phla Chronicle. A pair'of slippers-
two eels.—[Albany Argus. A pair
of slioo’s—two women chasing a hen.
—[Rochester Democrat. A paro
“docks”—two physicians.— [White
hall Times. A pair o’ dies—two
drowning kitten*.—[ YonkersGazette.
A pair o' twins—Tom and .Terry. —
[Wert Jersey Press. Parachute—a
double barreled gun.—[The Graphic.
A pair of cans—can-can. A pair of
kiatos-r-tnUpa.
would meet up with some old Texan
who would tell him he was just trav
eling on the ragged edge, and that
was made to supply fencing, etc., ‘for
the interior and far-west; to enclose
the beautiful and rich prairie lands;
to build comfortable houses, to sup-
>ly fuel for the cities along the line,
■c could readily see the importance
of the rag.
From Longview to Houston, we
took the International & Great
Northern Railroad, upon whose
track run the finest coaches in the
South with obliging and accommo
dating officials. A few years ago the
road obtained judgement against the
State of Texas for $4,000,000, and the
State prolnptly liquidated the indebt
edness in lands, (I believe every al
ternate 20th section of the public do
main.) This makes the-Internatlon.
al & Great Northern R. R. rich ' in
land, and the company Are offering
the most liberal inaaoements to im
migrants from all quarters. At
Houston the .company have a regular
immigrant's home where families
can stop lor any reasonable length of
time jo enable the prospector to snit
himself in whatever character of
land he may fancy. AU-ihe Immi
grant has to furnish is rations and
ieddjng; even fuel is furnished him
free of cost
But, whilst speaking of immigra
tion, we cannot close our remarks
upon the subject without venturing a
few words of advice to those who
have made up their minds to come to
Texas, as there appears to be a ileal
of inquiry and a variety of opinions
upon this subject; and as I am not in
the interest of company, corporation
or individual, there certainly cau lie
no mere mercenary motive in what
I may say: If you have no relatives
or friends out here in whom you can
place implicit confidence iu, and they
do not know exactly what yon want,
you had better come yourself, or send
:i reliable prospector. Cornp to some
central point, Houston, for instance;
hci e you huve access to any portion
of the Stale by rail, penetrate the in
terior, provide yourself with a “mus
tang” (or a good gentle horse if you
i-an’t ride) blanket and steak-rope, if
in the Spring, as this is the poor
■nan’s corn-crib ; ride over the coun
try-watch the growing crop. Don’t
Ik: in a hurry, a trip through the.
country thus land-lninting will hard
ly bankrupt the poorest man. If you
expect to g«t lands cheap In thickly
settled neighborhoods, or immedi
ately around incorporated cities and
towns, you will be deceived, for those
who bought land eight and ten year*
ago for $5 per acre, wonld not .sell
to you now at $25; then they were
pioneers, and you have the same o
The great scarcity of labor and the
character,“ofwhich immigrant Hu-
reauh here imported has created a
doubt in (he ntlnds of tlic planter as
to the policy of advancing. As n
general thing we have no warehouse
or graneries hare to go to for ad-
vanecs, as each farmer has to do the
advancing, and nono like the iron
clad mortgage used in your State.—
The Exemption law i* extensive, and
aftorj paying for your land and team
tberff is II[tie danger of your being
annoyed with suits for debt; but if
von are hbt prompt in their payment,
it is a hard matter to find further in
dulgence anywhere near your terri
tory. The exemption extends to 200
ncrerf ol land, span of horses and ox-
eU, 'plantation tools, 20 hogs, 20 sheep,
buggy or pleasure carriage, house
hold and kitchen furniture, 200 bar
rels qojh, and some other minor item
that I at present dlsremeraber, as I
have not the law at hand; none of
which, can he waived without the
wife’s consent
Again, if a married man you are
entitled to 160 acres out of the public
domain, by paying registering fees at
the General Land Office, Austin. The
surveying wilt also cost a trifle. A
single man is entitled to80acres upon
complying with the same terms as
abovb; bat I do not think this applies
to the "colored citizen of African de
cent," as .the law was made before
they were recognized as citizens, and
I have never heard of any assuming
lo the privilege. There arc a variety
of other hints Wc could give the im
migrant, but they are too voluminous
ffir a communication ; lint what one
mi^ht fancy another would dislike,
so if you have made up vour mind to
make a move, wc say come and sec,
and if you think you have been duped
or decoyed here by the oily tongue
of tlieiminigraut agent, or overdrawn
pictures of the rcportoi-ial sluff, you
have the privilege of i-etui-iiing' to
your home’s, perhaps better satisfied
and contented to remain there than
if you had recklessly and-hastily
pulled up stakes anil left in a day.—
We have been asked by many iu your
Slate, “Where are tlic best lauds?”
This Is a hard question to answer,
even by one skilled in* agriculture,
and one, too, who has traversed the
whole State. Wc like Southwestern
Texas. It lias been our home for
twenty years, yet we troty there are
other portions of the State as good
and might suit others better. There
are lands and homes along on tlic Sun
Set R. R. from Houston to San Anto
nia thatmay be secured at reasona
ble figures, and vary according to lo
cation, improvements, etc. These
lands arc being rapidly taken up,
small farms are springing up iu every
direction; aud the stock interest is
moving lor the West. Every town
and village along the route shows ev
idence oT prosperity by rapid iuflux
of population and the erection of neat
anil substantial business houses.
There is a great error existing in tlic
minds ofthe immigrant in regard to the
scarcity of limber In the prairie belts or
Texas* Moat all of them are skirted with
a sufficiency for fuel purposes ; and as for
fencing, hedging is resorted to in some in
stances; the Bore DcArc grows bst and
soon makes on impregnable fence An
other resort is two planlu and a barbed
wire.' Flank coals from - $18 to $20 and
the wire 13c. per lb. This style of fence
is even used in districts where timber is
considered plentiful; and where all three
of the alternatives are inconvenient. It ap.
pears tlist nature has provided others.—
We have seen handsome farms enclosed
with rock, and the first one that came un
der onr observation appeared to us to be a
life time Job; but on interrogating the
builder, he informed ns that, with the fa»
cililies nature had provided that portion
of country, be could build rock fences
cheaper aud faster than others could who
bad the jails to split and put upon ibe
ground. ’ It requires no masonry or skill;
is an everlasting fence; -needs no repair ’
ing, and.can never get burned down. But
with all the fenciog facilities here adduc
ed, we frankly admit that your Stale can
far.discount it for cheapness; advantages
and disadvantages. As a general thing,
the prairie belts ot the conntry are water-
ed-with living streams, and there is con
sequently no great lack of stock-water,
and well water is generally available at a
depth of from 25 to 30 feet, and springs
are plentiful.
The tree school system is about as lib
eral as any Stats in the Union, and a large
landed interest is still in reserve for edu
cational purposes. It would be difficult
to settle in a neighborhood too remote
from a school house to send to, and after
passing the primary branches, there is no
need of sending outside the State to give
your child a polished education.
Mustano.
Weimer, Colorado co., Texas, Feb. ’79
er party, lie may take a hand in your
favor, ho doubt nor fear not on this
subject. If you como to Texas to
farm, try and arrange matters so as
The highest reach of human science to be self-siistainiug for the first
Ih the acieiitifie recognition of htivnnn I year, the lauds are rich and will re-
|ignorance.—Sir W. Hamilton. I turn you a good profit on the outlay
A Stock Law.
Editors Albany Nan:
It appears to a now oomor in this
region that oue of the most desirable
tilings needed in this county, or west
of the river, is a law which will com
pel farmers to keep their cattle en-
loftcd, and not wander at will up und
down the roads, thus making farm
ers keep in repair their entire fences.
To many this is not only an item of
oxjMmsc, but in a few years timber
for fences will be impossible to keep
them up. Now, if wc had a law
which would oblige all to keep their
cattle and liogs from running at large,
wc should not only savo our - timber
mid cost of making rails, hut it would
nlso enhance the value of our larms
for much of the space now covered
with woods could he elonned und
planted, while under the existing law
it is the same asso much capital Ivin
idle and paying no interest whatever
Another point in favor of abolishing
fences: the land which is now cover
,cd by the fences could be., planted,
and this on largo plantations would
amount to considerable. Farms with
.op-.
portunity of augmenting your landed bnt little timber would nlso he cn
wealth as those who roughed it years hgDccri in value. Farms at the North
cu'ty a*nf tear Indian* und’. dei^era- “■'e worth much more to-day than
does, we say to you''that wj now they wonld baifcnttlo were allowed
have some credit for civility, as oqr' -to'run at will. It costs many of us
population arc cosmopolite—if offB; Jj«j ro to m a k 0 rails and put up fences
iiiun knockB you down another wljl ,, •. .... - ,
pick you up, and if you are the weak t-U 1 * 11 ' 11 ‘l 00 * for * AXCfl ’
“.Supplement tlie llog Crop ”
Rakkii County, Ga., Feb 22,1879.
. Kihtorh News: Iii a recent issue of
your interesting journal some perti
nent suggestions upon the subject of
producing bacon cheaply, your cor
respondent, “J. Y.,” proposes a plan
of agriculture by which he claims
that bacon may bo produced at one
aud a half cents per pound. In study
ing the [ilnn that be proposes wc in
cline to the opinion that, his oat and
grass feed will tie exhausted some
two months before his pea crop is
ready for bis stock—an interval that
will necessarily require to bo filled or
bridged over with corn or early pea
crops.W Wo do not feel disposed to
disparage yonr correspondent’s sug
gestions, for they are in the right di
rection, and the subject Is one of vital-
importance to the whole South. The,
object of this correspondence is to
offer some suggestions supplement
ing the supply of meats. Now there
arc very few planters, either large or
small, who have not some snt plus cat
tle. This surplus, by prudent man
agement, may be made to supplement
the bog crop at less cost than any oth
er means that have been presented to
inv mind.
In most of onr section of Southern
Georgia our surplus cattle become fat,
and would make very fine beef from
grazing upon the wire grass. Where
the wild land grazing is not sufficient
to produce this fattening, turn your
surplus cattle upon your oat pastures,
the crab grass growing up after the
oats are cut off will fatten your cattle
as rapidly al that season of the .year,
say from May to last of July, as any
feed that you can furnish them. They
arc then ready for the butcher pen
Almost every planter has enough of
this surplus of stock to supply him
with meat not only tlic balance of the
year, but for the next eight or ten
months. And ordinarily from one
fourth to one half of tills surplus
stock is lost annually, from neglect
and want of a proper supply of food
during the winter. This is a most
culpable waste of the means that we
have in hand. A very little attention
to tlic subject, at the proper time,
would supply tlic demands of the la
boring furco on the farm, from this
source alone, forat least three months
of the year, at a less outlay of actual
ash than any other means within our
each. The meats thus raised, iu
many instances, would not cost over
half a cent per pound. Iu my imme
diate neighborhood almost every
plantation, within the last month, has
lost enough of this kind of surplus
stock to supply every individual on
the farm with a sufficient supply of
meat for three months. This is not
the only consideration, that is tlic
iicapuess of the meat, w hicli costs lit
tle more than the making, branding
and butchering, but it is a meat that
more easily digested and more
wholesome. There is no stand-point
from which wc may view the subject
that does not furnish evidence that
docs not disclose our culpable want
of prudence and economy. Shall this
state of unreasonable negligence con
tinue to exist among us? If so, let us
no longer coinplain of the high price
of meat, of bard times, of our pover
ty ; but make up our minds to spend
the balance of our days in repining.
It is true that before the lato war we
had not entered that school of neces
sity in whicli lessons of economy are
enforced. But what reason have wo
to boast of our intelligence if we
cannot now, under chaugcd circum
stances, adopt our words of thought
mil practical industry to the changed
ircumstancos under whicli wc now
live. And again, both sheep aud goats
thrive and multiply rapidly upon the
alive grasses ot the county that grow
in.profiisiou all over our uncultivated
lauds, requiring no field that wc pro
duce by our labor. A small herd of
these, at. no other cost than the mark
ing anil occasional penning up, will
furnish a most healthy anil palatable
hnugc of diet for our tables. It is
not necessary that all sources of iu-
nmc growing out of this subject
.should lie discussed here, as they will
lie. readily presented to every one
who reflects upon the subject at all
C. Y. I).
Dreams.
Eminent philosophers declare that
there is no such thing as dreamless
sleep. They hold that it is the body
whicli sleeps, the soul that dreams;
that the former needs rest, and the
latter does not; that, while physically
fettered, the soul's natural expression
Is in dreams. The soul being immor
tal, incapable, independent of stay or
stop, must necessarily perpetually
dream. Because wo do not remem
ber our dreams is no proof that wc
do not have them. Persons on wak
ing may feel confident that they have
not dreamed, and yet during tlic day
some outward happening or passing
thought will liy forre of association
recall the dreams they had entirely
forgotten. It is questionable if
dreams ever go entirely out of iaein-
orv. They may not be recollected
for a week, a month, or a year, but
will nt some future tjmc, though in
so vague and uncertain a manner as
to lose their identity.
State News.
While on this subject, permit me
to say that the running of hogs nml
cattle in the streets of a city the size
of Albany is simply a disgrace, and
should he abolished.
A New Uomeii.
Stewart county has the menslvs
badly.
llawkiusville haa received 700 tons
of guano up to date.
Mr. Francis Weeks, living near
Roekmart, was found dead last week,
Americas is out of debt, and has
several thousand dollars in licr treas
ury.
The Sparta Times says Bishop
Pierce’s health is gradually improv
ing.
Congress has appropriated $100,-
000 for improving the harbor of Sa
vannah.
The Rome Library has been organ
ized, and starts out under favorable
auspices.
Gen. Robert II. Chilton,' formerly
Adjutant-General of Lee’s Army, died
last week at Columbus.
Bainbridge has been visited by sev
eral Northerners who express them
selves much pleased with the town.
$31,000 of the $63,000 city bonds of
Augusta lately ordered to be issued,
liavo been sold at par in advance of
the printing.
B. B. Bower, Esq., of Bainbridge,
on Monday, 17th inst., shot and pain
fully wounded Mr. G. B. Thompson,
of tlie same place.
Judge C. G. Lowe, of Warrenton,
while partially intoxicated recently,
drank carbolic acid by mistake for
whisky, and died from the effects.
The Bank of Rome ha- been sold to
Messrs. E. D. Frost, of New Orleans,
R. G. Huston, of Kentucky, aud C. G.
Samuels, of Rome, who will continue
the business in that city.
The National House Appropriation
Committee, on the 18th, agreed to al
low the State of Georgia seventy-two
thousand dollars interest on money
loaned the Federal Government du
ring the war of 1812.
The river and harbor appropria
tion bill gives the Coosa river, in this
State, forty-five thousand dollars,
Chattahoochee and Flint rivers twen
ty-two thousand dollars. So far, no
appropriation for the improvement
of the Ocmulgee and Oconee rivers
has been made.
On Tuesday night, Iltli inst., the
jail of Vienna, Dooly county, was
broken open by an armed body of
men, and two white men, one Sprad-
lcy, charged witli murder committed
in Florida, and one Wilson, charged
with a serious offense, were released.
Several of the mob have been captur
ed, but tlic prisoners are still at large-
The Sumter Republican states that
Mr. Robert Hodges of that conutv
was dangerously wounded by a ne-
;ro on his plantation, who struck Mr.
Hodges with an axe above the left
eye, slightly fracturing the skull, and
then cut him on the left side of the
neck in an attempt to cut his throat.
The negro made his escape. Mr.
Hodges at last accounts was doing
well.
Says the Hamiltou (Harris county)
Journal: “There resided, several
years ago, in this county, a family
which strangely illustrated the dan
ger to be apprehended from the in
termarriage of persons akin, both by
blood.and in their temperaments.—
The parents were cousins, and had
twelve children, six of whom were
mutes. Strange enough six of the
children were boys and six girls, and
three of each sex were mutes. Only
oue member of-the family is now liv
ing in the county, wc believe, and
slio is old and derrepid, being deaf,
dumb and blind.”
Augusta Chronicle and Constitu
tionalist: “Just before last Christ
mas a young man named Stephens, a
clerk at Wadlov, on the Central rail
road, was murdered at night and
found the next morning with his
throat cut. From a mcrcliant at Bar-
low we learn that a young man nam
ed Win. Hurst, living iu Scrivcn
county, while under the influence of
wliiskcv, said to an aunt of his; “A
fellow knocked Stephens down and 1
cut his tliront.” A gentleman in an
ndjoinitig room heard the remark
and communicated tlic fact to par
ties at Wadlcv. Hurst was immedi
ately arrested and on Monday was
carried to Wadleyand a preliminary
investigation commenced. It was to
have been concluded yester
day. Hurst’s aunt nml the gentle
man who heard the remark are wit
nesses to the statement. Stron
liopo is entertained that sufficient ev
idence will be obtained to convict
nil the guilty parties, whoever tlicy
may lie.”
The Washington correspondent of
the Macon Telegraph says a scheino
seems to lie on loot among the sralln-
wags and carpet-baggers who hang
around that place nml claim Georgia
as Ilieir home, to put un Gen. Robert
Toombs as an independent candidate
for Governor. They claim Hint he
will lie elected by a large majority.
They claim that he will carry (ho ne
gro vote ami a large majnrily ot the
white vote.
General New*.
Roston is to have an elevated * rail
road.
New Y'ork is taking step* towards
holding a world’* fair in that city in
1880.
• Nashville ha* more lawyer* to.the
population than any city In the
world.
The labor strikes In Liverpool have
about subsided, the laborers return
ing work at old prices.
The Tattersalla stable* in New
York wore recently burned, with six
ty-seven horses, valued at $72,000.
Prince Louis Napoleon is reported
lying dangerously ill at Chisel-
hurst, the effects of an irregular and
dissipated life.
A number of prominent citizens ot
New Orleans have made a statement
denying the reports that there is any
yellow fever now in that city.
A serious accident occurred on the
Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad
last week, by the breaking throng!
of a bridge. Three persons were in
stantly killed and ten wounded. •
A Methodist minister in Essex
°'i 11 Mass., was promised a salary
of $100. By digging clams and
making shoes he earned $200 last
year, and his flock withheld that
amount from his stipend.
The National Agricultural Conven
tion will meet in Nashville, Temi., on
the 25th of this month, and will eon'
tinue in session three days. All ag
ricultural organizations iu the United
States are entitled to representation.
Bruce, the colored Senator from
Mississippi, was called to the chair
of the Senate on tlio 14th iusL, and
presided over that body a portion of
the afternoon. That was the first
ime in the history of the government
that a colored man has occupied the
chair.
The American deputation to Mex
ico in their report on the trade pros
pects between the two countries say
they found everywhere only the most
cordial feelings of unbounded hospi
tality on the part of the Mexican
people, and an unanimous. desire for
closer commercial relations with the
United States.
A Dutchman named Fritz Stnbt-
inellcr was sentenced at Joliet, His,
for putting soap in the barrels ofthe
Rockford Brewing Co. A long time
the drinkers of the Co’e beer foamed
at the mouth and had other symptom*
of hydrophobia, which alarmed them
greatly and baffled medical skill, un
til Fritz confessed to soaping the bar
rels.
Mrs. Horn, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
died from trichinosis, cautad by eat
ing raw ham. Her daughter and
son-in-law are dangerously ill from
the same cause. Trichina are minute
worms which exist in hog-flesh, and
if it is eaten raw the worms sater the
human system, producing e dreadfui
disease called trichinosis. Cooking
the meat kills the worms and lenders
the meat harmless from this ca ass.
Mrs. Coles, daughter of Banator
Thurman, who is with her hnishsnd, *
naval officer, in Japan, ha* just been
entertained at the palace of the Gov
ernor. Three days afterward the
Governor accepted the invitation of
Mr. and Mrs. Coles for dinner—a
tiling never heard of before In Japan.
This extraordinary compliment, it is
said, was owing to the fact that when
Minister Yoshida went home from
Washington he said Mrs. Coles’s
father to be the next Emperor of the
United States.
The Chicago Times fills seventeen
of its columns with the report ofthe
Howard Association of New Or
leans for the year just closed, review-
thc labors of the organization
during the epidemic, giving the par
ticulars, the progress of the plague,
the number of people attacked and
Ilieir nationality, with tables show
ing the amount of money received
and the sources whence it was de
rived. The report is very Interesting,
and shows in admirable manner the
excellent discipline and organization
of this association. The total amount
of money received by tho association
was $383,429. Tho report states that
so liberal were the contributions that
the association was not only enabled
to discharge all its obligations, but
to make something like adequate
compensation to tho physicians who
had voluntarily given their services
in behalf of (lie afflicted city.
Itigli-niindcd People will be
Satisfied.
New York llertM, tnd.
Is it just, to say that Mr. Tildcn's
evidence—clear, decisive and une
quivocal—leaves him in a better po
sition than he was ih before it was
given. His denial of any kiiowlcd-
whatsoever of the cipher dispatelie
or of any offer, proposals or negotia
tions lo use any money to purchase
any returning hoards or votes until
tho occurrence of the Baltimore af-
fa'r, which he rebuked nml stamped
out, is as strong as language can
make it. His testimony is hi entire
harmony with bis card published in
tlic Herald of October 18tli last.—
Right-minded people will witli grat
ification and relief accept in good
faith Mr. Tildcn’s solemn assevera
tion that there never was one single
moment when lie entertained tin* idea
of obtaining the electoral vote by any
venal means, but Hint he determined
that if there was to be an nm-lion of
the chief magistracy of Ids country
lie would not be among the bidders.
Senator llavis, of West Virginia,
has declared for Thurmau as the
Democratic candidate for President.
Louisiana’s New Senator.
The Cincinnati Israelite, speaking
of tlio new Democratic Senator from
Louisiana, says:
-lie stands to-dav the foremost Jew
in our country, ami ids co-religionists
ran feel assured that not only will no
Ktain ever attarli to hint, but that
wherever are found purity of official
life, sterling integrity, and spotless
private character, there will also be
found the name of Hon. It. F. Jonas,
of Louisiana. As u matter of interest
to the ladies wo might add that Mr.
Jonas will lie in the council of the
nation his beautiful wife wil- be iu
ils social circles. Endowed by nature
with a superior intellect, she is as
■■harming in manner as she Is lovely
in form and feature. We congntu
late the Jewish people in the good
fortune of having two such worthy
representatives at the seat of govern
ment.”
Clay's Reply to Callioun.
Afatkamf Orators tad Or.tcrj,]
Proceeding to the Senate, my at
tention was at once arrested by a loud
voice (hat seemed like the music of
the spheres. It came from the lips of
a tall, well-formed man with a wide
mouth, a flashing eye, and a counte
nance that revealed every thought
within, iiis voice was one of extra
ordinary compass, melody and pow
er. [There was not one word of rant,
not one word of vociferation in the
very climax of his passion. He apoke
deliberately, and his outpouring of
denunciation was as slow and steady
as the tread of Nemesis. He gesticu
lated all over. As he spoke he stepped
backward and forward with effect,
and the nodding of his head—bung
on a long neck—Ms alms, hands, feet,
and . even his spectacles and blue
baudkerchief aided him in debate.—
U was Henry Clay engaged in a hand-
to-hand struggle with another giant
of (Me Senate, John C. Calhoun.
Clay had just taunted him with a
rumor that he had left the opposition
rank* and struck hands with- the ad
ministration. - He (Mr. Clay) “would
like to know what compromise had
been! made between the honorable
Senator from South Carolina and the
Kiiiilorhook for,’’(meaning President
Van Buren).
Calhoun replied: “No man onght
to bo more tender ou.thiLsubject of
coinproinise than the honorable Sen
ator from Kentucky'.” Then, alluding
to the compromises effected by Clay
in tills nullification crisis of 1830, be
added: “The Senator from Kentucky
was flat ou his back. I repeat iI, sir,
the Senator was flat ou his back, aud
couldn’t move. 1 wrote home to my
friends in South Carolina half a doz
en letters, saying that the Senator
from Kentucky ww fiat-on hf*- hack
aud couldn't move. I was his master-
on that occasion. He went to my
school. He learned of me.”
The two antagonists sat at the ex
treme ends of the semi-circular rows
of seats—Calhoun sitting iu the front
row, bu the President’s right, Clay iu
tho rear row, on his left. “The hon
orable Scifhtor from South Ciolina,”
said Clay, “says that I was Lai on tnv
hack, and that lie wrote home to his
friends in South Carolina staling that
I was fluton my back and couldn't
move! Admirable evidence this in a
court of law ! First make an asser
tion, then quote your own ’ To r- to
prove it! lint the honorable Senator
says he was niv muster ou that occa
sion !” As he said this the spenker ad
vanced down the aisle, directly in
froutof Calhoun,and, pointing',,'him
with his quivering lingers, said, in
tones in which were concentrated the
utmost scorn atnl defiance, “lie tuy
master! He my Hinder!?.ha—contin
ued in louder tones, with his linger
still pointed, and retreating back-
warti, while his manner indicated the
iuteusest- abhorrence, -lie my mas
ter!” ho ,a third time cried, raising
hi* voice to a still ltigher key, while
retreating backward to the very lob
by; then, suddenly changing his
voice from a trumpet peal to almost
a whisper, which was yet distinctly
audible in every uook and corner of
the Senate chamber, he added: “Sir,
I would-no town hitn for my slave.”
A hush- of breathless silence; then
followed a tempest of applause, which .i
for a while checked -aik-turthae de
bate, and came near causing an.ex
pulsion of the spectators from .the
g*»«ry.
Tho Negro in'the South.
*utor Lamar in Um North American Berio*.
“I will indulge inneither invective
nor denunciation.. J will simply lake
the late government of South Caroli
na or Louisiana, or of other stales
under similar rule,'and describe it iu
language that Mr. Blaine may him
self select. When he has told its his
tory I will askhimwhother-he would
willingly, .as a patriotic American,,
desire to see his own state, or any.
other of the free states, reduced to .
such a level? I am not afraid of his
answer, or that of any man Hvho has
bean bred trader, the traditions -of a
virtuous civilization. Then I. will
•ay to him: This, it is (rue, is a pain
ful result ;'but when you put the bal
let in the hands of aii-ignorant negro
majority aa a.means of education aud
progress you must he patient while
they- learn their lesson. Wc of the
couth have borne all this because" vi e
knew that the refiction must- conic.—'
It ha* come. Tto result* -which you
see to be (O bad the negro has-seen
also. He ha* come back’to us “with
the same bljad, impulse with which,
a few years ago he fled from us. He
may be as'ignoraiit a democrat as he
was an ignorant repubticartj 'but 1
vears mutt-yet pass before the ballot
will have educated hint fully into
self-reliant, t temperate citizenship;
and what we of the south have borne
our friends of the north Mofct bear •
with us until the ; negro ■ lias 1 become
what we both want: to make him-—
This is part of jhi*,educatipn. J* *
But all this while the ballot has been
educating thciiegro. 1 He has learned
that he waa a power between repub
lican and democrat, .ilcaa now learn-.
ing rapidly that at the south he isa
power between democrat and demo
crat, and in the late election he made
that power felt iu tlic rcsultrl would
have preferred a much less costly tu
ition ; hut, such as it is, it has been
paid for, audit Mr. Blaine, will pa
tiently (ruat his own theory he will
And the ballot in the hands of the ne
gro the best defense anil the best ed
ucator. But as the south has been pa
tient, so must lie he patient. As the
south has chafed ineffectually when
that vo(e Whs all against her white
people, so will lie chafe ineffectually
when it; is now largely for them. * *
When Mr- Blaine admits that disfran
chisement to impossible aud that tlio
ballot has been, in spite of all draw
backs, a, benefit to the negro, lie re
ally proves that, there is no organic
question affeoting the great national
interests, but simply the subordinate
question, how rapidly is the ballot
fitting the negro for the full enjoy
ment of his citizouship, and what in
fluence does his vote exercise tipqn
the supremacy of one party or the
other tit uational politics? This lat
ter may be an interesting question,
but not one whicli should disturb
either a sound national sentiment or
great national interests. I do not
iroposh? to discuss it. I am of opin-
on. that lo make the negro a free eii-
izoti it was necessary first to take him
from iiis master. Then it became
necessary to take him front tho party
whicli claimed his vote as absolutely
as Iiis master bad claimed Iiis labor.
The next step will be to take him as
a class from either party, and allow
him to difler aud divide just as white
men do. :
Tlio St. Louis Post-Dispatch says
that at a recent election in Wyoming
territory, in which women suffrage
prevails, a fellow running for Town
Clerk bribed cithteen female voters
with a single pound of chewing gum.
SELFr^kBXKOATtoN.—Not bail forau
infant of Illinois:
‘One day,” writes our correspon
dent, “Iwns compounding a simple
cough remedy for my little threo-
year-old, who had a severe cold. He
stood watching the process, aud ask
ed if it was “good.” On letting him
taste, he exclaimed: “It's awful good,
mamma. Let’s keep it all for Papa.
—Editor's Drawee, is Harper s
Magazinefor Hargis.