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TH K ATLANTABUN
From Till? Ilallj Sun of Frbranrj 25,1873
WEEILLY
VOL. 3, NO. 40! ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1873.
I WHOtEl A A
\ HUMBER
ff\. u(jRL>OS S ELECTION AS SENATOR.
Some time ago the Talbotton
Standard had an editorial on this sub
ject, ascribing the election ol Gen.
Gordon “to the prominent position
he occupied in the late Liberal can
vas.-,’’ to which we joined issue in an
article in The Sun. To this the
Standard replies in its lust issue, in
which it says:
lu common with thousands of lifelong
Democrats, Gen. Gordon accepted the
Liberal movement us the less of evils,
and it appears to ns rather strange con
sistency when The Sun affirms that Gor
don accepted the movement as the lets of
the evils, and gave liis active co-operatioD
to its furtherance, and then in the same
breath most ponderously asserts that
Gen. Gordon never endorsed the Cincin
nati platlorm by reason of his Jefferso
nian politics, lfis bold advocacy of that
cause we take to be sufficient evidence of
his endorsement of its principles. Surely
ho could not be gui*ty of the gross in
consistency of publicly advocating a set
ot measures, and arguing their accep
tance by the people of his State, us the
only available means of liMing our poli
tical thraldom, if ho did not endorse
what ho recommended.
We have not the slightest desire to
make an issue of any sort with our
Democratic contemporaries only so
far as to “ vindicate the truth of his
tory.” What we said of Gen. Gor
don’s election as Senator was for that
purpose, and we are prepared to de
fend the correctness of our statements
in connection with that subject with
the simple facts of the case as we
know them oursc
T v<
■?. This we do m
no (captious spirit. 1 ndcod, we prefer
to lot the matter rest, preferring tc
give tin* weight and influence of our
paper to the promotion and harmony
of the great Democratic party, which
we conceive to be the only political
party capable of saving our country
from the oppressions of Centralism.
We again state for the benefit of
our contemporary, and all others who
may agree with it, that Gcii. Gordon
never endorsed the Cincinnati plat
form. Like many other true and
honest. Democrats, he supported Mr.
Greeley as the less of evils, and not
on principle, lie stated, publicly
SPIRIT OP TUE GEORGIA PRESS
The LaGrange Reporter con
demns in strong terms the action of
the Legislature in regard to the press
tax. It makes these truthful remarks
concerning the good the press ac
complished in the darker days of re
construction :
When the State was in the hands of
the Radicals; when her people were be
ing slowly but surely dragged down to
the humiliation and the misery that in
evitably follow Radical rule in the South,
the Tress of Georgia made unceasing
and uncompromising warfare ou the
usurping government, and no one agency
did as much as this to redeem Georgia
and lift her out of tne dust.
The Columbus Enquirer has an
article on the Southern Pacific Rail
road, in which it refers to the report
made favorably to a bill authorizing
a consolidation of the Texas Pacific
Railroad Company with other com
panies proposing to build continuing
or connecting lines. The Enquirer
says:
We have always been apprehensive
that when a railroad to the Pacific along
a southern parallel of latitude should be
completed, it would be under such man
agement and have 6uch connections as
would make it more beneficial to North
oru tbau to Southern Atlantic cities.
The combinations authorized by the bill
do not tend to allay that apprehension.
It is a shiimeiul exhibition of the sec
tional partiality of the Federal Govern
meut ihat so many millions have beeu
bestowed to build Pacific Ra.lroads along
Northern ionics of greater distance and
through regions in everyway less in-
vitreg and less favorable to such enter
prises, white the shorter aud more prac
ticable Southern routes have been so |
long neglected. And now there is pood
reason to tear that the long delayed
roads through the Southern territory
will bo to n great extent controlled by
companies working for the aggrandize
ment of tho North rather than the
South.
The Central Georgian has this to
say of the bond compromise: “ The
compromise proposed by Mr. Sneed,
the agent of the bondholders in New
York, was certainly a most adroit
scheme to draw the State into a rec
ognition of these fraudulent trans
actions of Bullock, and one that
could have its conception in no other
place on the continent except "Wall
street.”
The Macon Telegraph, of yester
day, discussing “ Reconstruction in
Louisiana,” manifests a good deal of
disgust at that sort of work in that
State. It says:
There is but one practical way of deal
ing with such plague-spots es Congress
ional Reconstruction has made cf South
Carolina an 1 Louisiana. As it. is certain
Congress will never retrace it* f ital nrs-
'^take of negro suffrage, and such a suf-
of idle men and women, boys and
girls, in the State of Georgia to
manufacture nearly all the cotton
we produce, if only capital was so
diversified as to build up the neces
sary mills for that purpose. Capital
thus expended would return divi
dends in large per cents, to capitalists
and relieve the State of pauperism al
most eutirelv. It would be both State
THU POUJjyn ME PORT.
Current of Opinion In W.ihl.irlai
Winning a. Lover,
n on
tile Subject.
Special to the Chicago Tribune.
As soon as the matter had been dis
posed of, and Speaker Blaine had as
sumed the chair, the buzz and hum of
conversation was resumed with unwonted
energy. Members retired in knots to the
cl* ak rooms and lobbies, and the sundry
civil appropriation bill, which came up
next,[was left to be managed by the Com
n Appropriations.
BY AMY RANDOLPH.
‘Five dollars ! Oh Bridget, I wish I
mittee «.n Appropriations. “Well, what
and individual wealth, because by the ! do yon think of the report?” was the
increase of active capital and the ad
vancemenfcof industrial prosperity, it
would give work for all.
If tlie South would manufacture
her o^n cotton to the extent of her
ability to do so, it would retain mil
lions upon millions of dollars among
us that now go to enrich others.
We should have the world for a mar
ket; aud instead of poverty aud de
pression, we should soon be the mas
ters of the financial situation instead
of being beggars on Wall Street.
These hints are thrown out in a
hurried manner for reflection.
From the McDuffie Journal.’]
MR. STEPHENS.
and privately, time and again, that
he could not and would not endorse
the Cincinnati platform. He believed
that the election of Mr. Greeley, (sur- frage whenever triumphant must neces-
rounded, as it was believed by thou
sands of other good Democrats that
lie would be, by better influences,)
would be the best for the country and
the South, and therefore advocated
his election, as we have stated in
these columns, and which we now re
peat with emphasis, as the “ less of
evils.”
There is not in the State of Georgia
a truer Jeffersonian Democrat, we
believe, than Gen. Gordon. It is the
political faith of his fathers and the
cu'od of his life; and, therefore, it
would be monstrous in him to be
anything else than a Jeffersonian
Democrat His efforts in the future
will, doubtless, be to harmonize the
Democracy of the Union upon the
line and in the true spirit of its au-
cient and well-tried principles. And
in taking the position he did in the
late canvass, that of taking the
‘•lesser evil,” he is not to be con
demned for doing what he believed
was the best for his country, although
it was a mistaken policy into which
sarily make vicious governments, elimi
nate suffrage altogether in those States.
Give them military—proconsular govern
ments at the expense and under the
sanction of the Federal government.
Abolish alike voting and taxation, and
maintain order by military force. This
is hard, but how much better than the
grotesque saturnalia of knaves aud ne-
g.oes, in wnich property and responsi
bility are a curse to their possessors.
Last Friday morning it was an
nounced in our town that the “Great
Commoner” would he on the up pas
senger train on his way home from
Augusta, and, although the time for
the dissemination of the information
was very short, quite a crowd of our
citizens, ladies apd gentlemen, to
gether with our gallant and patriotic
Firemen, assembled at the depot to
catch a glimpse of the person, and
hear the voice, of the loved and re
vered “ Sage of Liberty Hall.”
The cars, unfortunately, were be
hind time so that Mr. Stephens only
had time to say a few w T ords before the
whistle sounded and the train again
moved on amid the waving of hand
kerchiefs and hats, and the enthu
siastic shouts of the people.
A public meeting was immediately
held, with Judge James B. Neal in
the chair, when, upon motion, a com
mittee of five, with Judge Neal as
chairman, was appointed to invite
Mr. Stephens to visit aud address the
people of this place.
Below we give the letter of invita
tion and the acceptance of Mr. Ste
phens:
Thomson’, Ga., February 13, 1873.
To the lion. Ale.cn/uter H. Stephens, Craw-
fordviUe, Ga.: Dear and Honored Sir—
At it public meeting of the citizeus of
McDuffie and adjoining counties, held
to-day in the town of r Tt)omson, we, the
undersigned, were appointed a commit-
te*• to uodress you a respectful, earnest
aud cordial invitation to visit onr town
ird county at nuy convenient lime be
fore die appioacmng Congressional elec
tion. and meet aud aud address your fel
low-citizens on the political issues of the
day.
Hoping that your health and engage-
meuts will allow you to comply with tiie
unanimous wish of our people, and that
you will name an early day for so doing,
we are, very respectfully.
Your obedieut servants,
Jos. B. Neal, Chm’n,
Jas. S. Jones,
Wm. Johnston,
R H Bush,
T. L. Lallerstedt,
Paul C. Hudson,
Committee.
common question. Tnis form of inter
rogatory was uniform from one of the
hall to the other, but the responses were
not always the same. There was, how
ever, a wonderful unanimity on one
point, to-wit: That the report was far
from being satisfactory. There were
those who stigmatized it as a whitewash
ing document, so far as those members
are ooDcerned who were exonerated,
while it was generally rated as severe and
one-sided in the cases of Ames and
Brooks.
The members who were exonerated by
the committee’s report received, as a
matter of-conrse, the congratulations of
their friends, but their manner indicated
that they did not feel themselves clearly
out of the woods. Men of the stamp of
Ben. Butler were ready for a contest
over the report then and there. The Es
sex statesman boldly asserts that if
Ames whs to be expelled for bribery, it
was a clear proposition that somebody
must have been bribed. He said he
made no charges, but he would leave it
to any man with ordinary common sense,
if he was not correct in demanding to
knowjwho had been bribed.
Ou the Democratic side of the House
the feeling was, if possible, more intense
against the report. The leading Demo
crats stated that, while they were willing
to vote for the expulsion of Ames and
Brooks, they did not propose to white
wash men who were equally guilty. Had
a vote been taken to-day on the resolu
tions submitted by the committee, there
is no question but that they would have
been defeated. As it is, the probability
is that they will be loaded down with
amendments, alter which-the wliole mat
ter will bo laid upon the table. It is
already proposed, when the report comes
Ix-iore the House, from a prominent
D; mocratic souice, to amend the resolu
tions to expel Arnes and Brook.*-, so as to
include all the names mentioned as re
ceiving Credit Modifier stock. George
W. Morgan is also of the opiniou that
Schuyler Colfax is so far implicated that
a resolution of impeachment is demand
ed in his case.
knew of any way by whicn I could earn
five dollars.”
Our scene was no silk-liued boudoir,
no picturesque wooden ravine fringed
with terns aud musical with the ripple
of moss-brown waters, but only an un
derground city kitchen, with a gloomy
range of washtubs on one side, and a
scantily furnished dresser on the other.
And Minnie Akerly, a beautiful young
girl of seventeen, sat perched on the
aforesaid tubs, swinging her prettv little
feet to and fro, whiio a stout Irish wo
man, with a basket op her arm, stood
opposite.
“You, Miss, dearechoed Bridget
Maloney. “But sure, that's a different
thing altogether.”
“ We need money so badly,” said Min
nie soberly. “ And now that Papa is ill,
and has lost his office, we have so little.
And Sarah advertised for a place as a nur
sery governess, but no one answered the
advertisement. I could teach, I think,
but every place is filled, and Mr. Rus*
sell says there are ten applicants to at
least every vacancy,”
“ The pity of it,” sighed the sympa
thizing Bridget, “ when the likes of me
gets more work than she cau do. For
there is a jintleman sent a dozen shirts
last night to be done up, and it’s rnesilf
will hive to send them hack.”
“ How much to you have apiece ?
“ A shilling, Miss”
“ That would be twelve shillings—a
dollar and a half,” said Minnie medita
tively, “ Bridget, would you let me do
them ?”
“You, Miss Minnie ?”
“Do,” coaxed the girl. “I know I
could. I did papa’s last week, aud he
never knew they were not ironed by a
regular laundress. I should so like to
earn a little money all of my own. I
could buy mamma somjp wiue, and Sarah
a new winter dress, and—Oh,” with a
low sigh, “I could do so many nice
things, if only I had a little money.”
“Well, I declare,” said honest Bridget,
rubbing her nose. “And yon Judge
Akerly’s daughter 1”
“Won’t you let me, Bridget?”
Minirie had jumped off' the wash-tubs
and come close to tne good natured Irish
woman, with sparkling eyes aud cheeks
deep dyed with the deep earnestness of
her pleading. “Please, I could conic to
your house this afternooD, and papa
would think I was walking in the Park.”
“Sure, you’d be kindly welcome, Miss,”
accedeu Bridget. “Only—”
Away ran Minnie in great glee, to
, make all necessary preparations for the
specxaitotheancttin.ti G3ZP.tc i j atternoon’s work.
ike opinions on tho Poland report are ..j WOIit tell Sarah,” she thought, “nor
numerous and diverse. Haruly any two mamma becaUbe t ^ ey . d bo ^ re to erv
meu whose judgment is worth considers | d make a fuss ove / it . ru just Bteal
tion agree in their views of the reasoning ietl after I’ve made the ome-
or conclusions of the reoort. though I ^ { * or pap £ s lunch< G nly i{ Mr . lius .
’ and the lovely face
or conclusions of the report, though
there is very* little disposition tQ charge I ^iI°»honld 4 "cidl
the committee with neglecting or shirk- f } f( , rusec0Ed
mg fr xn t xeir mos unpleasant duty, or | A thia ia one 0 F f lh e oDportuui-
wuli an inclination to excuse the offenses. •’ ■ r - -
or offenders. Among the Democrats,
however, frequent exceptions are taken
COTTOX
PLASTERS AXD COTTOX MAXC-
FACTURERS.
It pa)’s to produce cotton and it
pays to manufacture it. If it pays
the producer and the manufacturer,
why should it not pay one man doubly
to do both ? If it did not pay to
raise cotton, we should not have any
of it; if it did not pay to manufac
ture it, we should have no factories.
If there is money in raising and
manufacturing cotton, why cannot
the people of the South grasp the
monopoly within their reach by doing
both ? Suppose the cotton planters,
by some co-operative plan, should
erect factories in each county suffi
cient to spin and weave their own
cottou, does not every one see how
the very be&t Democrats of the coun- they would be rewarded doubly for
try fell.
In conclusion, we have to say to
our respected contemporary that we
their industry and enterprise?
Now, this is an important question
that might be solved to the great pe-
Licebiy Hall, Fraivfoiidville, Ga.,)
February 15, 1873. f
Messrs. Jas. S. Jones, Wm. Johnston,
and other... Th/mson, Ga.—Gentlemen:
Iu reply to yonr kind letter of yesterday,
ri questing me to address the citizens of
McDuffie and adjoining counties, before
the approaching election, etc., I can only
say tliat my engagements are such that I
cannot designate any day that will suit
my convenience better than Wednesday
the 26tk instant—the day on which the
election is to take place.
If nothing Providentially prevents, I
will be with you and respond to yonr
call on that day.
Yours most respectfully,
Alexander H. Stephens.
to the character of the report in refer
ence to Brooks, whose condemnation
they consider too severe and dispropor
tionate to his offense as compared with
Ames. Some ot the most prominent
Democrats are most free in criticism of
this nature on the report, and will proba
bly make a vigorous defense of their po
litical associate on political as well as
personal grounds. This feeling is shared
to some extent among the Republicans,
who wish to find an escape from the most
distasteful vote which the resolution or
the committee indicate.
The lawyers of the House are also di
vided in judgment on the legal and con
stitutional question of jurisdiction ar
gued at leDgth by the committee, but the
Democrats’ sympathy for Brooks is the
only real significant result of the report
which has thus far developed itself, or
on which any prediction of the final ac
tion of the House can be based. The
general impression among the most in
flnential and best informed members ap
pears to be, to-night, pretty well defined
that the report of the committee will be
severely dissected and criticised, and that
the resolution of expulsion will not pre
vail. The Democrats will not vote, ex
cept as a political necessity, to expel
Brooks, and if they save him, Ames has
friends enough among the Republicans
to protect him. It is too early, however,
to judge intelligently and satisfactorily
of the disposition of the House on the
lies to help myself that I have sighed lor
so long, and it will only be throwing luck
away to neglect it.”
And so Minnie Akerly stole away at
two o’clock, much to the displeasure of
her elder sister Sarah.
“I think she might nave stayed to read
to papa,” said she, “instead of leaving it
always to me.”
“My dear,” said conciliatory Mrs.
Akerly, “you must remember that she is
very young, and needs more relaxation
than we do.”
“Relaxation !” If they coaid only have
seen Minnie at that moment, with flushed
cheeks and sleeves rolled up to the fair
round shoulders, working as if her life
depended on it, they might have taken a
different view of matters and things in
general.
And the next day she went again to
iron the shirts she had washed so
daintily.
“Sure, Miss you’re making them look
like white satin,” cried the admiring
Bridget. “And it’s yourself would make
a decent livin’ entirely as a laundress, so
y ou would ! Only it makes my heart
ache to see the little white hands of
yours all blistered and burned with the
irons, and parboiled with soapsuds.’’
“My hands!” said Minnie, contemptu
ously, “a little glycerine and a week of
kid gloving, and they’ll be all right
again.”
And rather grudgingly, Miss Russell
went flrtf'put on her walking bat diluents.
“A sad, riiratrreenble part of the oity
to come’to,” she raid, elevating at'ho
same time her shirts and patrician nose,
us they wended their nay to the region
of tenement bouses, groceries and small
thread and needle stores that stretched
westward, not far from the palatial huh-
sions of Fifth Avenue itself.
“Yet people live here, Helena.”
“Yes, aud I suppose they like it.—
Why don’t they go West? I’d send them
there if I wus government, whether they 1
would or not.”
“Then ’tis fortunate that you are not
government,” drvlv observed Mr. Rus
sell.
“This is the number, I be'ieve. Hal
loo! my little man,” to a dirty-faced ur
chin paddling ia the gutter, “does >» s.
Bridget Maloney live fiere?”
Muster Maloney picked up his ears.
“It’s my mother,” “he suidjun’ its ift
the basement you’ll find her.”
And with a twist of his bristly bead
in the direction indicated, ho dived onoe
more into the gutter.
Mr. Russell, with Miss Helena austere*
lv by, tapped once at tho door, twice,
three times, before Mrs. Maloney’s fine
contralto voice shouted out:
“Come in, whoever you be, and don’t
stand there kuockiu’ the door down—
Och, an’ I beg your pardon. I did’nt
know tiiat it was *ke quality.”
But Engtno Russell blood still in the
doorway, his eyes glued to the sceue that
met his gaze—Minuie Akerly, in buff cal
ico drees and white apron, ironing dili
gently away, with a pile of snowy shirt*
on her left hand, and a basket of
sprinkled linen on her right. And Min
nie herself, colored like a “ red rose” for
a minute.
“ Why am I ashamed ? she resolutely
asked herself. “ Am I doing something
wrong ? I won’t be such a tool !”
So with this doughty resolution in herr
mind, she glanced calmly up, the pink
shadows still glowing on her cheeks.
“Good afternoon, Mr. Bussell,'* sh#
said calmly.
And Eagene stammeringly introduced
her to bis sister, who had stood Judi
ciously eyeing the whole scene.
“It’s the gentleman a wantin’ of liis
shirts, an’ sure they’re not douo yet,”
cried bluudertng Bridget.
“But they will be soon,” said Minnie;
“I’m on the last one now—if Mr. Rus
sell will sit down.and wait a few minutes.”
“You, Miss Akerly, ironing my shirts?"
“Even s >,” Minnie answered. “The
truth is, Mr. Russell, we are poor; arri
although ironing shirts is not so genteel
an occupation as giving music lessons or
making wax flowers, I am glad to earn a
little money in any way. 1 believe those
shirts will give satisfaction,”* aud she
smilingly g!an :ed on the completed pile.
Miss Helena came forward with her
gray eyes iuirly luminous with satisfac
tion.
“ My dear,” said she, “ I couldn’t have
done tnem better mysexf, and that’s say
ing a good deal.”
Aud she nodded, in an approving way,
at her brother.
Minnie Akerly went home with the
dollar aud u half in her pocket, the most
triumphant Utile capitalist you ever be
held.
“ I don’t think Mr. Russell was very
much shocked,” she said to herself, “for
he said he would keep my secret from
papa, and promised to call thiseveniug.”
And three months afterward, when
Eugene Russell was married to Minnie
Akerly, he wore one of tho very shirts
that had beeu washed and ironed by the
bride’s fair hands.
“I could uofc be half so proud of it,”
he said, ‘ it it were fashioned out of
cloth of gold.”
ALEXANDER H. S'.EPUENS BEFORE A
GEORGIA AUDIENCE.
“Married!” said Eagene Russell,
linve no disposition to discuss what cuniary advantage of the Southern
may be considered by thousands of
good men are the errors of the past,
which we now say we hope to see
buried with the past. What we de
sire above all things political, is the
complete restoration of the unity and
harmony of the Democratic party
upon purely Democratic principles,
and to this end our best efforts shall
be directed.
S3T The printer made us say in
yesterday’s Sun that “a fancied secu
rity sometimes lulls us into danger,
when proper ‘negligence’ would se
cure us against all harm.*’ Of course
we wrote it “v.gilance.”
Two negroes discussed woman’.-s Lve
with their fists. Result—one dead ana
the other ia jail.
people if they would avail themselves
of the opportunity of grasping so
powerful a monopoly in both the pro
duction and manufacture of cotton.
We have labor sufficient for both.
There is idle labor enough in almost
any town of ordinary size in Georgia
to spin up all the cotton produced in
the county in which such town is lo
cated, which might thus be converted
niSCELLASKUl’S NEWS
— There are 23,600,000 cattle in the
United States.
— Dubuque claims to nave unproved
$800,000 worth this season.
— England imported last year poultry
and game to the value of a million.
— Tt-e total deposits iu the savings
banks of Massachusetts are $184,797,-
313 92.
—It is es'imated that 7,000,000 hogs
will bo packed this year in the United
tjtftteS
— Salt Lake City expended over $860,-
000 last year iu the erection of new
buildings.
— Prentice said that Daniel was the
only man ever lionized withont growing
vain about it.
' — The balance cf trade against the
United States this year was in round
uumoers $118,000,000.
— The horses in the United States are
valued at. six hundred aud sixty millions
of dollars.
— Somebody proposes, sarcastically, to
cnauge the name of our Capital to White
Washing-ton.
— A clergyman ore ached on “ Noah
decisive test. Members are disposed to meditatively. “And why shouldn 11 get
wait the response of the country and
their constituents before deciding on
their future conduot.
©bilnarn.
Died, oi meningitis, in CrawforJville, on the
morning of the 20th instant, Maooic A. Williams,
daughter of David A. and LncUU William.. Maggie
was a bright and amiable child, in the tenth year of
her age—foil of hope and promise to her doting pa
rents. She was their youngest and their darling.
A few days ago ahe waa all life and joy; now heir
silvery voice is hushed forever!
■‘Deeth liea on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of the fluid.
"Oh. what a shadow o’er the heart is flung
When peala the requiem of the loved and young."
into productive taker instead of re- “
maining merely creatures consuming
the labor of the producing classes.
Everv idle hand that is put to work
adds'to the material w ealth of the
country. It is these producing ele
ments that give prosperity, happiness
and progress to a people.
As we have said, there are enough
COTTON ON A CRUISE.
The recent high river washed
Ws are pained to annonuce the death,
in De Soto county, Mi*s.fcsippi, of Moses
D. Johnston and Leroy Jounston, son-
in-law and grandson of onr esteemed
fellow townsman, Maj. W. A. Cobb. Mr.
Johnston was lor many yea-s a resident
of Tboma8tou—moved to Miller county
abont 1862, thence to Mississippi tne
ZOth of January last, where he died «>n j Cassell.
married, Helena ? Is not a man all the
happier for uniting his fortune vnth some
truly congenial soul ?”
“Young ladies now-a-days are all so
trashy and trivial” said Mr. Russel’s ma
ture, strong-minded sister, sewing dili
gently away on red flannel shirts for the
poor.
“ Most young ladies, I grant yon,” ob
served Eagene, “but not all, Helena.’
“ Ami you are the very one to be im
posed upon and blinded.” said Miss Hel
ena Russell, who had uever yet left off
regarding her Drother as a very small
boy, who required admonishing and
looking after iu every respect.
“ Now you are judging unfairly, Hel
ena. You never have seen Minnie
Akerly.
•*Iuaveheard of her though,” said
Helena Russell, drvly. “ She waltzes,
and Rings, and plays croquet.
“ Is any of the three a capital crime,
Helena ?” laughingly demanded Eugene.
Nonsense—you know tnat isn’t what
A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette gives tho annexed graphic ac
count of a public appearance and reop
tion of Alexander H. Stephens :
“Alexander H. Stephens emerged from
the Kimball House wrapped up in three
overcoats and a horse blanket. The
handle with a white head sticking out
was put in a carriage right end op, and
propped in position by two crutches.
The bundle then coughed, and said it
was all right, and away the carriage
rolled to the Capitol. The bundle was
then taken out, unrolled, till Stephens
was found. Leaning ou two etout men*
with two more carrying each a crutch, the
procession entered the House of Rep
resentatives. The building was packeQ
as I never saw it before. Ladies, poli
ticians, members of Ihe Legislature,
citizens, niggers and children had all
turned out. When Stephens appeared,
there went up a shoot. It was long and
load, and was followed by another loader
and longer. Then, when that died out,
another started and ran its coarse.
Mr. Stephens bowed acknowledge
ments as well as he could, considering
that two stout men made a sort of moving
straight jacket. When he arose in tbo
speaker’s stand, the bright light falling
upon his pale, thin face and white head,
there was more cheering and applause.
It was plain that Stephens bad the hearts
of the people. His crusade against the
Cincinnati platform has not diminished,
his popularity, so tar as one might judge
from the di-monsiration on Saturday
night. He spoke in an erect position,
supported tiy a crutch under his left arm.
His voice is clear aud shrill, and not a
word waa lost in any part of the hall un
less it was drowned by applause. I was
in an extreme corner of the hail, wedged
in among a rnass of humanity, and I
know that each word came aitb mar
vellous distinctness, although bus vMce
did not seem to be unduly eltvated.
And this weak and wasted skeleton of a
man spoke thus lor more than twe
hours.”
thirteen bales of eott /n, the property of
some planter living np the river, name
unkuown. Two bales were caught near
the city and three brought ashore at Sand
Bar Ferry. The balance of the fleet
have prolxably reacht-u th" Atlantic ocean
by this time.—Augusta Chronicle.
the 26th day of the same month, aged 53
years. Ho was a member of the Metho
dist E. Churc , South, and we trust bad.
through grace, aept on his wnire rolxe,
and was ready for the sudden change.
His wile, wuo stopp- d
pay perhaps the last
father, although telegraphed tdid not
arrive in time to see ln-r husband die.
Their son, Leroy, died a ’e* data :ii»er
bis father, ageu 26 y< uia.— Tlitmunlan
Herald.
Summary Justice in cauada
Kingston, Ont., February 18. — tru
Friday last two men working in a simnty
in the township of Abbinger had a fight,
and the man who got worsted rose in the
night and fatally stabbed his opponent
v t> . I, , . . . with a butcher-knife. The rest of the
I mean. Bn it would be l great d et d | gbau tvmen seized the murderer, formed
more to tne point if she couid 6ew on j a 4 arv tiied him, and hanged him to a
bu .Vo DS , aD< * ir T n Bblrt « , , r i wee till dead, then cut down and Luried
Perhaps she can, suggested Mr. Twelve of the lynching party were
! arrested yesterday, ana taken to Belle-
I vilie for trial.
Is it. likelv ?” contemp*uously »e-
torted Miss Helena!
“Suppos** we declare a truce npou the
snb ect,” said her brother. “It is quite
plain we uever shall agree ou it; aud in
on t: e wav, i * j the meantime, whit do yon s»v to going
eit ;o her aged aro(M) d with iue to see Mrs. M«do.>ey?”
“Mrs. Maloney ! Oh th- iinndreas.
Yea, I suppose we ent to see her about
th* summer’s washing. Bat is it neces
sary tor me to go mvself ?”
“It would be better, I suppoee.”
Beware ot Gum Candy—At legal Poison
ing ofTwn Boys.
St. Lours, Mo., February 18.—Mra.
Louisa Beckham was arrested in this
city to-day on a charge of poisoning two
boys, Willie and Fred. Hudson, with
a deadly poison. The evidence is en
tirely cucum*tantial, but ib considered
strong. Mrs. Beckham is believed to bs
insane.