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The Bainbridge Weekly Democrat.
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Volume 4.
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 1875.
Numbef 48.
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The New York Tribune says Senator
Morton “seems to have forgotten the mis-
t-rable failure of the ‘outrage’ campaign;
V dwells upon the disloyalty of the South
and the return of Confederate officers to
Congress as though he really hoped to
lUrm the people with a sense of over
whelming peril. He forgets that his par
ty went to the people last year on just
Pitch sn appeal, and was disastrously de
feated on it. lie could hardly have made
»worse blunder than in undertaking at
this time to reargue the issue upon which
his party took an adverse verdict at the
hst election. No new evidence lias been
discovered, and the people are tired of
the story.”
The Cincinnati Knpuirer covers the
laaaphic account of the San Francisco
Flint failure with the following head
[ lines:
nmo Up—Here’s Your Only Solid
I Basis—'The Great California Gold Dank
Knocked Ilighur’n a Kite—And the
| Mounters Go About tho Streets «Worn-
Iit; for Some of the “Money That
thinks”—Yes, Verily, They Would
|Gladly Inflate Their Pockets With
' Irredeemable Bags” or “National
I Lies,” But I'hey Can’t. Get —The
I Ingest Sugar Importing House in the
I United States Fails for Two Millions—
I And Still the Glnriua Radienl Resump-
jt'iin Hall Goes Gnyly Rolling On •
A Terrible Lesson-
Ralston is dead. Last week lie was
WPlKised to be worth $20,000,000. Yes-
May he was known to be a pauper. To
morrow h« will till a suicide’s grave. The
touguifieout mansion where he entertained
• hundred guests is without a master, and
**1 the millions he had amassed have slip
ped through his lingers. It is the legiti
mate close of the life of a great speculator.
He threw all, from day to day,on the turn
of a die, and when the end came he had
“thing more to live for. There is no use
J'o moralize. But it may be asked just
re.' Docs it pay ?—N. Y. Com. Adver-
BhfT.
Conciliation-
At a recent meeting of the Norfolk (Ya.)
Artillery Blues, Gen. Wm. F. Bar-
p, commandant of Fortress Monroe, was
pWnimously elected an honorary member
company, in acknowledging the
P®pliment, Gen. Barry expresses his
ph appreciation of the honor conferred
f *ell as of the motives which inspired
action of the Blues. He indulges the
f l'c that the bitter memories of the late
F‘ r ‘l war may speedily pass into oblivion,
^concludes : “As brother artillerymen
Ms hope and pray that our guns may
^ Ter again be ‘pointed’ at each other,
rather, should dire necessity ever
Un draw us upon the field of battle,
Ay we fee] assured that our ‘guidons’
r ; ll ** Arrayed upon the same line and
?uns pointed only at a common ene-
A Prison Horror-
L ich ael Connolly, a prisoner in the
^kweli Island (New York) penitentiary
r ! ° Un d in a dying condition on Friday
; min ?. -mdexpired in a few moments.
" lamination of the body discovered
. Wealvs and bruises on his hips,
p 1 ers and legs. A discharged prison-
'titled that he had seen Deputy War-
‘ ^rvenhoven and Keeper Geary beat
“ a °fl.y in a brutal manner. On one oc-
|ir> i. <uar - v beat him with the handle of
L en s * 10y cl which had a sharp pro-
TJ At the first stroke Connol-
' “Oh, my God ! Geary,
, C murdered me.” Nevertheless,
t mrnsc he was again knocked down
v . t ice P° r - Another time, in Owen's
* C V <jeilr y ordered Connolly to be
j { B ,n ’° l * le iron cistern in which the
^^uh-,1 out their slop buckets. He
I ihi„ K <>u bis head and was severe
LJ**. Tlie
Conolly,
* “arrow
THE DEAD CR0ESU3-
How Ralston Climbed the Golden
Ladder-
From the Chicago Times of 28th ult.]
William U. Ralston, the late presi
dent of the Bank of California, was a
man who had, in a comparatively brief
period, attained the summit of financial
greatness, and was looked upon as one
of the leading bankers of America. His
success had been won not so much by
careful calculation as by brilliant coups
in the world of money, by dash, by bold
and unparalleled strokes He was a man
who risked all to gain his point, and
who, by native shrewdness which gave
him an insight into men and the stock
operations of the day. was enabled to
carry his point at all hazards. lie was
a man of perhaps 50 years of age, and
his early life was not cnaracterized by
any remarkable examples of enterprise
such as his later years developed. Com
ing up as he did from an humble walk,
he pushedjiiinself along by his inherent
genius until he finally grew to be one
ot the acknowledged money-kings of
tho world. Throughout bis career,
which was at least, peculiarly varied
in its character Mr. Ralston has oc
cupied a position which has has been a
prrfeet anomaly, and which has defied
a thorough and successful analysis.
HIS FIRST STEPS
As far back as 1855 and 1856, ims
mediately subsequent to the argonautic
days which filled the Pacific slope with
a race of adventuresome and daring men
he is found in the mines of Southern
California, in the Amador district,
eking out an uncertain existence, either
as an employe of one of the many min
ing companies which abounded there at
that period, or soon afterward livin
comparative ease as a superintendent-
Shortly afterward and, when the for
tunes of the new State had been estab
lished, and he had won for himself a
degree of independence, he is to be
traced to San Francisco, where he se
emed the position of a purser upon a
steamer owned by the Pacific Mail
Company and plying between the Gol
den State and the bay of Panama. It
was here that lie began to'placc his feet
with firmness upon the rouuds of the
ladder which was destined to lift him
su^sciruiyutJ-*ptq a summit of financial
greatness. 1 " \ iTT 1 iTe"as purser was one
‘Put
under
deputy warden once
knocking him over a
Tue inhuman officials have
arrest.
which.whi'e altogether not congenial to
him, at least threw 1 him into contact
with the leading business men of the
Pacific coast, and it was not many years
before he found himself called upou to
exchange the rather precarious life of
an ocean purser for the more active po
sition of manager of a bank away over
in the Sierra Nevada mountains, in the
then comparatively new mining camp
of Virginia City, Nevada. The dis
covery of the Comstock ledge, with its
score of paying lodes, had sounded the
key-note for an almost unparalleled
stampede for the new mining district.
Virginia City grew like a mushroom in
a night. From sagebush plains and
alkali desert suddenly sprung up a min-
i.ig center wbioh has held to its name
and prosperity ever since with an almost
unpr ecedented tenacity.
THE BANK OF CALIFORNIA.
was already an institution in the slope,
and under the direction of careful man
agers had achieved at least an enviable
reputation. It was at this juncture, in
1859 or I860, that Ralston was invited
by the directors of the back to leave his
ways of water and take to the more ar
duous and skillful duties of running a
bank in this new mountain town.
It was in Virginia City that Ralston
became acquainted with Sharon and
Jones, who were then inexperienced
superintendents of mines, working upon
a salary, and with nothiug more than
this except a great deal of presumption.
They built the Reno and Virginia City
railroad, or rather the Bank of Califor
nia did, which was a monopoly; the
bank reached out its tentacles and grasp
ed everything financially and commer
cially. It established branches in every
city. It put its money into corpora
tions. It finally got hold of the quick
silver mines, in which business Ralston
had once been engaged, and soon mo
nopolized the trade. In short, the in
stitution began to raise its impregnable
head of monopoly.
Ralston at this time became generally
known as a business man,and his social
life was at the same time a matter of
commcn < amongst the people af the
slope. He was^known as the man who
set all conventionalities at defiance. He
cared nothing for public opinion. He
lived only for W. C- Ralston and the
pleasures which that individual experi
enced. He outraged what little there
wa of decency in the mining camp,and
lived a life of wild and almost utter
recklessness. He maintained fast women
within a stone’s throw of his home,
where lived his wife and children, and
lavished money and gquis upon aban
doned characters in sufficient sums to
make scores independent for life. Mo
ney came and went like the steady pro
fuse flow of a deep stream. He did
nothing by piecemeal. In conjunction
with his companions he scattered wealth
with the lavish hand of a modern Cr«-
sus. A circumstance which happened
during his sojourn in Virginia City
will serve to illustrate as well as could
anything else the prevailing characte
ristics of this strange man. John
McCullough, the tragedian, was in the
height of his glory on the coast. He
made a visit to Nevada, and had pTayed
several nights in Virginia City to crow
ded houses. He was a special favorite
of Ralston, Sharon, and a' couple of
others. McCullough had closed his en
gagement and was ready to leave the
city. His trunks were packed and at
the stage station ready to make their
journey to Reno. It was in the early
evening, and after business hours,when
Ralston and a few others conceived the
idea that it would be a capital idea that
have McCul’ough play once mere, so
they sent word to hjpi that they wanted
him to appear that night in the “Gla
diator.” John sent back word that it
was impossible; he was prepared to go
to San Francisco, and he could not de
lay his journey. This would not do ;
play he must. Messengers were sent to
bring his baggage back, to light up the
theatre and make everything ready.
The theatre was a small affair,and would
not seat more than 700 or 800 people.
McCullough saw that it would not do
to refuse the men who had been his
best patrons and bankers, and so he
made money. There was no doorkeeper
that night. 4t was free to all; but there
• was a man in the box-offied who sold
tickets, simply for the sake of appear
ances It was a grand blow out, got
ten up by the bank people. The re
ceipts that night amounted to the un
precedented figure of $13,200, and it
was all contributed by three or four
men. most conspicuous among whom
was W. C. Ralston. In short it was a
grand drunk, and money was as free as
the air of heaven. The plan pursued
was for all concerned to go to the ticket
office and buy $500 worth of tickets
each, after which all would adjourn to a
wine cellar and wager a basket of wine
that each one could tear his tickets up
in the shortest time. When they had
concluded this game the box-office was
out of tickets, there was $13,200 in the
till, Mr. McCullough had finished the
play, the floor was strewn with tickets,
and the whole party was as drunk as
men can well get. This in short, was
the grand incentive which ruled the
nature of W. C. Ralston.
1870, but work upon it was suspended for
eighteen months for want of an appropria
tion. In its construction of common brick
there were used 18,261,232, rubble ma
sonry 4,409 cubic feet; cement, common
and Portland, 45,860 barrels; iron,cast and
wrought, 11,524,469 pounds; corrugated
iron on roof 26 5421 square feet; furring
and lathing 168,144 square feet; lumber
2,451,061 feet; mahogony and walnut 69,-
282 feet; molding, &c., 10;549 feet; mag
netic wire 3| miles,weighing 1,320 pounds
speaking-tubes 40,000 feet; electric enun-
ciators 60, one of which is 12 f§ct square;
.tubing 39,901 superficial feet; .heating
pipes 40 miles; water-tanks 4, hold 60,000
gallons. The building covers 1£ acres of
ground, its cubic contents are 7,850,000
feet and the space occupied by the offices
and record-rooms is 7i acres.
THE GREAT SWIM-
Captain Webb Successfully Crosses
the English Channel.
HOW RALSTON EXPANDED.
“■ After the PXciwntent of Virginia
City, Ralston went to San Francisco
and took charge of the bank as cashier.
That he was guccesstul there can be
none to deny. Under the management
of the officers under his regime the bank
was one of the most successful institu
tions on the continent. It was looked
upou as a bank that was as firm as the
adamantine hills which guard the Pa
cific slope. It was found in every en
terprise that was inaugurated. It ram-
nified into nearly every town in the
State of California. In short, the bank
wis the State; it controlled everything
—finances, industries, politics. It was
one gigantic combination, a great
moneyed ring.
Ralston here began to expand his ex
travagances. His residence at San Ma
teo was one of the most elegant resi
donees on the slope. It was more like
a palace than an humble dwelling •• . it
entertained people in all the magnifi
cence of an Arabia dream. Its owner
lived like a king. He kept his relays
of horses on the road between the city
and his country house, and traveled in
all the style of an Oriental prince. It
was the resort of distinguished visitors
from the coast, and was maintained
with money which was set aside for
that especial purpose by the bank of
California. Many a one who has been
entertained beneath this hospitable roof
has closed his eyes and wondered how
long this style of extravagance could
possibly last.
Not only was Ralston eftravagant in
his manner of entertainments, but he
scattered money v
WITH A LAVISH HAND
wherever it was asked, and often wheie
it was least expected. The bank became
identified with many interests which
were considered extravagant. The min
ing adventures of Nevada were profuse
and almost unparalleled ; it owned mills
and controlled stocks to an almost un
heard of degree. Finally, it lightened
its hand upon the mining stocks of the
coast and played with them at will. It
built the great hotel of the Pacific ; it
ruled the States; it made and unmade
Senators and Governors ; it did just
about as it pleased; and in it and above
it all was distinguishable the hand and
connivance of the man Ralston.
It would seem that to every game
there must come, sooner or later, a day
of reckoning, and it reached Ralston
when, after the failure of the great
money center of the Golden State, and
the precipitation of the avalanche of
disaster, lie stepped off the wharf on
Forth beach yesterday afternoon and
ended his great and peculiar career.
Removal of the Heir York Post Office-
At ten o’clock on Saturday night the
old Post Office in New York, on Nassau
street, was deserted and the new one was
thrown open to the public. The whole
work of removal occupied bnt four hours,
seven hundred men being engaged in the
removal. The new office was begun in
A London dispatch announces that
Captain Webb, who started on his sec-
cond attempt to swim the English
channel, from Dover to Calais, on Tues
day, at one o’clock in the afternoon, ar-
river at the latter place on Wednesday
at noon, after being in the water twenty-
two hours and forty three minutes,near
ly three hours longer than the time in
which he calculated to accomplish the
journey. His progress is thus report
ed :
At half-past five P. m., he was pro
gressing at the rate of twenty sir ikes &
minute, the sea and weather being fa
vorable. lie was furnished with ale
and beef tea, aud*again at 8 p. m. with
beef tea and beer. After that he rest
ed on his back a while. At nine o’clock
he became troubled with seaweed, and
at eleven he took a draught of codliver
oil. When the moon rose at one in the
morning some brandy and tea were ad
ministered to him. Webb declaring at
the same time that the swim across was
“a safe thing.” At three A. M. he
took some coffee. At this time the tide
turned northward, and Webb appeared
exhausted. His tiaiuer stripped and
held himself in readinees to go to
Webb’s assistance,but Webb laughingly
declined the proffered aid. At this
time ho was still keeping up a pace of
twenty strokes per minute. Fears were
enteffaiued that the northern tide drift
would throw Webb abreast of Calais
sands, as the result proved.
At 4 o’clock a. M , and four miles
further progress, daylight broke. Webb
was drowsy, and coffee and brandy were
given him. At half past five Riden’s
buoys were in sight and their position
located. At seven o’clock a westerly
breeze sprung up and a chopping sea
followed, making the prospect extreme
ly discouraging, but the indomitable
pluck of the swimmer never faltered —
A small skiff kept on the weather side
of Webb, who was now swimming
slowly and had just taken of a brandy
straight. Every twenty minutes sound
ings were taken at eight and ten
fathoms. Steamers came out from Ca
lais and steamed alongside the gallant
swimmer, on the weather side, the sea
breaking all the while. Cheer upon
cheer went up, and Webb seemed to feel
their inspiring influence. He laid a
direct course for Calais Sands, west
ward of the pier, and at half past
ten, A, M., was in shallow water. At
forty minutes past ton, A. M., Webb
stood on French soil, tired of course,
but very shortly recovered. He was
conveyed to a hotel in a carriage, rub
bed down,put to bed, and at one o’clock
when the Herald correspondent left lor
Dover, Webb was tranquilly asleep, aud
the doctors had no fears of any serious
consequences Webb naked beats
Boynton armored about two hours. The
wildest excitement prevails in London,
the press announce the swim the great
est physical feat of the century.
pons, fired, but the posse was out of
range and no one was injured. The
fire was returned by the posse at long
range, a .d eight of the negroes were
killed, several were wounded, and twen
ty-five of them taken prisoners. The
negroes fled confusedly, leaving their
dead and wounded in the hands of the
posse.
The scene of the difficulty was in
Noxubee county, which lies on the Ala
bama line at about the longitudinal cen
ter of the State. The fight occurred at
a little hamlet six miles from Macon
The latter place is the county seat, and
a station on the Mobile and Ohio Road
To make any political capital out of
this sanguinary affair the Inter-Ocean
of the North will be compelled to resort
exclusively to their imaginative facul
ties for facts Their lios would be out
of white cloth as no white man was
concerned in the original difficulty at
New Hope Church, nor was any white
Democrat concerned in the battle as
far as is known. "The Sheriff of Ncxu
bee is a Radical. The negroes who
swore out the. warrants are Radicals
and the whole matter was strictly
family affair, and a deplorable one at
that.—Atlanta Constitution.
The Negro Riot in Noxubee County.
. Mississippi.
The Associated Press report of the
troubles at New Hop» Church was both
tardy and erroneous. Before . we re
ceived the dispatch in question, the
Vicksburg paper containing a special
had arrived here, and so had the Mo
bile Register, with a long and clear ac
count of the bloody difficulty.
It did not grow out of a quarrel be
tween a white man and a negro, as sta
ted in the press dispatch. No white
men were connected in it. except pos
sibly as part of a posse summoned by
the sheriff of the county, who is a Rad
ical. There was a quarrel of some
kind between the negroes at New Hope
Church. One section of them sent a
party into Macon, the county seat, to
swear out warrants against the other
party. All concerned were Radicals,
but there does not seem to have been
anything of a political nature in the
quarrel- At least nothing of that kind
had been developed at the latest ac
counts.
The sheriff, knowing the desperate
character of the men he was called up
on to arrest, summoned a posse, armed
them with Winchester rifles, and pro
ceeded to the church to make the ar
rests. When the posse came in sight,
the negroes, who were armed with shot
guns, pistols ana other murderous wea.
A Sharp Trick-
The Hawkinsville Dispatch says a
year or two ago “several hundred col
ored people left Pulaski and Houston
counties for Arkansas. A prominent
planter of the latter county lost by this
emigration movemeut nearly all the la
borers on his plantation. He regret
ted, most of all, the loss of a favorite
hand, who couldn’t be persuaded or
hired to remain. A few days ago he
received a letter from this favorite
freedman, stating that he was on his
way back from Arkansas to hiB old
home, and that all his co-laborers were
with him; that they had reached At
lanta, and their money was exhaused
He requested his old “boss” to see the
colored people in the neighborhood,
and raise a hundred and fifty dollars
and forward it to him by express, that
he might be enabled to bring on his
family and the balance of the party.
The planter immediately went to work
and raised $100 among the colored
people, and very willingly added the
other $50 from his own purse. He
hastened to the express office to send off
the money, but on arriving there, he
took another notion. fie*} as so anx
ious to see his old colored friend from
Arkansas and hear his tale of woe, that
he (ihe planter) took the cars and went
on to Atlanta to meet him. Imagine
the planter’s surprise and mortification
on reaching Atlanta to find that the
letter had been written by “one-eyed”
Jim Baskin, the notorious negro forger
who was sent from Macon to the peni
tentiary chain-gang some three or four
months ago, for forging drafts and or
ders on planters of Houston county.
Tampering With the Mails-
Washington, August 31.—The
Postmaster General has addressed the
tollowing letter to th i proprietors of
Maine Standard, in answer to their
complaint that that paper h d been
tampered with in the mails;
Gentlemen: Your favor of the 28th
inst. is at hand and noted. Yon state
that the'Maine Standard, addressed to
regular subscribers, has been opened in
the Post Offices and Republican cam
paign documents folded inside and de
livered to subscribers, and ask if such
conduct is to be tolerated by this De
partment. In reply I have to say that
such action is in direct violation of the
rules of the Department, of decency
and of the proprieties of official posi
tion. If you will present to this De
partment the proof that any officer or
employe has been guilty of the offence
charged, be shall be at once dismissed
from the service, and I hereby request
you to do so, in order that immediate
action may be taken.
Very respectfully, yours,
Marshal Jewell.
all our decaying navy, has the most inter
esting and historic associations. The Con
stitution, “Old Ironsides, as she is better
known, is feebly outlined in the shattered
hulk whose ghostly ribs, set against the
shadows of the Navy Yard, is all that re
mains of the once proud frigate which did
such gatiant service against the Algerine
pirates in 1804 and the British in 1812
and which, down to the beginning of the
war, was in active service in the United
States marine. The Constitution was built
at Boston in 1797. She is known for her
staunchness and seaworthiness;for her gal
leajLengagemcnt in tho harbor of Tripoli
for the victory over the “Guerriere; her
capture of the Java, and the many prizes
she took during the war of 1812, and for
the more thart three score years of active
service she did as a member of our
navy. For several years she has lain neg
lected at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, a
thing of scorn, while the flashy gunboats
and untrustworthy moniters and iron-clads
of modern construction have engaged the
attention of the public, and wrested from
her the people’s affections.
A Terrible Child Murder in Ohio-
Gustave Humber, of Jamestown,
Greene county, Ohio, while intoxicated
made an attempt to kill his wife. She
fled across the street to the House of a
neighbor. Hnmber followed and made
an unsuccessful effort to get in the
house by breaking the window. He
then threatened to return to his house
and kill the child, which was about
eighteen months old, thinking the
threat would induce his wife to come,
bnt failing to have the desired effect he
went to his house, procured a table-
knife, sharpened it on the stove, took
the infant from tbe arms of bis little
girl, twelve years old, laid it upon the
floor and deliberately cut its throat from
ear to ear. He then threw the child
and knife on the bed, and went baik
and told his wife what be bad done.
He was afterwards arrested. He still
regrets he did not kill bis wife.
‘•Old Ironsides’’
An excursionist down the Delaware
River from Philadelphia can scarcely fail
to notice, as he passes the naval station,
an old and battered hulk, snngly ensconc
ed upon one of the several docks of the
yard. The hoik in question belongs to
one of the finest vessels that ever floated
the Stars and Stripes, and one which, of
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad—A Sag
gestion-
Editor Morning Neics :
In looking over your very interesting
and instructive tabic of the trade and
commerce of Savannah, we find the fol
lowing : “The trade that comes to our
city by the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad is
the life blood of our city, and brings not
only Southern Georgia and Florida, even
to the Everglades, to us, while the trade
along the Central Railroad is heavy for
groceries, yet not near the quantity of
dry goods and notions are shipped over it
as over the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad.
If such is the fact, and no one disputes
it, we believe, it is quite suggestive of one
or two things.^ First, that the merchants
of Savannah have cultivated the acquain
tance of the people and sought their trade,
or that Savannah, being their natural out
let, Ihey come here because they have no
other point to go to. The truth is, both
have combined to bring trac|e to the city.
If, then, the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad
is the life blood of our city as to trade,
does it not stand to reason that if the road
could bo extended into Alabama to Pol
lard, that it would send a still stronger
stream of trade to our city. That the
door to trade would be thrown open;
tnaVa larger field would be presented to
our merchants to canvass, and more trade
and business would be the result.
A celebrated writer has said : “High
office is like a pyramid, only two kinds
of animals reach the summit: reptiles
and eagles,” which, in plain words, mean
sycophants and men of genius and talents.
One begs Ins way by low acts ; the other
rises by natural force of intellect. Let
us apply the i lea to trade. Wealth is ob
tained by the low arts of cheating, or
fraud, or by the shrewd, cunning, sharp
tricks of an unscrupulous operator ; or it
is made by honest energy, industry and
wise calculations, combined with bioad,
liberal and expansive ideas as to increas
ing and inducing trade. New York, Chi
cago, St. Louis, Baltimore and even At
lanta understands well the best means to
entice trade. There is none of your pic
ayune policies and pound foolishness in
their calculators. We have got tiie goods,
say they ; we want the customers, and if
they won’t come we will go after them ;
if they have not got the means or facili
ties of getting to our market, we will help
give it to them. Hence, railroads and
canals are built by cities, for without
them there is no trade. 1
Savannah has been well paid for her
investment in the Atlantic and Gulf Rail
road. It has been her life blood as to
trade, and if the stock never pays a dol
lar to her, yet she is a great gainer by
what she gave in aiding in its construc
tion. \ Our idea is this : Let our citizens
such as are able, take more stock in it,
and invite English capitalists to invest.
The Savannah Branch of the Internation
al Chamber of Commerce and Mississippi
Valley Society is organized for just such
purposes. If the Atlantic and Gulf Rail
road is worth so much to Savannah, let
us, as a wise people, make it worth more.
“Jupiter helps those who first try to help
themselves,” and we would not call upon
foreign capital to help us unless we show
onr faith by helping ourselves. The ex
tension of the road to Pollard is a neces
sity, and the road can be made to pay
when it is really finished. The objective
point is Pollard, and there aid it to go.
No sensible man expects to reap a full
crop from a half cultivated field. How
many important inventions have been lost
to the world just for a little more capital
to have perfected them. Savannah as a
city could well afford for the interest of
trade, for the building up of the city, for
the commercial importance it would give
her, to step forward with more aid. Do
it, however, in conjuction with other aid,
and so as to make the completion of the
road a success beyond peradventure.
The Savannah Branch of the Mississip
pi Valley Society can be made a power
ful auxiliary in the building up of Savan
nah’s interest if her citizens will but take
proper interest in the subject. Indiffer
ence never accomplishes anything ; good
wishes but gaseous expressions ; hut co
operation and material aid something sub
stantial, real and effective.
R. M. O.
What Tilton is Doing.
[Fromthe Golden Age.]
People frequently ask us, in person or
by letter, what Mr. Tilton is doing ? Not
having seen him for a long time, and be
ing sadly deficient in the faculty of evolv
ing information’ from our interior con
sciousness, we assailed that gentleman
with an impertinent interrogation, to
which he returned the following charac
teristic reply, which, though marked “pri
vate," we give for the benefit of those
whom it may concern :
No. 174 Livingston Street, )
, August 23, 1875. f
Dear Mr. Clarke : You ask how I
spend my time ? The-itcms are these—
each day’s history repeating itself. I.
Out of bed at 6 o’clock in the morning—
the workingman’s hour. II. A cup of
coffee and a crust of bread—nothing more.
III. Feed my sparrows at the window
sill of my study—those tiniest gamins of
the street who flock to my window, not
suspecting that I’m a dangerous charac
ter. IV. Five solid hours at my writing
desk—a fair day’s work for the brain.
V. Breakfast at noon. VI. In the af
ternoon, according as the weather vane of
humor points, I go somewhere with Flor
ence, or take a long walk by myself, or
rummage among books, or receive friends.
VII. These summer evenings are gener
ally softened and melted away by Flor
ence and her piano—and I listen and weep
and thank God for my daughter. VIII.
The odd moments are put to use in pick
ing up the threads of old studies where I
threw them down a year ago. You who
know the interruptions incidental to a
newspaper office, will envy mo my mam-
ng solitude, into which no intruder dares
o break—except Gust at present) a little
kitten that climbs up to my work-table
and coils herself asleep round my ink
stand. Hastily yours,
Theodore Tilton.
An Indelicate Pocketbook.
The Louisville Ledger says: “Yester
day afternoon about 4 o’clock a married
lady residing op Green street, between
Floyd and Preston, was standing at her
gate looking at the passers by, when she
suddenly threw up her hands and scream
ed, exclaiming that a spider was in her
bosom. A gentleman passing by, as well
as a.large number of other persons, were
attracted by Ike lady’s distress. She call
ed to the gentleman imploring him to kill
the spider. The putting of one’s hand iff*
a lady’s bosom is a very delicate affair,
and flic gentleman, prompted by an ex
tremely fine sense of decorum and pro
priety, refused to put his had where the
insect was, hut seized hold of the place
where it wqp thought to be, and held it
tight until the lady’s husband came up.
When that gentleman arrived he imme
diately tore the clothing from his wife’s
breqst, and instead of finding a poisonous
insect, there was nothing to be seen but
small pocketbook, which, by some ac
cident, had slipped into that quarter. The
gentleman who had tried to kill’ the spi
der went away very much out of humor.
Correct-
The Wellington Chronicle, ‘Grant’s
wit,' says:
“It,was an insult to the North to invite
Jefferson Davis to deliver the address, but
we will not say Mr. Davis insulted the
North accepting the invitation. As
for the South being offended by his trans
ition, that is ail folly, and our Lynch
burg friend strains the matter to arrive at
any such conclusion. Jefferson Davis and
the South are not identical.”
Tiie Chronicle little knows the temper,
and hearts, and manhood of the Southern
people, when it assumes to speak thus for
them.—Jeffersoh Davis is the South, the
representative of Southern principle, the
Christ bearing the cross of -the Southern
cause, the embodiment of Southern senti
ment, of Southern chivalry qpd of South
ern honor; and as such he was insulted.
It was not man, but the representative
against which the venom of these “loil”
devils supported. And as such, any South
ern man with a Southern heart will resent
ft.—Common wealth Hendd.
A Fortune in a Feather Bed-
Mrs. McGreavy, of Brooklyn, was dis
contented with a feather bed which she
had recently bought, and exploring it
Saturday for the disturbing element,
found a small, bard package, which she
threw out of the window. It was picked
up by an inquisitive youngsier of the
house ot O’Malley, neighbors, who took
it to his father to open. O’Malley senior
did so, when out rolled a lot of gold dou-
ble-egles and $700 in currency. It was a
rich strike to O’Malley, who liberally
treated his friends and returned the bag
to the exasperated Mrs. McGreavy, whose
husband very soon caused the arrest of
O’Malley for grand larceny.
David Stewart, of Webster N. H., nearly
ninety-one years old, never saw a train of
cars till TaAday last when he took a ride
by rail u> Concord, though he has for some
years lived within three and a half miles of
a railroad. On getting into the ears he ex
pressed great surprise that there should be
so many people on board the train, saying
he did not know so many were in the habit
of riding that way. His last previous visit
to Concord was thirty years ago, and he haa
never been more than forty milen from home.
He hag raised corn on the same'twO acres of
land every year but two for the past half
century, and has never been siek,-
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