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(J/f- ^ WvJT AilSf & « -v'--:.. puuPHitioH & rauTtciL *on S. A. EOHOL8, ■ •orlatc KrtltoranH n«4l«»«t Man* C «* TEItMH OP f»U ,{rtC ; , ‘’i7 v 0?i DAILY and WKKKI-< l»*lljr—*la*l« Co g»'* 2 50 Twelre Month. »» 00 | Thr« Month.. - HU Month. 4 00 | On. Mouth Thm. Copies Fife " .. ci- h . ,nr D * , - , -*Tsr^sr*“ 1« 00 2 2 50 ■ j5 go | Single PH**- Waaklv-P" A-"—"' , " ' % no 1 Ten Coptwi 1* C Throe Copto. • J? Fit* Copie* 8 One Hurdrt Cop I Twenty Coplea.. ...28 Ot »inir Copies 65 00 125 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.