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XNDistinct PWhT COX. ROBERT lAJVCE'i WEB-j to lather (he was a Dr. then) Governor Tlie cs TerriI»le State of Affairs STER INTERVIEWED. j Bard, he ■would lather Governor Bullock j j and Mr. Kimball. Does he do that still, The Political Situation from a aud do J OQ reckon he would pardon eith- Tonsorial Standpoint — Soap er of them if they should get into a and XatUer—Whiskey—Remi- scrape ? South.” Hon. J. Proctor Knott, of Ken tucky, on the Situation. niscences of Distinguished Men —Life in Washington in Ante- j Bellum Times. I am really unable to say what Gov ernor The Washington correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal, in his letter of the 17th, says: n Besides the real testimony given be- V Jrtu\ I t°re KuKlux Committee, there is a good Bard would do Colonel but I be- doal of docume ntary er parte evident in Iiove he does not now c lather Governor I the shape of letters that Lave come up Bullock and Mr. Kimball at all; besides from the South addressed to different The “interviewing” business having you are in error about his being Govern- j rnenibers showing the terrible condition obtained large popularity in journalism, or of Massachusetts. He was appointed StSub^ b ca?p?wS|gers we concluded some days ago to keep by President Grant to the high ‘and re-1 and scalawags. The information from pace with the age in all that can lend in- sponsible position of Governor of the Mississippi, especially, presents an ap- tercstto the columns of a progressive Territory of Idaho, but did not assume P a b* n S picture of oppressive taxation, newspaper, and so sent our favorite re- the greatness thrust upon him.” - °Thonsand?of the* beS porter, B. O. Hemian, Esq., to call upon “ Yes, it seems to me Pve read some- citizens of the State are doomed to wit- tbe distinguished gentleman whoso name where in Pilgrim’s Progress or Robinson ness the sacrifice of what little property appears above. Crusoe about men being bom great— fbey have saved since the war, all be- Arrivingat his place of business, our achievin’ greatness-and having great- | S theSLfidfSx-^ye^oAbVltate reporter found Col. Webster seated in ness thrust upon them. Governor Card, but was controlled by a ring of corrup- one of bis barber chairs strapping a razor, like myself, belongs to de latter class.— tionists and extortioners. This perhaps and issuing orders, general and special, Dars a sympathy between ns. You | ^ notjjexacfly the sort of testimony the claims as gelitimate are Robert Webster. Take dis ’ere chair—your turn next.— Here, Gilbert, take this genlum’s things.’ in his shirt sleeves, and his face gave my own, that" I am Robert Webster—it how the people are governed down there, evidence of the recent and most artistic was thrust upon me.” ” | The only wonder seems to be that they touches of some one of his aids-d'bar-1 “Do you think, Colonel, that theun-, _ „ „ bier-shop. His magnificent side whis-1 constitutionality of the Constitution, as I -jWithsnch a deplorable state of af- hers a la militaire in the severest sense— an abstract proposition, can be main- fairs set before them upon such relia- had been freely pomaded, brushed and tained, and that any government, Fede- hie testimony, it is singular that the frangipanied in the highest degree of the rative or Confederate, resting upon such law-abiding justice-Joying, freedom-: profession in which he holds conspicu- a basis, is susceptible of perpetuation ?” propagating, conscientious Radicals ous position. “ Yes, sah, dat it. can, if folks will do do npt at once commence the work of “Take a chair, sah; your turn next— right.” reconstructing the South. There fust come, fust sarved, am de rule here,” “Then you recognize the eternal prin- seems to he no doubt that affairs are was the greeting received by our reporter ciples of magna ebaxta, and father stand in a woful condition and that the on entering. on the platform of the Hartford Con- people need protection^ from their “Col. Webster, I believe,” enquired the vention, if I understand you j” rulers. Now is a good time to begin, “No; I never done dat—I wasnt never just when such an array of sworn “Yes, sah; that is, ‘Bob Yancy,’ as 11 dar in my life-never seed Hartford. I Sg am best known here; but de name I (used to go in debig Atlanta Conven- & t 9 f tion and hear Operia Bradley speak, and yVhat an Illinois Man Says. | Mr. Bryant, and : I always corroborates]. 1 . ' «5Jt5——— dar statements. But T : never saw no The following is but one of many. ‘No, Colonel; am obliged for your kind Hartford Convention, and I never saw similar letters that are reaching us by attentions; but I do not present myself Magna .Charta ; if I. did I did’nt know almost every maul: thin morning as a patron of your establish- him. • Was he on the State Road with u i HI., July 14,1871." ment. Iam a member of the press—that Mr. Harris and Senator Blodgett ?” Host ■■ palladium of our liberties—and it is upon “No, Colonel, I tliinknot, juding from Dear Sir : I see from the papers that you „; r ,h,oI State that I have the honor to the w things were managed tUere.— form a call upon you, Colonel. Sir, your line- But I see you are somewhat averse to I political partnership with the mongrel ago is well known to, and is appreciated freely expressing your political views. | party,, or in other words, take. the “ New by tho masses of this liberty—loving Why is that, Colonel? Departure.” If so, send me a specimen land; and whatever may be your views “Well boss, I’se naturally a modestI yfluy fates of : sob- tnpon matters of public policy, and how- man, and do not like to have my opin- ^j^^jpftake the liberty to say the mass ever reticent you may have been in the ions paraded through the newspapers. I j of the Democracy here are not willing to past on all the great questions now agita- am very happy here among my razors, accept the situation, but the politicians ting tho country, such is the peril of the soaps, combs and brushes, and do “ot for themost part^e._ “situation” now, Colonel, that your fel- wish to be fetched into politics.^ j - > j P low-countrymen have the right to know Governor Bard and I, both, be- your views, and it is upon such a mission belongs to de ’Publicans, and I likes dis that I have done myself the honor to 'ere kind Of oceum wm a&”.ilaticum to wait upon you.” I being nominated to an office by the Gov- “Yes, sah; take dis ’ere chair, and I’ll emor, or appinted to one by General wait on you myself. Here, Gilbert, clean Grant. I doesn’t want to go to no St. dis genlum’s boots, and band me my cup Durango, or be made minister to Utah, and lathering brush. Wbar’s de soap? None of dat for dis chile. ’ and who’s been using my strap? Gilbert, “You spoke of being in Washington City in early life, Colonel. You have seen much of high life in the capital of the na tion, I presume? “Ob, yes, sab; I was bom dar, and used We find in an exchange, a speech by the above named distinguished Democratic leader, from which we take the following extract: . r ' ■ I make no pretensions to the character of a party leader, and have no aspira tions to be considered as an architect of public sentiment ; yet, while I entertain the profoundest respect for the opinion of those who may differ with me on this as.upon other questions, I must be per mitted to say that my poor capacity can discern in it nothing but disaster, should it become the doctrine ef the Democracy that these amendments are in fact a part of the Constitution, never to be dis turbed. We cannot afford; after having denounced them so long and so truthful ly, as frauds and outrages upon the peo ple, fraught with the elements of certain destruction of our form of government, to tarn around now and pledge the faith of the party to their acceptance and their execution. Nor, in my humble " judg ment, is such a course necessary to suc cess, even if it has’come to that extremi ty that party triumph, can be obtained only by an abandonment of some political principle. The great heart of the American people does not endorse these amend ments. ....7'" .icOili So - ’ .:rr The doctrine of the Fifteeth Amend ment was repudiated by the Badical par ty itself, in the very Convention that nominated General Grant, when it de clared, -in the second resolution of its platform, that the question of suffrage, especially in the loyal States, rightfully belonged exclusively to the people of the several States. They dared not go into the canvass upon the contrary principle, for wherever the question of negro suf frage had been submitted to the fdirect vote of the people in any of the “loyal States,” it had met with an overwhelm ing and crushing repudiation. Missouri, bound and manacled a©/she was, voted it down by over thirty-five thousand ma jority ; Michigan voted it-down-by-over twenty thousand majority ; Wisconsin by over thirty thousand, and Ohio - by over fifty thousand. Even bleeding Kansas repudiated it by a majority of over seven thousand. Nor is this all. With the principles involved in-these amendments as the leading issues between the parties, A. H. Stephens, Atlanta, Ga.— the Democracy, with a little- over forty members in the lower. House ofthe for tieth Congress, increased her representa tion in the forty-second Congress to one hundred and three, with other States certain to give Democratic majorities yet to vote. The same ratio of gain would have given us the forty-third Congress, as well ag thee eletaraj. college, by an overwhelming majority. v : keep do flies ofFn dis genlum, “Mr. Vallandigliam, whose tragic fate, Colonel, is yet fresh in our memory” ^^S^SC!^**"*** fourthstoiyof -del ‘ Freeh, Bay, in our m , boas’ house; but in dem days dar -wasn’t originator of the new deportare theory Congress, and wo had fust of restoring ^'. metohedly ihstmoted ^ ’ nation; but so divided is public opinion b _ fto corroetness of tho doctrines QongnMnnn. den didn thane four or enunciated by him, and so much discus- •*** *“*““? out niad, ' Tubas resnfted therefrom, that it is i m . | nor drd the Erosrdent get nheapof pres- The Old Gray Googg. DV EIIIKO. Tho oia gray gooso I ioved so woU Is dead, and I am left alone; And language fails my grief to tell, As o’er her grave I weep and moan; Then fare thee well, my goosio gray. No more we’ll gabble here below; But ne’er will I forget the day, When, goose-like, we all gabbled so. Poor Sallie weeps the Uvelpng day Because our poor gray goose is dead, And often have I heard her say ’Twas so much like the man she wed 1' - ■ ■ i Then fare thee well, poor goosio gray, Tho’ gone, thymantlo stUlis here, And Sallie woars it every day, And proves herself a goosie dear. Pettigru King Bowen* upon bw him. find so much discus-1 ~ °_Y 7 7' ’1 . . A Washington correspondent writes: portanTtbatwe should have all the tight I ent ? like eamecocks, bull pups and pint-1 Ag for Bowen, her case excites er dogs; and I never seed Mr. Webster the dee pesfc interest and sympathy “Oh! ves. gah* GO od light is mighty I or Calhoun wid dar foots cocked up, eat- here . S he is devotedly attached to Z * d T h „ ve cas in dis shop 7 iQ S goobers in the Senate. No, sah,none her numerous husband, and declares necessary, and I did have gas rn dis shop, j q , ^ ^ Wllshingt ou when I was dar.” that she will stick to him. She be- Why, Colonel Webster, one would sup- lieves that her marriage was legal and pose you to be a democrat to hear you that it it was formed in good faith by speak. Perhaps you are one of the I both her husband and herself. It is “new departure” wing of that party “Well, I is a sort of a democrat some times, and den agin I’se a ’Pablican.— I keeps dis ’ere shop for all kinds of people, and shaves all dat li j persons who are not partiGular- I’se for what pays most— ]y friendly say he will do nothing of j said they are now living together, oc cupying a house here owned by her self. Bowen’s friends assert that he will at once take steps to procure a legal divorce, to which he is entitled, but dey charges too high. I bums Petro now. Fling open dat shutter dar, Gil bert.” “Tho idea is, Colonel—and it is the wish of all good men both South and North—to construct some sort of plat form upon which the lovers of liberty in both sections can stand. The true patri ots of all sections of the Union are one in sentiment, as to the preservation of ! d geQ ain’t as easy I the kind—that he is not entitled" to a those liberties bequeathed to us by the 1 * — — 1 — sires of 76, but the difficulty is to bring them together. A feeling of homogeneity is wanted to be inculcated between the mn-qgAfl at the North and Sontb, and the question at last resolves itself into . a I private betlreea us. goin’ here in Georgia as they was some divorce—that no court would dare to time ago, ’specially on de State Road. I grant it now* and that he dare not ‘departs” fust from one side den from ’ ~—- L “ - - — the other, if dat’s what you call your apply for it; but that he and Mrs. 'ettigru King will continue to live “new departure,” butof course all dis is together, leaving the world to.say and platform—such an one as all can stand upon. And now, Colonel, let the country have the benefit of your opinion as to |“^. > '“dlhe interview was brought bow we can construct such a platform- think as it please, thus leaving it in the hands of the other two Mistresses Bowen to obtain divorces on the Here a number of customers entered the tonsorial apartments of CoJ. J**-1 Sound of adultery,"if" they "see fit ster, and the interview was brought to an gentleman> w bo lives in Charles- abrupt termination. “Gilbert” flew I ton, above alluded to, says that Mrs. “Well, sir, I isn’t much of a carpenter, I around promiscuously with his fly-brush, Bowen was celebrated for her wit and andha’nt had no heap of ’sperience in and the Colonel began to lather a new sarcasm in Charleston, and he related lumber and tools. Ise been sbavin’ and face. “Take seats, genlums; your turn many instances of her brilliancy in waitin’ on genlums pretty much all my next; fust eome/fust sarved, is do rule in conversation and in society. She was 'Jife here and in Washington City, but | dis shop. ,de fust things you’ll have to get is some mighty good lumber. If it’s a big meet- in’ you are goin’ to have, and there’ll be a heap of people up on the stand, it : should be made very strong, and you .don’t want no d—d fool carpenter to put Exit reporter. TENNESSEE. at one time regarded as the most bril liant and fascinating woman in the State, and owing to her father’s posi tion, her society was greatly sought by distinguished strangers. She was, in fact, in her prime (perhaps after she was married to her irrst husband) jBsc-Pres'dcxt J’cff’. JO art» denies the Slander- one charges made against him. Meephis, July 21.—The following j sort of woman that was always it together. Gilbert, quit flinging your I w iu appear in to-morrow’s Avalanche.— popular among gentlemen, bntlooked watermelon rind on the floor dar. In “Before and since my arrival in Mem- upon with suspicion (born of envy dis town in 1868, 1 saw some of ’em build pMs, this day, my attention has been yon may be sure) by the ladies. She a platform under a brush arbor. But it | called to a slan3ar6as article in pertain | reigned supreme in^ every assembly, wasn’t an easy one, some how. Tt I Badical newspapers which attack my pri-1 -party or rout, and the prim, modest Al/ I f _ rrtifh O lorlw I ■Y . * - 7 ,, -- - A 7 . . , , r vate character, in connection with a lady • po-H-d w. f as f <didn’t exactly break down, but some of ^ is freely stated, was traveling un-1 2 . S Abe genlums didn’t stay on it much. Mr. j der my charge. It is deemed due to my-1 ^ AN ANECDOTE. Ben. Bill was dar for awhile, and seemed self as well as my personal friends, to When Thackery visited. Charleston liisself migUUy, but be HI Uny*^ 0 , # a Mfeggfe - - - - - i uio MiAJi.y xii 1 his honor, he was presented to Mrs. King. Ini his blunt English manner he greeted her: “ My dear madame, I am very glad to see yon. I have heard, much of yon. I hear yon are very witty, but later in de day.” i sential parts is unmistakably the instiga- “ Ah, well, Colonel, that is past and tion of malice, and I hereby pronounce j gone—that is a ‘dead issue,’ as Governor gggjffi 8 ** Jeetjtbson Davts. Bard would say ; besides, it is not the *■ ° kind of platform I allude to.’ t* Governor Bard, did you say ? Wbar is he now?”* “ Hero in this city.’ Rev. Mr. Cheney, and those co-operat- iog witli bini, do not inteml to bo driven jbglit laugll and a square | out of the Episcopal chinch, or to accept | look ^ his % Jes> sll t answcred quick- ly: «Oh, but Mr. Thackery, we must not believe everything we hear. Now, I the position of seceders from it, ■“ I used to shave him when he was a | they have exhausted ah legal remedies, private citizen here, but he went off and . . _____ got elected Governor of Massachusetts, If it is true that by deeds of kindness l/haye heard you were a gentleman _ r _ and hasn’t been in my shop since. I coals of fire are heaped upon the heads It 1 is doubtful if this rencounter March, 1873.- On the .fourth his morn- nn. I n t it would take a long time I ever took place between the parties ing beams may dawn upon the infanl named, but it will pass just the same. 1 Inpierme. that contest the Democracy of Kentucky constitutes the vanguard the advanced skirmish line. H that true and gallant band do their duty faithfully and nobly, as I know they will, all may be well. [Applause.] Remember that this is not a mere contest between in dividuals, but a contest for principle, a contest for State existence, and personal liberty protected by law. About Gen. Jubal Early. Evans, of the Hillsboro’ .(Nf C.) liecordcrysh.SLS been in Ricmnona again. He was at the Ballard, and saw Gen. Early, which called up these reminiscences of the war: We met Gen. Lane to-day at tho Bal lard and he introduced us to Gen. Early. “Old Jube” is the same old war horse as when he used to ride humpbacked- and carry his aids right up to the line of bat tle to “see bow the fight was going.” We Tememher when lie was in command of Hill’s corps (Hill being sick) he had Gen. Hill’s cousins> Dick, we tnink—at any rat© he was a quartermaster—acting aid for him. “Let’s ride down to the tine,” screeched. the old General, and off they galloped. Hotter and hotter got the fight, and nearer and nearer the old General and his aid. Whiz, zoo, come the bullets, and Hill says he felt aiwful curious, but too proud to “ show any.’’; “Take a drink ?” said the Gener al, offering a flask. Hill clutched it.— “Touch it tight,” said the old vet., ‘there’s hardly enough for us both.”— Still they kept on riding. Whiz, zoo, zoo. “It’s getting right warm,” said the General. “Very warmpsir,” reptiedHill. Bode on again. “I’s right hot,” quoth “oldJubal.” “Dam hot sir,” emphati cally spoke Hill. Now they were riglit behind the line of battle. “Suppose we dismount,” (Hill was down’and behind a tree) said the General. And he got down and looked on tike he was in a catttle show; departing on a cow-catcheb. In view of these facts, after we have carried line after tine, and entrenchment after entrenchment, of the enemy’s works, when we were on the flood-tide of suc cess, and moving with increasingcertain- ty right on to an overwhelming triumph, wliy wo should abandon the field, why we should change front and- oouud an igno minious retreat, I confess is utterly Be yond my powers of comprehension. It is a species of party straegy entirely too deep for my conception, unless it is for the purpose of constructing a platform upon which some favorite candidate for the Presidency may stand with safety and comfort to himself, or unless it bo os an old' farmer said to me the other day, when I asked his' opinion of the “new departure,” that some impatient Demo crats, ; seeing. the Radical party going to the devil on “a down grade with the brakes off,” have determined to beat them by jumping on the “cow-catcher. "Great laughter.] I repeat, I am not a party leader, nor do I aspire to be. I am, and expect to be, a private in the ranks, fighting for the principles which have been the cynosure of my political career through life, but if. I-were I should con sider myself ■ unworthy either of your confidence or respect if I failed to speak to you, as I have on this occasion, frank ly, candidly, sincerely, and earnestly upon this question. [Applause.] rl may be mistaken, but my opinion is that the proud old party I have loved so long will never depart from the hand- maxks of her ancient faith. . [Applause.] Whatever others may do I have an abid ing faith that Kentucky, true to her an cient prestige, the first to the charge and the last to the retreat, in every contest for the supremacy of the Constitution and the rights of the several States under it, will never desert the standard she so j valiantly flung to the breeze in 1798.— Great "applause.] Descended from an ancestory who made their homes in the proud old Commonwealth, when it was indeed “the dark and bloody ground, ' with the scalping knife and tomahawk gleaning around them, and taught by them from my earliest youth to rever ence, with more than filial piety, all the traditions of her chivalry and. her glory, l ean ask for her no prouder eulogy from the pen of history than that, as she was the first to clearly and distinctly define the rights of herself and her sister sov ereignty, she went down in the vortex of centralization with her glorious colors proudly flying. [Great applause.] Without recapitulating the long cata logue of usurpations, outrages and crimes, against citizens and States alike, which has marked the career of the Badical party since its accession to power, the grand results of its ten years of adminis tration may be summed up as follows^ The-utter and absolute overthrow of out system of Federal Government, through pretended amendments to the Constitu tion, procured by force and fraud; and the introduction into' the representative body of the people of a large and- popu lous element^ with just about as many qualifications for an intelligent exercise of the elective franchise os a gorilla from the jungles of Africa has to give instruc tions in the Integral Calculus or Newton’s Principia. [Great laughter and ap plause.] 7 ; -’ In conclusion, my fellow-citizens, per mit me to remark that, in my judgment, we are upon the eye of the last contest for civil liberty. Perhaps for centuries to come, should the Democracy prove triumphant in that conflict, the principles of free govern ment will be so firmly fixed that all the storms of faction that may bowl around them for generations will not be able to shake them from their base. [Applause/ But if on the other hand the Radicals should succeed in electing Gen. Grant— who will be their candidate beyond a per- adyenture—the sun \yill perhaps set for the last time on representative republican gov ernment on this continent on the 3rd of saddle, and “over the hills and far away.” Captain Hill, who was a good and gallant officer, often told this on himself and en joyed it heartily. GENERAL EABL2 ON THE “TAB HEELS.” “God bless the tar heels. Rhodes told me, before he died, he had one in' his division who always fought without his shoes, and,” said he* “that man has got fifteen hundred dollars in greenbacks, now, he has taken from the dead Yan kees.” WHO THE GENERAL APAHRES. “Give me the men that faught with their shirt-tails out and their knees with hole in them. I always love to meet them.*’ ■ » • 4 . •' '■ — Do Principles Die 7 ? The agitation of what is called the new departure” scheme throughout the country at the present time, is prolific of avast deal of ignorance of the funda mental principles of political discussion in quarters where we 1 would have a right to look for better things. Democrats are to be found, as well as Republicans, who fail to apprehend their positions or their duties in relation to themselves, their country and their oppo nents ; and the cry of such papers as the World and a few others, aided by the Radical press in general, that the Demo cratic party has departed from its creed, creates disgust in the minds of some and confusion and alarm with others. 1 J ‘ To this latter class and) to those of the Democratic party who are willing for the sake of a short-sighted time-serving scheme to stultify a principle, we desire to say a few explanatory and appealing words, The note of the campaign of ’72 was sounded by the able and patriotic ad dress of the Democratic members of Con gress, which we published a few weeks ago, wherein they made up the issue upon but three propositions between radicalism and democracy. The tariff, that fosters corruption and produces op pression, the corrupt and extravagant ad ministration of the federal government, and thirdly and mainly, the dangerous centralizing tendenceis and acts of the rad- icpl party, were made the points of at tack by the democracy. The warfare thus begun by the demo cratic party is aggressive—we are not on the defence on a solitary point, and we do not propose to be diverted from our attack upon these sore and objective points by any side issues or skirmishing in any quarter whatever. Governor Hoffman, of this State, in his able and patriotic letter to the Tam many Society on the 4th of July, which will be found bn the first page of this paper, presses some of these points in a vigorous and lucid style. The Governor very property makes the centralizing tendencies of radicalism the main point of attack, and says substan tially that the acceptance or adoption of two or three political weather-cocks of radicalism, called the new amendments, is no longer a question at issue. It is settled that these amendments, are in form a part of the fundamental law of the land, and as such they are to be re garded until they are declared otherwise. We warn our democratic friends’ that this talk about a new departure is unjust to its author, Mr. Vallandigliam, -whose declarations concerning these amend ments; have been perverted by the radi cals into giving a democratic sanction to all that the democracy has fought so des perately for the past ten years. Principles never die; and we were right in 1850, and in 1860, 1864, ’68, and ’70, we cannot go wrong by advocating the same ideas in ’72, or ’82. A princi ple is the same under all circumstances, and no lapse of time, or unusual upturn ing of events can change its application or operation in any future howsoever dis tant ; and we therefore place ourselves on the side of those who are consistent, whether they are successful at first or not.—Goshen Republican, (Democratic) JSfeic York July, 13, 1871. Gen. Early and Gen. MaUonc. A correspondence between these- gentlemen, says the Savanmih News, is published in the Lyncnburg pa pers. Gen. Early requests Gen. Ma- hone to correct certain errors made in a biography of the latter some time since published in the Histori cal Magazine. Gen. Mahone explains how the objectionable references to Gen. Early appeared, and promises to re-puhlisli the article divested, of them. Then comes the following note, which indicates that there has been a more serious correspondence' between these two gallant officer’s: , 7 _ Lynchburg, July 11,1871. General—The action of Gen. Bradley T. Johnson and Col. Robert E. Withers, in conjunction with Capt. Ham. Oham- berlayne, ou tho 4th inst., in withdraw ing the previous correspondence between . us, subsequent to my letter of inquiry of the 21st of March last, is accepted and confirmed by me. Your letter of the 8th inst., was hand ed me last night, and has been read, as have the proof sheets of the revised copy of the Memoir which you mention. I find that alL the passages in the original Memoir which were personally offensive to me, have been expurgated in this re vised copy; and, without indicating any opinion as to its accuracy or merit in other respects, I will say that the Memoir, as it now appears in the revised copy, is unobjectionable to me in the particular above mentioned. • • :. Respectfully, your obedient servant, j; A. Early. Gen. Wm. Mahone.” -4 A “Whopper.” Wo find this item iu the Augusta Con- slitutionalist of yesterday ; Yellow Fever in Savannah.-—Welearn that a gentleman of this city received a letter from a friend residing in Savannah, cautioning him from visiting that place (as he proposed doing) as “ Yellow Jack” had made his appearance, and several persons died from yellow fever. Of course we are unable to judge of the truth of the rumor, but should it be true the authorities of; Savannah should make the facts public. We can assure the public that there is not the slighest ground for the above statement, and what oould have influ enced any resident of our. city to utter sq malicious a falsehood, we cannot divine. Not a case of yellow fever has occurred in Savannah the present season, and tho city was never healthier in the month of July, despite the almost intolerable hot weather. We have the best authority for this statement. Our bills of mortality . are published weekly to-day, and the pub- : lie may rely on their correctness, J ^ The above we find in the Savannah Republican of the 19th. In the same. . paper appears the regular weekly bill of mortality, from which we learn that the deaths for the week ending July the 17th' were 10 white adults, 2 white infants and 8 "colored—mak ing a total of 20—which is precisely the record of the corresponding week of 1870. as Mr, Bullock. I recollect when I used to get up a flame. A Wolf in Sleep’s Clothing. A Quincy dispatch says a man repre senting. himself as a Catholic Priest was arrested there charged with obtaining money under false pretenses. He claims to be Eather Boniface, of Baltimore, but has several aliases, being known as J. P. Crowley, Father O’Neil, etc. He has victimized the people in St. Louis, Kan sas City, St. Joseph, Mo., and in this city, raising subscriptions ostensibly for church purposes, A certificate of de posit, for"; several hundred dollars from a St. Joe Bank was found in his posses sion. Hon. John C, Breckenridge. At the meeting of the Directors of the Industrial Association of Georgia, heldd at the reading room of the Marshall House last evening, this distinguished •• statesman and gallant soldier was unani mously elected to deliver the oration a£ the opening of the Institute in Novem ber, next, in this city. The ehoice is in deed a happy one, and we but repeat the sentiment of every American citizen who admires true manhood, in. anticipating the future by cordially welcoming the distinguished gentleman among us. We wish the counsels'Of such men, and de sire that the reflex of their patriotism and virtues should be felt among our people as in days of yore.—Savannah News, 19. *-+-4 The man who has no resources of mind is far more to be pitied than the one who has no provisions for his body. It is eas ier to die than it is to live dependant for daily life on others. There come to ev ery one of us times when society palls upon us, when we find no happiness eith er in the crowded assembly or iu the quiet parlor, when companionship is rather an annoyance than a pleasure. At such times, what is to become of the man without mental resources? He has eaten, he has drank, he has slept. What shall he now do? Life is burdensome, exist ence is tasteless. Not knowing whither to turn, is it any wonder he dreams of suicide, and is it any matter if his dream “comes true?” -»-♦-« Practical joking has reached the heighth of bad taste when a “funny” friend to science sent Captain Hall, just as he was on the eve of sailing, a tin can, carefully selected and labelled “not to be opened until the Polaris has reach ed theoretic seas.” But on its passage to the navy-yard for being shipped it met with an accident, and the secret • leaked out. It was a can of patent axle grease, with which Oaptain Hall or his survivors were affectionately requested by letter to lubricate the axle of this slow-going world if found at the pole. • a 1 ‘ ►-•-< Thomas Lincoln, universally known as “Tad” Lincoln, the youngest son of the late President died at the Clifton House, at Chicago,. at 7 o’clock on Saturday morning, of dropsy of the heart, aged 18. He was taken ill a few days after re turning from Europe. (During his illness his mother has been his almost constant attendant. There has always existed the warmest affection between the two, and Mrs. Lincoln is almost completely pros trated by her affliction. : - . >-•-<——■— Goethe used to say that it is only necessary to grow old in order to be come indulgent. “I see no fault,’’ said he, “committed by others which I have not myself committed.” Age does not generally bring with it lenity like this. Living as it does in the past, it is apt to look upon the days of its earlier life as containing all that there is of bright and good. At Iron ton, Ohio, Daniel Lewis, d recently of delirium tremens, and I I i widow sued one Evans from whom the deceased used to buy his whisky. The J u fy awarded her 85,000 damages, which wiii swallow up the net profits on the last 100,000 drinks that Evans has sola,