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A RINGING POEM.
General Butler and those of his politi
cal stamp must have got a great deal
more than they bargained for when Dr.
J. G. Holland read his poeui, written for
the occasion, at the reunion of the
“Army of the James.” We reproduce
it in full, that our readers in this section
may think the generous poet for his
withering rebuke of their oppressors and
the kindly sentiments he expresses for
the sutlering South :
TOKU »Y Dll. J. O. UOM.AND.
Who, in this fair metropolis
Where life sweep# on In mighty tide#.
Or into pleasant home# subside#.
Or eddies through a hall like tins.
Can feel the noises of hla heart
Throb with the Joy of being one
Still breathing underneath the eon.
And of the waves a vital part,
Nor turn with tender thoughts to those
Who, weary of the rough highway,
Or smitten in the deadly fray.
Lay down to sleep, and never rose!
Surely not we who gather here
From toil’s and pleasure's round and range,
To breathe, in social interchange.
The garnered memories of a year!
We praise their deeds, we bless their names,
Who bravely fought and nobly fell;
And love and pride remember well
The vanished Army of the James.
They sleep, hut only for a night!
The earth was groaning when tljoy died.
The trumpet sounding far and wide.
And ail the spheres were dim with blight.
So, when the swift Arctiangd’scall—
Tlie quaking earth the reeling stars—
Shall wake them, healed of all their scars,
To smoke tliut hangs its ghostly pall
O’er nil things, it will only secin
That they have slept aiming their steeds.
And risen to War’s familiar deeds
From rest so deep it could not dream.
They sleep in peace ! The Summer bells
That gather perfume from their dust.
The WlnterVmow, the Autumn's rust,
And all love's lavished immortelles,
Arc things a# far beyond their bred
As all uiirstrifu# of haud and head.
As all our griefs above the dead,
And ait the travail of our ueed.
They sleep in*peace ! Whatever strife
May chafe the land for which they fought,
Kach for himself found wh it he sought—
Fence, at the purchase of his life ;—
Payment for tdood In happy rest;
Guerdon in gratitude for pain ;
For life’s great loss, the priceless gain
Of name and deed forever blest!
No tears for them ! The heart is cold
That does not thrill with joy to think
That they who bravely leaped the brink
Of Battle’s fiery chasm, and sold
Their lives for liberty’s increase.
Found in the awful holocaust
That which the living land bad lost,—
The boon of rest—the balm of peace !
No tears for them who bore the proof
Of heroes, in their foemeu's seal
Of blazing shaft, and blunted steel.
And tramping charger's heedless hoof I
Free from the duty of a breath,
From senses of woe and sense of wrong.
They sleep, os wheels the world along,
In the sweet dignity of death I
No tears for them ? Tears, then, for whom
Tears for ourselves, whose little lives—
Bound to onr children and our wives—
Or fastened to some precious tomb
Where sleeps an idol; baser still.
Tied to our lucre And our lust.
Betray each hour the sacred trust
Left us by buroea u> fulfill I
Tears for the thieves who rob the dead.
In robbing those their death bereft.
And waste the gold tliut love haa left
By gambling with the nation’s bread I
Tears for the demagogues who trade
In feuds of party and of rare.
And seek for plunder and for place
In strifes their owu vile hands have made t
Tears Tor the Rings of perjured souls '
That grind the rich and poor alike.
And steal the grist from which they strike,
For those they serve, the stingy tolls !
Tears for the realm that blindly shelves
Its inun of noblost brain and brawn,
Aud crowds its councils with the spawns
Of little men who chooso themselves!
Tears for the men who basely hold
The nation to its paper lies.
Against the wisdom of the wise.
And shame the eagles on their gold!
Tears for the land that builds of rags
Its edifice of power and wealth.
And holds the happiness and health
Of sovereign States in carpet-bags I
Ay, tears for those who, shred and shorn—
Not blameless, bnt onr brothers still
In common iot and Uod'a good will—
Are bloediug, fainting, tossed and torn
By jarring policies and fends-
Of race with race, till fain to fly
From their ancestral homes, or dio
In silent, hopeless multitudes !
Tears for the bootless sacrifice
Wrought by the ball and bayonet I
Tears that the best of ns forget
That we are purchased with a price
That they who perished at our side
Are void of victory, till we
A just and generous rule decree,
And live as nobly as they died 1
O brothers of the gun and glavo 1
4) living Army of the James I
•How shall we answer to the claims
Of the beloved aud buried brave t
By pledging now onr good light hand.
By pledging now onr loyal word
That, scifisn lust to love deferred.
And gain to Ood the native land.
We here declare eternal strife.
Ay—battle to the hilt—with those
Who traffic in the nation’s woes.
And live upon the nation’s life.
O Peace— In shame and banishmeut 1
O Industry—with folded arms t
■O Lena of Beauty from whose charms
Uave fled the graces of content—
There is no cure for fend and schism
In law that is not bom of lore,
•Or pa ty strifes that rise above
The holy claims of patriotism.
-O stately shades of martyred men 1
Who mark our petty ends aud aims.
Warm uswith your diviner flames.
And save your Country once again I
Decline or the Duello.
TUE JAMES BOYS.
W IliL.' SEAFORD’S FORTUNE.
A Notbern contemporary regards the' Their Mother Tells of Their Ken
decadence of the duel at the South as an
encouraging indication that Southern
men “ feci that they have work to do, and
haven’t any time for fooling.” It is to
be hoped, however, that it is from a
higher motive than merely having ’’work
to do" that duelling, which is inhuman,
absurd, and wicked, is less the fashion in
the South now than formerly. What
ever sentiment remains to support it is,
of coarse, the result of teaching.
As to the abstract merits of the ques
tion there is no difference of opinion
worth mentioning between Northern and
Southern people. All agree that the
duel is opposed to the precepts of moral
ity, of common sense, of humanity, and
of justice. Yet, Btrange enough, the
custom was once well nigh universal
among both heathen and Christian na
tions. Jurists and churchmen upheld it,
and monarchs were its patrons and regu
lators. Even now it prevails all over
Europe, in the most enlightened nations,
and the Emperor of Germany, himself
a professed Christian man, has not felt
tacky Parentage, the Family
Wrongs and the Bandits’
Flight to Mexico.
I).
the
Old’Dave Barrett, rare old
prince of good mesa-mate* i.i
men, rolling his quid like a saw t morsel
under his tongue, was “yarning it” in the
r , Islington, (Mo.,) Caucasian.] forecastle of the whaler Neptune. Dave
*‘ a : |_ 1 , uvs d*y tnormng ■» l-jtogg was a sailor, every inch. His rough face,
buzzing with the newsthat Mrs. Zer-1 rolling gait and delicious sea tongue,
ralda bamuel the mother of the dlustn- we » a 11 of the sea-salty! Brave old
ous outlaws, had arrived in town with 10ver! When ^ ^ ^ is openedi
her daughter, and w as slopping at the I j bjd he good deeds are read, may the
City Hotel. Excited rumors flew on good overbalance the evil in his account,
every breeze, that the terrible sons were I tba t be enter the “sailors’ sung ha-
hovenng near bent on the abduction or ve n,” there to ride at anchor through the
destruction of three or four well known i on!ri eternal dav
the i “Come about me, mates,” he said, “for
I’mpf n mind to tell you how WilL Sea-
I knowed him
citizens, who had recently gone into
detective and Jonathan \V ise business on
a large scale. The colored population | fordfoundhte fortune
discussed the subject in awful whispers; 1
the pavements opposite the hotel became,
well, mates—no man better, and he were
.. , - , a man and a mess-mate to the very back-
all at once, a highly interesting and pop- bonc It would bave don(j J ood t0
l*! ar i oafing -P/! ce \. Ab° ut J ° clock in I ^ tbat f ace on deck, when they piped
f!*r a11 baads 111011 in a slorm - It always did
for the editor of the Caucasian and an- me good to see him out there on the
nounced that the ladies who were the in- weather ear-ring, working away as cheer-
lh wtih» g llntrorin^ I fuU y “ if b « had solid ground beneath
l ,5, wSL t f !i bfee ^. th ? r . tbaa a foot-rope, while
Executive Department News.
Commissioned—Charles Sclden, of
Providence, Rhode Island, commissioner
of deeds for the state of Georgia in that
state.
Wra. A. Poe, notary public l,71Gth
•district. Bibb county.
Jordan F. Brooks, first lieutenant and
Adjutant of the First Volunteer Regiment
of Georgia, vice Henry E. Backus pro
moted to lie major.
A. P. Adams, first lieutenant, and J.
W. Luthrop, Jr., second lieutenant of
the Johnston Light Infantry, of Savan-
aah.
Gov. Smith went to Columbus yester
day, by way of Macon, and will address
the people at Cuthbert next Friday.
Covington.—Dr. J. H. Weaver had
his hand badly crushed by a saw mill on
Thursday. An ancient stable was
burned on last Wednesday, Coving
ton supports three flourishiug 6team cot
ton gins and they are always busy.—Star.
Cauteksvillb.—Bartow carried off
her share of premiums at the late state
fair. Several Cartersville men had
their pockets picked and all their person
al effects abstracted, while in Atlanta.
The friends of Dr, Felton hoist his
banners on housetops and spread them
over the streets. Miss Ella Grey, of
Adairsville, died of typhoid-pneumonia
on the morning of the 27th.—Standard
and Express.
himself strong enough to abolish it in
his army, but lias lately prescribed rules
tending to regulate and limit it. 1*2 is
not therefore just to speak of the duel
as a barbaric custom peculiar to the
South. The first duel that ever took place
in the United States was in the Nortlr.
The “code of honor” was at one time
in full force in New York and New Jer
sey. Every one knows that General
Hamilton, of New York, was killed in a
duel with Colonel Burr, of New York,
in 1804, the latter being Vice-President,
and the former the great leader of the
opposition. Five shots were exchanged
between Dewitt Clinton, of New York,
and John Swartwont in 1802, and a chal
lenge passed between Mr. Clinton and
General Dayton, of New Jersey, in 1802.
Formerly duels were very common in
the United States navy, and valuable
lives were lost. In the duel between
Barron and Decatur the later was killed,
and Barron severely wounded. It is re
lated of Richard Somers, who perished
in the Intrepid, and who is said to have
been a mild man, that he fought three
duels in one day. In 1830 President
Jamison caused the names of four offi
cers to be struck from the navy roll be
cause they had been engaged in a duel.
Yet Jackson himself had been engaged
in a duel and killed bis antagonist. And
of so little practical value was liis action
in regard to the navy officers referred to
that one single ship, the Falmouth, in
1834, had three officers on board who
had killed men in duels, one of whom,
Licutcnat Ross, of the Marines, had,
horrible to relate, killed three men.
Still tlic practice lias been entirely sup
pressed in the navy. Great reforms like
this cannot be accomplished in a day,
biit by judicious and persistent efforts
every cause whicli lias reason and hu
manity on its side will triumph in the
end. Slavery was once universal, yet
it required centuries to extinguish it, the
end came at last, and it plight have come
long before, and might have peacefully,
anu with the voluntary consent of the
v slaveholders, but for the offensive and
[ dictatorial interference of outsiders.
At the same time it must be said of
duelling, as it could not be said of slave
ry, that not a dozen men in any civilized
nation can be found to defend it in the
ory. Scripture was often appedled to
for the sanction of slavery, but no one
ever appealed to Scripture in support of
duelling. “Tliou slialt not kill,” sliu^
out reference to the inspired records.
Tlic plea of utility advanced in behalf
of Slavery would not be pretended in be
half of duelling. tVho ot what was
ever benefited by it? Where is the com
mon sense or justice of the prac
tice? Tlic man who is in the right is
as often killed as the wrong man. Our
attention has been called to this subject
y a fact mentioned by tlic New Orleans
_ icayunc that ex-Governor Herbert, of
Louisiana, regarding himself grossly in
sulted, his honor assailed, and his perso
nal integrity questioned, by a recent ed
itorial in tlie New York World, had cn
gaged a compatriot to hear a hostile
message to Mr. Marble, but before send
ing it bethought him to consult Roger
A. Pryor, who once fought a duel in \ ir-
f inia, now a lawyer in New York city.
“he Picayune thus reports the ensuing
conversation:
“Now, Governor,” said Mr. Piyor,
‘of course this would be in the Soutli
ample ground for tlic resort suggested
but have you any idea of the consequen
ces which would flow from it here ?
“No," replied the Governor, with sim
plicity, and some anxiety. “Then I will
tell you,” continued Pryor. “In two
hours after sending such a message you
would be lodged "in Ludlow street jail,
a veiy uncomfortable place for a gentle
man of your taste and habits. There,
too, you would have to remain several
days until your friends could get some
$50,000 bail; next you would be sent be
fore a grand jury, which would find a true
bill against you ; and finally you would
be sent before a court and a petit jury,
with the chances all against you, to say
nothing of very heavy law fees.” The
Governor’s face grew visibly longer and
his mustaches stiftcr at this appalling
picture. At last he gasped out the in
quiry, “Is there no mode then of getting
satisfaction, apology, or any sort of rep
aration tor gross, personal insults offered
here to a gentleman ? “Oh yes," replied
Pryor, the counsellor of New York,
“this is a good case for an action for
libel.” “But what reparation would that
give me ?" asked the indignant Creole.
“Well,” drawled out the ex-Virginian,
“I think I could promise you a verdict
of damages to an amount from five cents
to five thousand dollars. Even if for the
small amount it would carry costs.”
This is a sensible and practical view
of the subject as far as New York is con
cerned. It is also applicable to our own
State. The “code of honor” was form
erly recognized here, yet to-day a resort
to tlie duello would be as unsafe in
Maryland as New York. No people.
North or South, have ever shown them
selves braver, where courage was de
manded in the performance of duty, than
the people of Maryland. The same
moral and religious influences derived
from our own guides of public opinion,
not from outsiders, which have produced
this reform in Maryland, may be relied
upon to work the same in time in other
Southern States. Personal courage has
ever been regarded in the South as an
indespensible virtue to man, hut it is a
delusive sophistry and a destructive curse
to make the duel a test of courage, or to
hold that this quality was given tq man
to qualify him for personal encounters
like those of game cocks, instead of to
repel and counteract unavoidable dan
gers and privations.—Baltimore Sun.
heart between • our teeth, we promptly
obeyed the summons. The door of the
reception room opened; Capt. Poole
spoke the brief words of introduction,
the sea boiled below, and the great roll
ers leaped up—eager to tear him from
his hold. He was as handsome a young
- . , , lc i introduction, cbap as you would wish to see, with
and we found ourself in the presence of | bla< T k cu ?, ing hairj black eycs> G i l J eks as
the mother and step-sister of Missouri’s
dread raiders. Mrs. bamuel is a tall,
dignified lady, of about forty-eight years;
graceful iu carriage and gesture; calm
and quiet in demeanor, with a ripple of
fire now and then breaking through the
placid surface; and of far more than or
dinary intelligence and culture. She
converses well, using faultlessly pure
English. She wore a plain brown calico,
neatly made
containing the likeness of
She was a Miss Cole, of Wofferd county,. grounds> and wer e coming home full to
kcntuckj . Robert James, her hr»t lius-1 tbe batcbeg . and ^ on tbe wa ,, back wti
I sto PP eti at Honolulu for sea stores.
rosy as a girl’s, and mighty muscles!
often thought he had no right at sea, and
was born to better things; but he loved
it. Mates, when you see a smile on a
man’s face in hours of danger, then
make up your minds that you’ve got a
good man to stand by you when danger
threatens.
“Our old man was a good captain.
’ laint oftcn > ,ouunde?a bm <* one
7 U n a » oldband breast P ln than Jack Venner, of the old Arethusa.
Webad **** two y«“ 0Q . tbG " d ' ! ‘ lin S
boys was a native of Logan county, w £T n tbe last load bad come ou board
Kentucky, and graduatedat Georgetown' - - '
College. He died, an earnest, faithful
Christian, some years before the war;
and his widow afterward married Mr.
Samuel. She has a married daughter
now teaching in the High School at
Sherman, Texas; and it was to this in
stitution that she was taking the pale and
the old man went ashore in his gig, and
when he came back he had a passenger
in the stern sheets, the neatest littls clip
per these eyes ever see—his darter—she
were a beauty, boys! We sailors may
be rough and ready but we love the
name of woman or we are no true sailors.
, , • i , - - ,i Will Seaford was pulling the stroke oar
slender young girl who accompanied in the captin » s gi £ and ° his eyes were
her. Some lltuc mutual surprise was ex-1 « xed nnon her face in ft mute, ndnrincr
cred with the stuff from the deck. The
captain came to me with a glass in his
hand.
“ ‘Dave,’ he said, his rough lips quiv-
eriug, ‘go aloft and look." If they are
’one I shall never forgive myself, lor
iiad I leen attending to my duty this
could uever have happened.’
“I took the glass and ran up into the
foretop Three times I changed the
elevation of the glass, and swept the
sea. As I began the fourth round I
saw a black spot tossing on the waves,
four or five miles away, just off the lee
bow, and hailed the deck. The order
was given and we headed for the black
spot. Nearer and nearer wc came, and
I could see that it was one of the spare
topmasts which we kept stowed on deck,
with something on it. Nearer yet! At
least one human being was clinging to that
spar, and as I looked a hand was lifted
and waved in the air. On we went. The
ship seemed to creep, and yet she was
going ten knots. Ten minutes later wc
backed our topsails and a boat went
down from the davits, and what a cheer
went up when Will Seaford and Milly
Venner were found clinging to the spar.
He had lashed her firmly to it with a
rope which he grasped as he went over
board after her, and all through that
weary night he had cheered her with
words of comfort, until he saw the Arc
tium bearing down under sail.
“Milly was sent to her berth, but lie
was none the worse for it. That night
he had a long talk with the old man in
the cabin, and the captain came on deck
with him next morning and piped all
hands to muster.
“ ‘My men,’ he said. ‘I have to intro
duce to you Mr. Willis Seaton, the son
of the owner of this craft, who has
shipped himself under false colors. Your
messmate, Will Seaford, is no more.’
“How we cheered him and whata time
of shaking hands wo had. He had ship
ped for the love of adventure, and by do
ing it had found his fortune. Of course
he married Milly, for what was sheer
impudence ’.n a foremast. Jack was very
gratifying in Willis Seaton—the son of
he richest man in New Bedford. He’d
have give me a ship long ago only I ain’
fool enough to take it. ‘ Eight bells!
Time to turn in.”
pressed when we met, each expected to
see a decidedly rougher individual. Mrs.
fixed upon her face in a mute,’ adoring I
way, and I knowed his billet had come. It
was rough in a foremast Jack to think of
THE
BUREAU OF
TURE.
AGRICUL-
MURDER.
An other Chapter in the Volume ot
Crime.
On the Columbus road, seven miles from
Bowdou and four mile* east of tbe Alabama
line, in the vicinity of Black Jack mountain,
stands a plain, one-room frame building,
which, for some lime past, has been occu
pied by Henry M. Smith as a country store.
iVitbiu this building was perpetrated, on
Thursday last, a deed of blood, which, In
the light ot the circumstances, will stand
forth prominently on the criminal records of
the country.
TUB DISCOVERT.
Early on the morning of that day, ono
Doc. Stewart, in passing by the store, was
attracted by the groans of some one inside.
Inquiring what was the matter, and receiv
ing no answer, he became alarmed and im
mediately notified-Smith's brother of,the cir
cumstance. They proceeded to the store,
and finding the door secu cly fastened,
effected an entrance by prizing open a win
dow shutter, when a sig.it met their gaze
which was calculated to make the 6touteat
heart tremble. Right before them, on a bed,
ghastly visaged and covered with gore, lay
Mr. Smith in wbat they supposed to be the
last agonies of death; his right ear had
been cleft in twain, a deep indentation
marked his skull ana, totally unconscious,
the life blood was oozing from his mouth
and nostrils. The floor and walls were
bespattered and the bed saturated with the
crimson dye, and on the floor beside the
bed Lty an axe—the instrument with which
the blow had been inflicted.
»• the arrest.
When the men bad recovered In a measure
from their amazement, they sent a messen
ger for Dr. L. J. -Aderhold, of Bowdou,
aroused the whole settlement, and took im
mediate steps to discover the perpetrator of
the deed. General suspicion fell upon a
youth named Elijah Yarbrough, who had
beeu hanging around the neighborhood for
a few days previous, in. the company of dis
reputable characters, and whose actions had
excited distrust. Men were, therefore, sent
out in sear, h of Yarbrough, and by means
of the hob-uailed shoes winch he wore they
tracked hitn to Latnar, Ala., a distance o'f
twelve miles, where he was arrested in the
house of his graud-mother, ou the same
morning., He made no resistance, but re
turned peaceably with ills captors to Laurel
Hill. . A preliminary trial was held before a
justice of the peace ou Friday, when Yar
brough being sworn, made in substance the
following ;
CONFESSION OF THE DEED
He stated that he had been intimate with
a woman named Indiana Mitchell, who lived
about four miles from Smith’s on the state
line; that he was at her house on the Sunday
previous, when she persuaded him by prom
ises and entreaties, to commit the deed; that
she told him she was considerably in debt
Samuel gave us a thrilling acooua * ol falling head over ears in love with a girl. . „
tlie adventures and sufferings of herself I ,: k - taat _ th f5 , j . t , ? h „ „ „ to Smith, and did not know how she would
and family during the war, and good done it> gI ° se ^ m “ d ^ like ^is looks. Letter from New ° r,eans Cotton Ex- be able to pay him; that she wanted him
, - -. , , .. done it She seemed to like his looks,
humoredly narrated many laughable in- took andwben we ^ ^ . whip . dowl J
>■“ to Wterup tteside, Will-V-
change to Commissioner Janes.
boys came under ihe country’s ban.
At the commencement of the war,
Frank joined General Price. Not long
afterward, some depredations were com
mitted by gucrrilllas, in the neighbor
hood of their home, near Kearney, in
Clay county. A company of Federal
troops came out and scoured the country.
to help her into it, and tell what to do.
“Her uncle had been United States
Consul at Honolulu, and was going
home in a month or so, and she wanted
New Orleans Cotton Exchange, )
New Orleans, Oct. 26, 1874.
hurt, but not killed, and that if ho (Yar
brough) would contrive to 6tay all uight
with S nith, and strike him on the' head
when he was asleep, with an axe which could
be found beneath the bed, and
would get her from the store
n't.... p TnnA fnaim/MiVinw nf I a calico dress, a pair of shoes and some to-
• V/.tJT ilwf 1 bacco. she would in return go over to Ala-
yriculture, Atlanta, Georgia. DEAR| baina and jj ve w j tb blm _ That in further-
saaea toward l 5Sir—Your favor of the 22d inst., tn-lance of the plot, Yarbrough and the woman
gal to the sea closing department circular No. 6, and went to Smith’s on Sunday night, but for
she’d sit on I requesting copies of our city market re-1 some reason, did not accomplish their ub-
to go back with her father. Agricullure l
We sailed next day and headed toward | Sir—Your favor of the 22d inst., in-
the cape, and 1 never see a
nt ATilk* All rlovr lonrr
aud^'iua^e'ldm'aTielples^inva^d 11 ^ 0 ^ tb ® ** Dol P hi " s "P 0 ^ 11 ^ and s "’ ord - vio °? circulars. I there”, and invited him to stay all night,
is to-day. Liato Je^e, then onlvfifteen
years old was seized in the field pleased her. And Will tied to watch
he was at work, a rope put around his I ker ^ -whether steering his trick at the
neck, and instant death threatened, to I w beel or working iu the tops, until
make him confess things of which he [ boned him about £
things
had never even heard. Aud, in a short
time afterward, Mrs. Samuel herself
was taken from a 6ick bed, and con-
“I’ve knowed you now nigh onto two
years, Will Seaford,” I says, “and I did 1873,1,860,559 against 1,495,480, or 16 per
differences between your statement of I readily accepted, and they went tp bed.
acreage under cultivation in cotton for j Just before day Smith arose, struck a light,
the state of Georgia and the published [ and returned to bed and to sleep; about half
reports of the Washington bureau, your anbourafterward Yarbroughgotup,dressed
figures for 1874 standing 1 603 005Rf hlmself > and ^htng up the axe, struck
„S° res i° r tor Smitht to blows in rapid succession with its
a S? mst ^ u > orcau . s 1 * 3 9 d l®«3 aud lor lnoll, upon the side of the head, knocking
im insensible. He then took Smith’s sil-
slraed to a fihllv orison cell iirstin Lib' not know 3™ was acusscd fool until cent, ahead of the bureau in 1874, and ver watih, a new hat, ^t yards of calico;
7i • & £ fHis blessed moment. What d’ye look at 20 per cent this worse thurf the bureau and some tobacco, repaired, to the place
erty, then in Fluttsburg, and finally m , „ a ,- u ,- J •- 1 - - • r. ...
St. Joe. Jessie soon escaped and joined I ~ ’
, placo
in 1873. This is an important point, 1 where the women were in waiting, gave tho
A ’fore the mast Jack-a able seaman | from its special bearing upon the question |
, advised to leave the state, which he did; but
before he left he states that the women
tliey^became a tefrdft tlrnir fow wher- U best-tha't dares to Took a"t the” c'aptin’s | of average production per acre,
they became a terror to them toes wner | t iQ way, dught to be kicked lam aware, from the manner in which
mlicu I . a * I Hw. • n *AfAtnnnto oro mnrjn im ato tlmt
the brush by Fletcher loyalists, and
from that time on their history is the
Quantrell and Bill Anderson way, Will, only I love you and don’t saniy emer ii
suited them- and thev narticinated ini want to see you making a fool of yer- tions, out aid t* V uiu . u W i, n C/ ,
sunea inem, ana iney parucipaica • L/.u ■ publisn a statement, susceptible of being he set o ut for his grandmother s. 1-le denied
many of the most bloody frays of those • . , . , ]d D ,, Used on actual facts, that could bo so ^ had any other object than to ple-.se the
fierce chieftains. Wlicu they went home .Mupp'ose i am moot, oia ua,ve,ne . . . ■ ■ I woman: that Smith and he was on the best
after the surrender, they were driven to says, ‘or sucli an old muttonhead as you imouto tUe way. number of of teru1 ®’ and the nl S ht hud been , passed
- - - - never would have found me out. So you A recent puuucauon oi tue numoer oi agTeeab iy.
don’t think Pm good enough to look at cotton nulls, etc., tn the southern states. Such is the substance of Yarborough’s
* - - - 1 — 1 xr "’” ' weekly journal confession of the shocking tragedy. Upon
inan^ioi i gimni. 1,1.. n, kt. statement, the women,
ither, were arrested as
corroborative evidence
ist them they were dis-
versauon, several nines repeated: i -- —j. —; r~ - ~—r I .„™ rQ i mnntlia lnwr r-r>ntnin«',>nlvtliirtv-1 ouosequently, some new dishes
mother ever bad better sons; more affec- that has dipped his hand in a 8lus h swindles more than pro found In MitcheU’s houae, the presence
tinmtp obedient nnd dutiful” And I bucket.’ , six mills, but i,iujspinaies more inan 0 j w hi cb C ould not be satisfactorily accoun-
sli^solenuilv declared that every story “He laughed, and went on with his the Chronicle’s This journal claims Led for, and the-whole family were, there-
-- - - - - jes- ing with him by the lee rail,
Mexico, aud have been for months. ... . .. ,
sie was married on.the 27th of lost April] * iead mighty close tom 1
to Miss Zerelda Minims, of Kansas City, 11 tell you, biff U am^ m^n
a niece and name-sake of Mrs.. Samuel, “ "*' > “*
and a member of Rev. Francis J. Boggs’
church. Jesse started to Mexico a few
days after his wedding, and his bride
TUB VICTIM.
Dr. Aderhold arrived on the scene abont
with her al ^T 0 ® 1 ® f. t : nn 0 o n id hp I ■ L,r - -nuernoia amvea on tne scene aooat
- were mad, Your figures ^ consumption could be ten G , clock on Thur6day morning, and found
me to peach made more interesting to the trade gen-1 . , .... . ' , . >>
on a mess mate, no matter what he erally by adding the number of lpoms, 0 .
does, and I went forrard, thinkin’ what (mirage size of yarns and quantity.of j of. Mr. Smith dearly^ indicated that he had
a fearful 1 keel-hauling Will would git J K ”
[ if the old man should come on deck.
cotton used within a given period—say been 6truck twice by the pole of an axe,
in pounds. Such a statement, if made to | across the right earand temporal region,the
left Keruey Station, Clay county, to fol-1 an d I felt some one brush by me, and
low him to the land of the Montezumas | there was the old man close beside
j cover the colter, year ,from. September
on tbe lltli of May. Frank met them j them. The gal _
somewhere on the ronte, and the whole | aa d Will drawed n
a little scream
u mill# ovApoui. ■ ;—.
up and looked jison.
lat, to August ,31st, inclusive,) would af
ford an interesting and valuable compare
uartv'were toaetheVaJ"Galveston when I ,ibe while the captain opened his I A- department similar to yours, con ...
& back to theK mother and va- mouth and kinder swore a little ! And, ducted with the single view of obtaining [ fol remedies,jmd reaction set in on Satur-
places and the bony structure of the inter
nal ear entirely broken down. The patient
was unconscious, and bis condition almost
hopeless, owing to the nature of tho wound;
but Dr. Aderhold skillfully applied the need-
tliey wrote back to their mother and ya- mouth anqKmaerOTore:a uuie mq, 1^^publishing strictly accurate figures”! day night. Cerebro spinal meningetis en-
nous friends. Captain, Poole Here m-1 whenold manJen by showing the production and manufactur- Cowever, andMr^mithsanErop^y
. all the wind for his ingresources of the state, m much to be g®™ er d [ / redj baring wholly u^
before they sailed for a Mexican port, I breath, and made things smell of Sld -1 Ee been paked with k IS* 01181101111116 time ^ e derived hisiu-
uhwK^ever^shac^one Ktter°havin^bmjn “ ‘Go below,’he said, shaking his fist I view to supplying this want; but they I Tbe decea8ed was about forty yeara old.
Ilk^ almost on tiie ^Sav of under’VYiU’s nose. ‘I’ll teach' you to deem either tq have been, imperfectly L ^ by occup ation, but kept a small
written in Mexico mtuostqa n J[ nn Uneak un on deck in this way, you—I framed or have been allowed to become a I country ,6tore for the convenience of his
the bus robbeiy at NortliLexington. I „ P I dead letter on the statute books. {neighbors. He is described as having been
, | It is not improbable that your example an intelligent, thrifty, peaceable, and
. J .f 1 mav aid materially in demonstrating the | Christian map, much esteemed by all who
under the names of her sons, and that cause to repent, Captain V enner, said f • mDort once of the iusormation you knew him. At times, however, he was sub-
• ' ‘ of mental aberration, which ren-
dangerous to his associates. For
this reason he ~ has been divorced from two
was
and
the newspapers
qurrency to slanderous reports
•es 01 ner sous, anu mat cause to repent,, wpuua y autci, »aiu , : mDortance the iusormation you Kuew n,m - J
of the land give constant Will, coolly. ‘I was going to speak to farni8 j®i2d a general system of stateag- leet *®5 te of
iderous reports of deeds] you to-morrow,and tell you that I loved | K „r«fn» result thernfrnm—tlm I d u= re ? L d ?
they couldn’t be in Pennsylvania, Iowa, could not speak, but just stood and
Missouri, Arkansas,and Texas,and perpe- glared at tbe boy as if he would eat him.
trate a score of various deviltries, all in The eool impudence of the whole thing
one day or week. “ And,” she added, drove him half mad, and he conld only
~ inthnrities ever catcli I noint toward the forecastle.
said
until
then I will explain.
Macon.—There is a complaint on ac
count of scarcity of amusements.
Democratic ward meetings are very fre
quent, and hot discussions are becoming
common.—Siar K
,_ounger boys,
found entirely different individuals; for, we run into port,
say what the world may, my sons are 11 ’
1 wish you, sir,
say wbat
gentlemen!
But
to] “Crash! A squall was on us. The
know, that they are not in this country', I sticks came rattling down about our ears,
haven’t been for months, and may never and a great sea swept the deck. Every
be again. All claiming to be them are man> even the lookout, had been so,busy
imposters.”. And we are satisfied she I wa tching the muss that they did not see
spoke the truth. The concurrent testi-1 tbe squall creeping up, and it took us by
mouy of Capt. Poole, Major John Ld- [ sarpr js e . The old man grabbed a life
wards, and others who know them well, ij ne an d roared to the man at the wheel
given tojis privately, conclusively estab- to her go before the wind, and we
lishes the oftrepeated assertion of their 1 r j g hted, coming up out of the foam with
mother—“the James boys are in Mex-1 c jean swept decks. But as we looked,
0.” * neither WilL Seaford nor Milly were any-
Now, who are the masked horsemen 1 -^-here to be seen. The terrible sea which
of North Lexington and Carroll woods? bad come aboard had swept them away,
That’s a question that we hope to have and be jay in boiling water, making little
answered, a problem we hope to have 1 -way, with the weight of the top, hamper
solved, under Governor Hardin’s adinin-1 ba nging over the mizzeni saiL
istration. | “Captain Yenner was a man and a
sailor, and his first thought was to cut
Griffin.—The News appeals tq Cap] away the dragging wreck and save all
tain Foreacre and exhorts him by all the lives he could. Then, for nearly
that he holds dear to stop the half an hour, we ran before the squall;
“infernal and continuous blowing of wh-n it ceased as suddenly as it had be-
stcam engines in and around Gnffin” ] gun, and we had ^beaten up towards tbe
* ‘Lasses-stretellings are tlie coming I spot vhere Will fceaford and Milly were
amusement—-Neus^
lost A11 night long we cruised 4ibout,
sounding a fog-horn, firing guns and then
striving for in our combination of cotton
exchanges, which, under the title of the
tob ucbdereb.
Yarbrough, the principal actor in the hor-
national cotton excha ge,” comprises | rible scene, is about eighteen years of age,
all the principal cotton markets in the H*?®* a * eet ^gh, of slender
United Stutesfand it is, indeed, the only build, florid complexion, with light bair and
way to prevent those violent fluctuations I pQggggajpg; be ; 3 intelligent, and - destitute
in prices, based upon causeless iumors, I ^ characteristic physiognomy usually
while crops are being marketed, which, found in cut-throat rillisns. It would seem
however beneficial to speculators, are that his imfamy has been brought about
generally prejudicial to the interests of | more by bad training and evil association
the agricultural classes. I am your most than by natural propensities. About two
nluidfmt wmnt H G Hester months ago he lett Atlanta, becoming fn-
obedient servant a. u. rtESTER, volved> it u 6aid> { a a brofi with a negro—
Secy New Orleans Cotton Exchange. | a nd went to Lamar. He had been in tha
• • • neighborhood of the tragedy but four or
Thomson.—A stray vagabond has fi ve days,
created an unusual excitement in Thom- tub tempter.
son. A protracted meeting of much Tbe people around Laurel HiU and in the
intprrxtt is nroffressmET at the Methodist vicinity of Smith’s store believe Yarbrough’*
interest is pro^^mg at tue meinoaiai. confeg | ion u true< ud consequently that
church.— The city fathers are growin I the women are the more culpable parties,
fierce and executing judgments on all jj Qt j 8 hard to reconcile his statement
evil doers.—Journal. I w ith >he truth, where the appearance and
mtr- t-ffiKSTu.K’!
William Sasser at _ Arlington on Friday I abou t tbirty-five, has a sallow complexion,
nignt. It is feared that Sasser will die. j an angainly figure, features bordering upon
A train on the Southwestern railroad | ugliness, slatternly habits, and notoriously
ran off near Americus last Saturday, and | lacking in virtue. The entire family bear a
came near killing the engineer. Mrs. disrepu able name in the settlement, and it
J M Brooks died on Thursday. The does not seem probable that a youth like
L'L w weekly meeting — Ve**en- Yarbrough coni 1 have been tempted to the
loafers nave wockij meeun 0 .. * commission of tbe crime by a vixen 6uch as
ger. I s he is represented to be, unless it was effect-
Lawrekceville.—There is in Gwin ed through the mysterious influence of
nett county a band of cattle thieves who | psyehotnancy.
continually steal oxen and steers and sell , At the time we go to press, the trial of
them to Atlanta butchera. Several ani- I “ dlaa 1 a ^ b h® be iiif a ^„n el L 6U, J r ’J Jas ^ Mitch -
t ‘ i, a j Kp^n stolon by thpm I e H and John Mitchell, her father, is going
mala which had beent stolen by them I Qa jjdore Judge Thomason of the county
were recently discovered in an Atlanta | court. Yarbrough has been examined a nd
—It is stated that Tennyson has re-] waiting for the hail which - we hoped - „ . . ■ w.. — —— .uu
oeived $300 000 from his publishers, for might come. Morning came and found slaughter pen.- Gotton is going to I hi8 testimony corroborates what U stated
the sale of his poems. I us near the place where the sea was cov-1 market very last.—lieraia. | abOYe.
