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Newspaper Page TextPUBLISHED BY ^NCOCK dTBEILLY, Volume 22. DIVOTXD TO HEWS, POLITICS AES G3NEBAL PBOOBESS—jHESPENEEHT IN ALL THINOS. TE R M 8 : [ Two Dollars a Year PAYABLE W ADVANCE. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AlPRIL 23. 1875. Number 10. Jbc ?» nrttt |U *cock A Happy Host on High. II KILLY. W «- A GAINES. ri 1JW ' ,F Kt’BKCHUTIOM: |S i Ti en> Year, AnTAHcr. "fa r Aiivcnitiai. • .-t insertion, fl Ou mrn nion, 50 , !N . «t Minion type, solid, oonati- ..,-t 'h*« contracted for will l* :.«•« epecirviu* tbj rl ti i*c mu rtcd will |>e or>n- •nd r liargc-d for acrord* 0S( d p’.arrw will be v^ulfc: ra’r*. Professional Caros. Hawkins & Hawkins, ITTOHNKV8 AT LAW, [bere’aa, a happy bom* oa high, lb-; oiid this rale of woe, *Tw a land supremely bright. Will mar the bring heart. Where immortal glories crown Tl*e royal King of king*. Wlu re ibo auti will ne'er go down, TTcrniUee, fountain spring*. t home lor the aoul. Satuiday Night. How many a kiss has been given— —how many a curse—how many a many a look—how many a COOIt db CHlI&r*. ITTONEY ^V r r LAW. AMMtlCUH. GKO HO 11. ry 11.1. practice in the Conntiee of Macon, [»«•• Ji , i «;part 1 , ..i r National u/nk. B. P. HOLLIS. torno y nt Unt Fort & McCleskey, " Equity ,< „/ /..nr awl Solicitor* AMKItU’L'H, GEORGIA. in the Knprei care* in Rank. S.liiimpcrt IVkitt and King’s re«—ho promise has teen broken—how many loved one lowered into the narrow chain* her—h’>w many a babe has gone from earth to heaven—how many a little cra dle stands silent now which last Satur. Jav night held the rarest treasure of the heart week is a life. A week *n a history, cirks events of sorrow and gladness, which people never heed. Go home to your family, erring wan. derer! Go home to those you love, man. oil and give one night to the joys and comforts fast flying by. l^ave your books, complex figures, ur dingy office—your busy shop! Rest with those you love, for heaven ouly r.« what the next Saturday night uiay bring you! Forget the world of caro aud battles of life which have furrowed the Draw close around the family hearth. Saturday night has awaited •our coming in sadness, in tears, and ileticc. Go home to those you love, did us you bask iu the loved presence, uid meet and return the embrace ot •our heart’s pets, strive to he a better nan and bless heaven for giving his hildren ho dear a .‘•topping-stone in the ivemf the eternal, as Saturday N A. SMITH, AMIUUT? GEORGIA. omtK ot Snmtt-r and im! in Circuit Conrt ol tto U>-puU'. f.b*5tf. MERREL CALLAWAY, Attorney at Law, AMERICUH, OA. mirk* A Wheatley’* Stc Guerry & Son, Attoruoyw at Imx ■.I <’ I TORS IN EQUITY tTTII.I. practice in the Superior C 1 • Sumter. fcl.U-y. Macon. Dooly, I ! Georgia and in Ibo Cniltd W.' Felder and Hon corner Dr. W. A. GREENE, G UATFFIT. f*»r tlio liU-ral patn nage bestow- * '1 upon him durng tlio pa«t * !l «•••!.t-nue to ccnrn tho*e ik-siring Dr. W. J. REESE, T ENDERS hi# Professional Rerrice* to |-c.>) Icof Amrri good STOCK of Dr.UOH. togeth. •'h Gt!ll>E> HEEDS, Ac.. Ac. Next door ieffl*l.| A Co He would lik Dr. G. F. COOPER, Will give bis KN TIR K T I ME Practice of Medicine, and solicit* a share 'tall* left the Drug *s : rrr Eldridgc, or hi* r«»ideu< tw.rtlirt Female College, will receive prompt Dr. J. B. HINKLE. Pli.VMloinn nntl Hurgeoti C ALLS left at the Drag Store of Dr. £. J. E) «lri.|-cor at hi* real! A. M«\wel'a),will r Dr. S. B. HAWKINS. •'ffY OFFICE at Dr. EMridga's Drug 8n ■ ( l R 0 . ~ * s the Wrong Lay.—A certain Liucoln countv huckster, who deals principally in butter and poultry, inva riably asks a little more for those luxu- than any of his ncighbois. When asked his reason for so doing, he always replies after this fashion : Well, sir, that’s an extra quality 0! butter. It was made by my wife’s a *>uc of the best housekeepers it .State. Those chicken? are a superior le, sir. They were raised by my wife's aunt, sir, and what she 'doesn't know about raising chickens ain't worth uwing.” • This peculiarity has been remarked by his customers, and they are in the habit of commenting on it quite fre quently behind his back. The other day a very solemn-looking individual cn tered the store, and walking up to a bas ket of eggs, inquired: ••What do you ask for eggs ?” “Fifteen cent? a dozen was the bland p'j. ••Fifteen cents ?” exclaimed the me! icboly customer. ‘‘Why I can buy icui anywhere at ten—but maybe your ife’s aunt laid these eggs ?” Thu owner of the hen-fruit hung his head, looked thoughtful for a moment, and replied : Take ’em along at ten !” A Strange Story. Some years ago there lived in Virginia beautiful and accomplished youuj. Udy—a member of one of the oldest and best families in that State. She was r he reigning belle in the society in which uoved. In course of time she mar a young lawyer of the highest re -pectability, both as regards talents and family connection?. In due time they had a eon born to them. They were very happy. The lawyer, in tbo course of his busi ness transactions, became in some way >r another entangled in a quarrel with * orother lawyer. A duel was the result In the contest the husband was killed I’ho wife became inconsolable. A severe fit of sickuess followed. When she re covered, the only thing to lavish the whole affections of her heart upon war her son. Her entire attention was given to him. After a year or two she was surround ed by sn immense number of admirers ind several made proposals of marriage She declined them all. Her heart was true to her first and only love. At last, many of her admirers importuned her to marry them, offering her fortune, station, everything that would be likely to win a woman’s heart, but all of no avail. She plied to them that she could not give them her hand without her affection; her heart was with the buried dead. The widow found that these approach es were made to her so often and so estly that she withdrew herself from society as the only means of obtaining anything like quietness; but even the letters would annoy her. So she de termined to get out of the way of society entirely and seclude herself in some re tired spot. She did not care where she went if ?he could only obtain quietnes- and enjoy the pleasure of training and cultivating her boy’s mind and have hi* rietv. I society. 1 noble little ■xclui fellow. Well, after looking about for a place where absolute seclusion could be obtaiu- d and be unknown, and the climate would he congenial, she determined up n " Florida. So she removed to a retired <QT Tuts day, says the New York World of the 9th. ie the tenth anniver sary of the surrender of General Robert E. Lee and the armies of the Confed eracy at Appomattox, Va. A decade -aa elapsed since the end of llis great eivil war, and how near to a real peace between the sections baa the party which baa been in control of tbe General Gov ernment permitted ua to come? It wa> bnt tbe other day in Connecticut tliat Republican orators were traversing the State maligning tbe Southern people, reviving tbe partisnu cries and catch- words and war-cries of years ago, and doing their best to D&h tbe passions and fears of their bearers into the old an happy condition. A decade baa gone, and from tbo Potomac to tbe Rio Grande 1 here is not a hostile arm raised against 'the Union, and a most unparalleled pe.ee snd quietude prevails; and yet there are Republican party managers striving to keep alive the bate of tbe bad past and •tir tbe conntry up to renewed turmoil. When will this end? Must another ten years be devoted to constructing recon struction that tbe Republican party may have an excuse to live? There was some thing in the tidings from Connecticut on Monday night that was a response to these questions. According to Its own confession, the Republican party, after ten years of power, has failed to restore a nnion of hands and hearts. The Dem ocracy will be commissioned to assume the task now, and we ventnre to say that they will accomplish it within twenty- fonr hoars after taking possession of the Government. A decade ot Democratic rule will bring back the prosperity, con tentment aud fraternity which the Ameri can people have uot known since they trusted their fortuned in (he keeping of the politicians of the Republican party. THE COMPROMISE Cf BtAXOER — EXCITE MBS* IM HEW ORLEANS—PIXCIIBACK AND BIS PACTION—AM APPEAL TO the courts THE PHOSPECTS, The Currency. spot about a mile or two from Ocala, where she found a small hut already built and suited to her rcqniremet ts. Sho purchased it i.nd there lived for tome time, when unhappily, her boy was taken sick and died, aud was buried near her house. She planted an aeorn near by, that was found after death in his pocket. It has now grown to be a large Alone in the world, without a single soul to converse with, she fretted and pined her life away, her only consolation seeing in her communions with her Mak er. She prayed for peace and obtained it. She had no domestic servant to wait ujwn her. but cooked her own meals, etc. kopi.es’ Failings.—A painter eugaged upon a likeness of Alexan der the Great. In one ot bis great bat tles, Alexander had receiv.d an ugly sear on the side of his face. The artist was desirous of giving a correct lik ness of the monarch, and at the same time desirous of hiding the scar. It was a difficult t.vk. At length he hit upon a happy expedient, lie painted him in a reflective attitude, his hand placed against his head, while his finger cov ered the scar. The best men are not without their failings—tho scars—hut do not dwell upon them. In speaking of them to others adopt the painter’s ex pedient, and let the finger of love be placed upon the sear. Occasionally she would soo persons approach her little home, and not wish- seen would retire to a small cave near by, where she could watch the movements of strangers until they were gone, when she would conic out and take possession of her shanty. One day she walked into Ocala for the purpose of obtaining some medicine at tho drug store. She was closely hooded aud disguised. There was u gcutlcman in the town, however, whom she recognized as au old suitor. She immediately left, and was lost to sight quickly. The gentleman saw the eyes; bethought he kmw them—their influ ence in the past had kept him awake many a night. He was at first stag gered with the thought that it might be her. Indeed, he was almost paralyzed, for lie was single, and remained so for her sake. When he recovered his sen ses sufficiently to know what he was about, he turned into the street to look for her; but she was gone, and no one could tell him anything about her, or in what direction she had gone. He searched the country aU around, but his efforts were fruitless. At last lie had t< give up the pursuit. He was very uo happy. Well, the lady lived for many years afterward, still staying at the samu place. At last she found that her health was giving way; that the hardship she had ty) undergo—living i As showing, says tho Baltimore Sun, how abanrd was tbe cry during the late Congress of a want of currency in the country, b* cause certain districts could not command their apportioned shate, have only to »ee now how the famous finance measure works which Congress passed, pretendcdly in tho interest of specie paymeuta. just before it adjourned. Among other features the law allows a sort of free banking, and that banka surrender to the treasury nucli currency 1 not needed by them. In June of last year bauks in tbe Eastern and Middlo States had S23o.0U0.000 in reney; tliev had surrendered 80,000.000 and taken the same amount in new reney. In nil the re*t of the country, tho Ktatcs which were alhged to be deficient in currency, there wus Inst .Tune $119,000,000 currency in the bank?, and having surrendered $11,288,000 of thiis amount they Lave taken hot 84.312,000 new currency. From which it will l seen that while the aggregate note circr lation of the whole country has been diminished since last Jnne by ovci millions of dollars, the entire ntnouut of redaction was in those States where the deficiency was alleged to be greatest and where there was loudest demand for free banking. In advocacy of tho passage of these laws it will be remembered that many Congressmen declared that the West “had not money enough to go ronnd," and many dreadful events prophesied unless the currency equalized. All of which tends to show that average CoDgreesmen are not inor dinately wise as to the theory of car- renev. Dr. W. M. HARDWICK H aving rc*am«tl tl*o Practice of Medicine. »R<-n>h:a acrvicea to his old friend* and ivrora 11. J to the pajing public centrally. s l* -ul alt'-nti »n will uo ziveti to all Chronic , »rti. uUrly tboaaof Female*. He will for ami'treat ordinary cases at hie Ofliee at tho Drag 8t«»r* of Davenport k •' “'il.. !le*:d«Mice—Starkville atreot, ‘ T- M. I urlow. '• t.STu Dr. B J. HEAD, tbe ctnxeoa of thc I Mirroumling r jimtry. Thankful lor past • will Kire hi* entire attration to tbe liia profession, ltd there for* feela aa- 1 r- he will sire um ofhia profra "> of riving satisfaction. 11# lias for » mad* the study and treatment cf chronic diM-aat-e a *]*-.*ialty, particu’ariy those diyeaaee l-foliar t<. female*, and elain to have discov- » r y l r< mcdk>. and treatment pecoliarly adapt- * 1 to the cure of thh elaaa at disease. Omee at the Drag store of Dr. W. J, Beeae.— L-ridenc* on the East aide of public aqoar*. In lii- Lone* formerly occupied by Mr*. McCree. M.iVf.tn I). P. HOLLOWAY, DENTIST, pEIlFORUR all operations , . Hath, and in-ert* artifl — •*te*t and moat improved methods. Gold FiLMXoa t 1 00 to I 800 Airnncni.TttTi, Frix Mm W 00 to 800 00 1 rriJI OR Lciwri ftm lRAOto ISOM t^xliOparativ* and Mwnhsntnal urntutry, ha r- -nUra aood and pert*factory work mill D. P. HOLLOWAY. The barber who told us about it dldu’t seem to like it. A poor exile of Erin, hungry aud cold, entered his shop yesterday, ate, with the brush, a cup of lather, dug out the snap ball at the bot tom of the cup, ato that, and sat down :o warm his feet. Then nn astonished •b-erver mustered bis scattered wits and asked, “IIow did you like your lunch ?” Soys l’at, “Tho custard was illegaot, but my soul, I b’lave the egg was a little too long in the wathcr.” Iiir- A Wilkinson county man put tar on his horse to catch the fellow who rode him at night, and went out next morning to find his grandson sitting on the animal, blowing his hands to keep them warm, and tryine to detach his Sunday pants from the scat which he had uuwillingly occupied siocc the early part of the night. ild and rud> a condition—necessitated her making 1 confidant of somebody, so as to obtain help. She called in the assistance of an honest, quiet, colored woman—Aunt Folly Fudge—who helped her to comforts and did chores for her. last she became sick and confined to her bed. Folly faithfully nursed her, and at leogth the lady died. She told Polly her history, suppress ing her real name, and tjjld her to get her buried in the grave beside her darling boy, under the oak tree that she had planted near the cave, and that she was to be buried in her wedding dress—: beautiful white satin one—and on her head the wreath she wore on the casion of her marriage. Faithful Poilv attended to matters as she was told, and Mrs. Neville, for that was the name the lady called herself, gave to Folly all her money, which was 8400, and also her old clothes. £0 rests within a mile or two of Ocala in ono of the hammocks the last mortal remains of tho poor, broken-hearted widow. Tho relatives and friends will never know her end or her burial-place. A subscriber to a paper died a few days ago, leaving four years’ sub scription unpaid. The editor appeared nt the grave when tho lid was being screwed down the last time, and pul in the coffin a palm-leaf fan, a linen coat and a thermometer, which ia only used in warm elimatca. tST A plumber had an Iriah boy in his employ, and having occaaion to use a piece of line, ordered him to get one twelve inches square. “Yea, air, aaid Pat, “twelve inches square, but how long?” larit is aaid that monogram gait era of great beauty are made in the Weal. Some of them have inscrip tion*. “Exeelaior” is the moat popular motto yet used. LOUISIANA. New York, April 13.—A New Orleans special says itia believed the compromise will be oompleted on Wednesday, but <«ome uneasiness ia occasioned by a re mark of Wheeler concerning the status of five members admitted by the Hahn Legislatnre. Tbe Legislature will only -it five days and pais uo political bills,— Hahu opposes the adjustment, but the best men of both parties favor it CmcAoo, April 13.— A Time* special from Now Orleans aaya there is conaid -ruble ogitation there touching the near ipproack ot the beginning of the extra tension of the Legislature, and several of tbe Radicals, composed of discarded members, led by Piuchback, have come out with a show of hands as it they in tended to make trouble. A careful re view of tbe political ^nation develop an excited state of affoni, bat with ap pearances indicating tho overthrow of Pinchback and his faction. All the Con servative members, sixtv-eight iu nnm her, are in the city. All the Republicans will be here to-morrow. Wheeler nr- 1 to-night to give his personal atten- to the consmnatiou of his adjusted iilans. It is thought that the Repnbli cans who ore to-day left out by the party will on Wednesday take their seats and keep them nntil driven from them.— There will be something of a row at tlie opening of the session. There is sorae talk of an appeal to the court to enj iin the completion of an adjustment New Oju.*akh, April 13.—Excitemont ms high concerning tbe adjustment oh proposed by Wheeler. West and Pinch- back are laboring a-shlnonsly to defeat it but mod of the Republicans stand by Kellogg iu its favor. Per contra, the Wilts party of Cu:i>>ervaUveA will not be bound by it. In lliiA c ise extremes have The special session convenes at uoou to-morrow. Tho result is uot yet m certainty, though the Dwight Liepub- lican State Central Committee reenw- snd Wheeler's plan with but one dh senting vote. Wheeler is hero laboring for tho adoption of the plan. New Orleans, April 14.—The Legisla ture met at uoou to-day. It was the niosl rderly session which has been held for many years. The Conservative membeis were sworn in, uud a resolution wa* adopted in the Uonsu referring the chums of those included in the uwsrd to the Committee on Elections, which will re port to-morrow. Roth parties seem to accept the award without opposition, making the compromise a success. rUPEUS MEiSAUE. Kellogg sent an elaborate message to the Legislature to-day. The following are some of its principal points: “The occasion of this cxtraordiusry session marks u new. till, 1 trust, better era in the history t)f our State. Tho history of Louimana since its incorporation into theUoim, a* summarized iu tho tncs- rages of successive Governors frem Gov Claiborne to recent times, has been un happily prolifio of race antagonism uud THE 3 SEAT BONANZA DISCOVERED A t LAST. IT IS LOCATED IN BANKS COURTS. While in Homer last week we saw a portion of the skeleton of an Indian, which has been recently exbnmed in the Hollingsworth neighborhood, and con nected with which there is a curious his tory. Some five or six years ago, Capt. I. W. Alexander, while on a Visit to Ala bama, learned from au undo residing there, who is superintendent of the county poor-hottae, that a very aged Spanish woman who uied in that institu tion aud who had resided among the Chepjkee Indians iu Georgia, had fre quently told him of the fabulous richness and great extent of a KILTER MINE located in whut is now Banks county. That is, she so accurately described the location that Capt. A. felt confident that it was in tho neighborhood of Hollings worth. After kis return to Georgia determined to buut for this wonderful mine—which he did, from time to time, as opportunity offered, but without soo- ;ess, until recently his long search was rewarded by finding what ho supposed to be the identical spot described. He com menced AN EXCAVATION, where it seemed, from tho large amount of broken quartz, that mining had been carried ou before. After removing the small loose rocks to tbe depth of ultout two feet, he Recovered a h^mAn skeleton, which he believed to be that of nn Iudi- sn, from the beads and other trinkets found buried will', it. Tho quurlz, or whatever it is, appears to be rich iu some mineral, which is be lieved to be silver. The Rupply is said to be iuexlfaiistible and beyond compu tation—t lies r being exposed to view MILLIONS OF TONS 1 If it is silver, it is the richest and most extensive mine in tbe world. Tbe great Nevada “bonauz V is a mere minnow in comparison with this whale !—A then* Watchman Talk about the Beecher Trial. Special lo Cincinnati Commercial.] There ia uo doubt that Beecher's testi mony ha* | reduced a deep impression, aud it is certain thut kis partisansconrid- it conclusive. Home peoplo who doubtful ure now suthfied of his iuno cence; other people, though not thus eatisfieJ, have been brought to the con clusion that his accusers ure a bad lot; others, though nut convinced of a black mailiug conspiracy iu the worst souse, admit that the troubles were put to pe cuniary uses ; aud others aeo abundant reason to concede Beecher’s own claim that lie acted like u fool. Tho evidence which is most satisfactory scctioual jealousies and disorders. Though second to uo State iu natural advautagea cf climate, soil and products, it him fallen far behind other less favor ed States iu tbe development of its re sources and in the cultivation of that bomegeniely of feeling and iutereat without which uo community can be permanently prosperous. The causes off this lack of progress and unity in the post have been as varied as the ills thut have resnlteiL Some are beyond Un paid of legislation. They can only be medied by tho actinu of time"* to Beecher’s adherents, ami most founding to many of his adversaries, are his owu direct denials of guilt and his positive denial of all the iuculpatory barges of implications of kis leadiug ac cusers. There are not many people who find it easy to believe that Beecher Las the witnef a chair for six days per ; uring himself right and left nearly a mud red times. It is preposterous to say that the opposing parties arc mistaken as to tbo facts about which they swear in such utterly contradictory wuys. Nobody who has read tho evidence throughout, indulge in any such explanations. If Beecher is not a wholesale pcrjnrer, then the testimony of Tilton ami the two Moultons were black with perjury. There getting over that. poonle who go moving present prejudices and erasing the memory of past traditions. Others are the result <f tbe peculiar charoctei of tbo population of the State nud the prevailing diversities of race, religion and language. Others agsiD, and these by no means tho least considerable, hare sprung from tbe improvident and op pressive Legislatures of late years, in- JuTho Sutro tunnel, often mentiou i connection with the subject of Ne vada mining, is an unfinished work of unappreciated magnitude. The famous Comstock lode ia iu a fissure several miles long and of unknown depth. Over 8200,000.000 worth of silver and gold ha* been taken out of it. To reach the rich deposits sbafta are sank all along the , and somo of them are 2,000 feet deep. The lowest mines are the most productive, but tbo air in them is sc that tho miners can only work on the system of five minutes’ labor, followed by fifteen of rest. This makes mining there very uncomfortable and expensive. Mr. Sutro’s plan is to run a tunnel from the foot of tho mountain, meeting the lodo at right angles, and then following it, the total length lieing about eight miles. This would furui*h a handier outlet for tho ore, besides draining and veatilating the mines. The tuunel.which now aboit a third done, is fourteen ifeet w ide by ten liigh.and will cost about eight millions. Tne company will get a royalty* of two dollars a ton from the miners, and the ownership of nay min eral lodes which the tunnel may strike tbe way to the Comstock vein. eluding that of 1865 aud 1867, which have managed to subordinate the mute rial iuterests of tho State to the en forcement of partisan purposes and the peenniary aggrandizement of individu al*. It would serve no good pnrposo to review in detail the events of our re- cent history. Tin* unfortunate past, with whatever mistakes and wrongs may have been committed on cither side, is before yon. Tho consequence of these mistakes and wrongs, more eloquent than any language I could use, are also before you. It is your privilege to cor rect, remedy or, at least, alleviate them anil, more important still, to offer guar antees that events shall not again occur. After a political contest, the length of charge Beecher with falsification, aud to say that he is deserving of leas credit, under tho circumstances, tl.nn his three accusers aud the other incriminatory evi dence. But there ure thing* yet to be brought out which will throw light oa tho relative veracity of the opposing par ties. It is a mistuke to suppose that all the pious people of Brooklyn arc parti sans of Beecher and all tbe wicked peo ple hia accusers. One day lost week, after Beecher had delivered bis most no table evidence, an acquaintance of mine was thrown into the company of a gronp of Brooklyn clergymen, headed by Dr. Van Dyke, aud waa surprised to find the whole lot disbelieved in Beecher. After leaving the clerical group, my aequain tanee found himself in a gambling house, filled with blacklegs, who were, with one exception, noisy supporters of Beecher. Tbcso are actual fuels. Pkrjubt.—The Herald, of Monday, commeuting on tho Beecher trial, says: The evidence given by Mr. Beecher daring tbe past week has called the at tention of the public to the increasing growth of tho crime of perjury. It has boen discussed in legal circles for some time post, and several of our most emi nent judges have been heard to remark $9* There is n bit of keen irony in this retort by tbe New York Herald ’Beecher, in hia Friday night address, had a word to ray abort tho ejiton of religious papers. Ho represented them as very contemptible creatures and their piety as bypocri*y. Several religious ed itora appear in the great trial, and their record sustains bis opinion. Beecher, perhaps, regrets that ho himself ever wrote for tho religious press.** prevalent, and that hardly a day pi in conrt without some instance coming np where a witness had perjured himself. It is very plain to the ordinary reader of the testimony in the Beecher-Tilton trial that perjury baa been committed, not b> retail bat by wholesale, and when this memorable cause ia decided there will and bitterness of which have keen unparalleled, it policy which has at last Iwn adopted which I think should have iVen tried at first, and which 1 trust will afford nt immedinte and satisfactory solusiou of the difficulties that have beset us foi years, and entailed misfortune and dis tress upoe the people. It is a most hope fut sign, in my opiniou, when, as now, citizens of all political purtics dined to take the management of this affair into their own bauds, and, sinking p.irty aims, unite to Advance the general g'od.*’ .Regarding the State revenues and tlicir collection and disbursement, the Governor expresses the opinion that the present system is too cumbersome and expensive nnd urjust, aud should lie radically changed. The Governor tbeu details the changes desired, aud gives a resume of Stuto ficaucus, which show a reduction in the State debt of 85,065,026 since 1873. executive vetoes. The Governor to-day vetoed the new city charter bill, stating that he did so at request of a committtce of tbe Mer- It is related of a certain minister, who was noted for bit long sermons with many divisions, that one day, when be advancing among hia team, be reach* ed at length a resting place in hia dis course. when, panting to take breath, be a*ked the question, “And what shall I say more V A voice from the congre ' - • flay bof the ehants’ Exchange, Cotton Excbauge and Chamber of Commerce, who were pre paring city measures themselves He also vetoed au act legalizing a large amount of indebtedness said to be dae the State charitable institution ; also, an set authorizing tlie parish of Pointe Coupe to issue bonds, on the ground that such act wanld encourage extrava gance and increase the parish debt; also an act depriving tbe Democratic city sheriff of hia fees, on the ground that the redactions made in the payment for feed ing prisoners were excessive and would work public injury. •pi*! lliug to read tbe evidence of Mesars. Beecher, Moulton and Tilton, and compare tbe one with the other.— They only agree in the moat trivial and unimportant points, and. in most instan ces, are in direot contradiction of one an other. $9* Tbo Washington Chronicle ia of the opinion that it ia probable **none of os will know nntil judgement day exactly who told tbe big lie in Brooklyn. Itia tbe moat bcsrily-draaaad lie in CLrieten- h. There’s a revolution coming acre, the fashion's critics say. The men'i trousers are swelling, and the women’i skirts are shriaking. It's just like hav ing both legs in ono pantaloon to wear the present fashion for ladiea. If this thing eontinneo the woman will be wear ing tbe breeebas in good earnest, and the despised petticoat will adorn tbe nether limbs of man. The new Spring i eon just v akars abend. walk. Verily, there are More of tbe Scandal. New York, April 14.—I foaud Mrs. Tilton in bed in the left hand room from the front door ; I informed her of the chargee her hnsband hail made against me. She was dressed in white. I do not know whether aho ha J retired for the night or not; sho‘ was ill and I suppose she had retired for tbe night, being con fined to her bed. I said 1 had jast come from an interview with her husband, aud he had made serious charges against me. When I uid he charged me with alienat ing her affections from him, she showed responsiveness, and shed tear?, which fell down her cheeks and by the move ment of her hands. 1 also uid ho charged me with creating distress and discord in his family, and asked her woe this so. She made no response. I uid he told me you had transferred yonr wifely affec tion to me. She had no response, aud the tears continued falling down her checks. When I told her of the improper ad vance and asked her if aha had told him so, and she bowed her head. I exposta lstcd with her and said, you know this is not true. I plied her on thrso charges and asked her how she conld have done such a thing. She uid, I could not help it; I was tired out with his persistence. He importuued and promised me. She then spoke of an interview in July she had with him. when he uid if she con fessed her alien lovers to him and be confessed his, they would get along bet ter and would be again in harmony. She asked me what she conld do. I said slic onght to write a retraction of these iharges. She said it might L>e used against her hutdiaud, and I aaid it could tot, but I would uot use it for my justi fication if this charge should bo used gainst me with tho church, or if there vus any trouble about it thereafter, male ing uo promise not to use it ia injuring her hnsband. I. at her request, got her pen, iuk aud paper, and she wrote. Af ter some conversation not pertaining to the matter, I left Wlu-u 1 went in *he appeared us ono dead. FI HR CMLPIIKN 11UUKED TO DEATH. About tight o'clock last evening the alarm of lire was souuded, tho number of the box iudicuting West Broad. Engines nnd the crowd hurried to the poiut desig nated. The fire was discovered to be in of the wooilen dwellings of tbe Minis property, on the corner of Fine and St. Gall streets, 'i he fiames had spread con siderably befoiu the engines arrived, and the cry was raised that there were two little children in tho burning building. Jored man by tho name of Jesse Stephens, after considerable effort, suc ceeded in breaking iu the door and forciug sd entrance. As soon as the door was thrown open the flames burst out, but this did not stop Jetse Stephens. He rushed through tho smoke nnd flames, reached tho bed, which was on fire, seized the clothes and all that wus iu them, and rushed out, but hot beforo ho was badly injured by the flames. In the bed clothes was the body of oueof tbe little children, who was most terribly burned, but was still alive. He was carried into u house by, and died shortly afterward*. At this time several streams were at play on the house, and by a judicious management of water the ie*t of the bnildmg was suved, which was hardly ex pected at firat, us all tho surrounding buildings aro of wood, and are as old nnd dry a* tinder; but sncli was the fortunate result, and in about half an hour from the first alarm all was quiet and nndt-r control. The buildings, us beforo stated, belong to the Minis estate, and were occupied by Rachael Wilkins, her daughter, Ellcna Smith, and two children of the latter, one about ten months old and tbe other about two years. Tho two women, it ap pears, had locked the hoaee and left tho two children in bed, with a kerosene lamp burning in the room, and gone to the exhibition at tbe Beach Institute, and several who live near by aay they herd something sounded like an -explosion, Moody and San key.—These two great revivalists, from Chicago, are now creat ing a great excitement in England. We append a synopsis of tho remarks of the former at a meeting in London : When God wanted an ark bnilt he called on one man to do it, instead of hundreds, and this man was a fool in the eyes of the world. The Lord did not send un army to bring I»rael ont of Egypt, but used a man who had been forgotten among bis people—a man slow *i, a stutterer. Enoch was no garded as ajool in his time; Nonh was the laughing stock of hi* day, and wo man l«» willing to be as fools in tbe sight of tho world, if we waut to be of tine to God. Joshua going aronnd tbe walls of Jericlio was an absurd sight How the London press would have come down upon a scene like that! Fancy the Archbishop of Canterbury going aiound Loudon blowing the ram’s horns 1 When the spirit of the Lord was on Samson he slew a thousand men with the jawbone of an ass. People were not willing to work in that waj in these days; they must have more polished instru ments. How ridiculous mast Gideon and hia men with their pitchers have looked. Yet every man stood in hia place, and they routed bis whole army. Elijah was fed by such unclean, contemp tible things as ravens ; and when be was sent away it wa* not to a palace, but to the 1 muse of u poor womau, who scarce ly had meal for herself. It was said this wa* an enlightened ege ; bat God was unchangeable. He still used base and contemptible things to effect his purpose. When he wauted a good book written he did uot call upon a philosopher, bnt a tinker, and the devil had hia match wbeu he got hold of John Bnnyan. Christ did not call around him the learn ed and the wise, but Galilean fishermen, and tbi< hardful of men shook the world. Evan before He need Baal He changed hia name to Paul the Little. London did not want eloquence, bnt Christ snd Him crucified. Let every man and woman spread the tidings of the salvation, and take the eity for God. When the chnreb, the pulpit, and tbe pew become of one mind, Christianity would be like a red hot ball rolling over the earth, and all the hoeta of death and hell would not be able to resist it. When General Grant was before Richmond, he which, without doubt, was the lamp and the origin of the fire. After the fire was over and the rafters hadooled sufficient ly to permit any one to walk ovet them, search was made and tho body of the other baby wa* found in tbo spot where the bed had stood. It was taken ont and removed to the houte where the body of tbe other child was. The scene that took place after the arrival of the mothi is ono that will not soon be forgotten by those who saw it.—Sav. Adcertiner, «4J [From tbe Philadelphia Telegraph.] The decretory of the Interior has ren- Society of tlio Methodist Episcopal Church possession of over 200 acres of laud at tho Dalles of the Colombia river, Wasco county, Oregon. The case cams to tho secretary on an appeal from an ad vene decision of tbe Commissioner of tbe General Land office. In rendering his decision Mr. Delano gives the history of the olsirn. Tbe Methodist Missionary society es tablished a station at tbf Dalles in 1836, and erected buildings, cleared and in closed a portion of the land, and uscu it os a farm. This, and three stations es tablished by tho American Board of Com- misdonors for Foreign Missions for re ligious work among the Indians, were, settlements in Eastern Oregon. They induced and wero tbe neudeus around which gathered a flood of emigration from the States that opened np that a Hon, overwhelmed British influence, and secured the Northwestern territory to this country. From 1834 until the mis sionaries were attacked and driven ont iu 1847 by the Indian*, the whole North western territory was held in jrint com pany by Great Britain and the United States, the boundary line not being set tled or defined.” The result of the con test as to which country should finally I Kisses* it “probably depended upon tbe fact which conld first settle it with emi grants." The agents of tho Hudson Bay Company aod tho Catholic priest* sent from Canada, gave their influence iu favor of the British, while the Methodist and American board missionaries suc ceeded in attracting “the tide of Ameri can emigration that turned tbe scale in favor of our government, resalting in the establishment of tho ‘provisional govern ment of Oregon,”’ which was wholly American. This government continued until tho territory of Oregon was created in 1848. Iu that year Congress pasted net confirming to. the missionary so cieties tracks of land in Oregon, not ex ceeding 600 acres, “now occupied,” etc. At tho timo of the passage of tho act the missionaries wero not residing on their claims, having been driven from them in December, 1817, by the Indians. Bnt the Dalles were actually held as a mis sionary st-it ion uutil those in charge were obliged to flee in reasonable fear of their lives. As soon as it was safe to do so tbe missionaries returned to the station, re newed their labors, and attempted to re establish their work, and their freqnent attempts to do so were only frustrated by the intervent ion of tho military authori ties, who had occupied the claim when the missionaries were forced to leave it and had built a fort oa the land. Subse quently a military reservation was crea ted by order of tbo President, which in cluded some 3?0 acres of the Methodist claim. The missionary society demand ed and obtained of the government $20,- 000 for this land. An noon os the act of 1843 could bo complied with, which wa* iu 1850, the boundaries of the Methodist Missionary Society’s claim were specifically designa ted, and Secretary Delano aaya the linee thns established shall be adopted. Cer tain citizens of the town of Dalles con tested tho claim of the society, bnt tbe Secretary thinks they have no reason for complaiut against au adverse decision, because “loug before the inception of their claims, tbo lines of tho mission property had been definitely fixed and indicated upon the face of the ground, made of pnblio record, and publication had thereof in tho newspapers published nearest the land. Tbo claim of the so ciety wa* notorious, and parties settling thereon nnd instituting claims thereto did so nt their peril.” The case has been pending at Washington for soveral years. The adverse decision of the Commission er of the general land-office was rendered in 1871. The tract of land which, by Secretary Delano’s decision, belongs to tho Methodist Missionary Society, in cludes the town of Dalles, and is estima ted to be worth about $1,000,000. •folm Mitchel’a Funeral. Tbe English papers bring the foil de tails of the funeral of John Mitchel. Aa already reported, the remains were re moved from Dromalane, the residence of the brother-in-law of the deceased, and deposited beside those of Lis father in the small cemetery set aside at Newry for interment of members cf the Re formed, or, as they are termed Unitarian Presbyterians in that locality. Within a few feet of hia grave stand tbe remains of the small church where bis father for many years addressed hit congregations, Murder of Col. Jonx R. Joxeo. From the Dawson Journal of Thursday, we learn that Col. John R. Jones, of Terrell county, bid been murdered by somo unknown persou nt hi* residence, on Tuesday night, tlie 13:b. A jury of inqaest was summoned on the next day, and after aclose and careful investigation rendered the following verdict: We, the undersigned jurors summoned by the Coroner of Terrell county to hold an inqnest over the dead body of John R. Jones, find opon examination that tho deceased came to his death on the 13th inst.,at hia residence, in Terrellconnty,by a gnn shot wound peuetrating the back part of his bead, fired by somo person from tbe ontside and through the win dow. while sitting in a rocking chair in bis room, which canned bis death instant ly; that aaid wound inflicted with tbe view of taking life, and without provocation, and waa therefore, r* we find, murder; that aaid gnn was held, used and fired by the hands of some person, to the jurors not positively known, bat under snch cir cumstances ns to create a well grounded supposition, that it was fired by David Wynn, colored, of said connty. 8. R. Weston, Foreman, O. B. Btppiiknh, W. W. Lrk, J. K. Prince, G. R. Hats, J. L. Griffin, J. A. Lauktejl and it is a coincidence that Mitchel’a fun eral oration should have been preached by a clergyman who, fifty years ago, was received into holy orders by Rev. Mr. Mitcbel, and who himself baptized the deceased five and-thirly years since.— Strange, too. that Mitcbel, after a quar ter of a century’s exile, should return to die within sight of the house where he was born, in tbe room that beheld his boyhood studies. All business in Newry was suspended. Tbe mills stopped work. The veosels at their flags hoisted at half- mast. There could have been scarcely less than 10,000 persona, many of whom wero women, lining the streets, windows which tbe mournful cortege [ The body wan.inclosed in a plain, pol ished oak coffin, and preeeeding the hearse sixteen Roman Catholio clergy men walked abreast; after them came sev eral Presbyterian clergymen and resi dents of the town and neighborhood, the trades marching four deep and finally some carriages. The funeral was moat impreseive by its rigid solemnity. Ax Irish Ghcnt Btoby.—A supernat ural incident U said to have occurred in the wildsof Kerry a abort time since. It eeems that a woman residing in G lea flash received a call from tbe spirit of her hus band, a “man of tbe farming class, dressed in a shroud and white stockings and gloves.” The fanner in white gloves stated that since his death, some months vised him to retreat, the order waa sent round, “Advenes in solid oolumn on tbe eneasy at daybreak.” Tbe result waa tbe end of tbe rebellion. Christians in London should advance in solid oolumn on the enemy, and wonld follow. Sheriff Christy arrested David Wynn and placed him in the connty jiiL A Little Hero.—Two children still and stark ou a snawy slope—tho girl wrapped ronnd in the coat of the boy, and both young faces fixed by frost in the calm repose of death—was tbe picture pre sented to the eyes of the wearied search ers near Monnt Ayre, Iowa, the other day. This winter cold baa taken many a life, hot none of the unfortunates wero found in so touching an attitude as this. It waa not in the beat of the conflict that the boy died; there was no rattling drum to stir hia thickening blood, nor com rade's eyes to mark hia heroio fall; noth ing to rouse hia yoong enthusiasm. Rat * Touted « the little cost folded carefully about the girlish form, and his own naked brew*, told of tbe qoiet courage and self-sacri fice with which be bad met the pitilem blast that blew as oold to him as her.— CkiOkotht f O.) ”— ere on eooonntof owing a sum of £15 to friendsof his, and begged of bis wife to give him the money. Tbe women in fall faith banded him £10. and promised to give Urn tbo rest in a few days if ha came for it. Mean while she went end told the priest the circumstances of tbo ease, and this gen tleman, seeing the fraud, made proper ar rangements for dealing with the poacher of the ecclesiastical manor. Whan tho ghoat, in complete burial costomo, ar rived for tbe bank note bo was at ones received by a couple of polioe, and proved, ea ghosts do in oar day, to bo a mere pretender. He will now have to answer for his mieooodoet beforo a mag istrate. a&*Tonsof postal card?. It ia aaid, aro destroyed ovary month throughout tbo United States, because tbo people write . their rncemge first, and then forget to address the card. Always write tho ad dress first; then the card will be sure to go, whether the message ia written or not.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Weekly Sumter republican. (Americus, Ga.) 18??-1889, April 23, 1875, Image 1