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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.