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| Volume 5
Weekly Democrat.
BAINBRIJGE, GEO
MARCH 9, 187fr
E. RUSSELL, • Proprietor.
( £ RC=SELL, • - • R ML JOHKSTOK,
EDITOR*.
UsaiDGE. Ga., March 9, 1876.
lulu-
: request of Col. Carey W. Styles.
It- ;reat pleasure in publishing the
rt ed card:
T<) MEXICAN VETERAKS.
Ravins been appotatOp^ Qaff. W'. 8.
kiker. President of the 'Association of
L„can Veterans for Georgia. Chairman
f.j,. Committee to collect unwritten in-
;. 3 K farts and matters of interest con-
,with the campaigns to the city of
,jztecs, I respectfully invite contribu-
ifrom vetrans everywhere, hut more
, i.illy from residing in South Caroll
ed Georgia. Short letters, detailing
j. nts, facts, circumstances and inter-
t ig events, personal and otherwise, will
iiankfully received, and carefully com-
.i! and printed for the Association.
|r,rorgiu and Carolina papers will please
py-
Caret W. Styles,
Albany, Ga.
among our neighbors
We trust that the little darling of the
nmh News may be able to keep his tem-
r in abeyance. Or, if he wants to get mad
t«t for the fun of it, he will not unbottle
iwrath in this direction. It’s right
-r.y to get mad sometimes, and we have
■a ibc day we enjoyed it next to an old-
-hioned candy pulling. But it is not
w With the present high price of
icon, and the general scarcity of change,
behooves every one to keep in good
mi'ir.
We think it highly probable that Mor-
n will indict IS. C. Wade for an infriuge-
nt on his “bloody shirt’’ patent. If we
n- on the jury to try the case, x the ver-
i would be “in accordance with facts.”
A- we have before remarked, if the
aters don’t plant all corn and no cotton,
t’V arc ruined, aud that without benefit
giwin.
t 1. Styles says those newspapers that
ilii't receive a bribe from Joe Brown for
i rryine through the Static Road Lease,
o not i vmcd “valuable.” According
:ut. the Bainbridok Democrat ain't
ill A relit.
C.in’t some clever gentleman of Quit-
ii 1 i.in Wade a clean shirt. The one
b is on is bloody, yes very bloody,
i .*pt. Triphtl is reported by the Savan-
!i New* a* about to marry. Wiien the
?Uin says so himself, and we have a
rate conversation with the minister
iv or two before, ami receive an intro-
lion to the intended bride and see her
flush up at mere mention of the name
Triplett, amj receive an invitation to
we 1 ling, and borrow a good suit of
tkes and attend, aud see the ccrcmouy
rformed, and shake hands with the
1 \ and see the preacher receive the
usual on such occasions, wc wil!
ieve it. Not before ; no, no, not until
a.
Billy Christopher, who accuses us of
'king some of his Rowell’s Newspaper
H porter, gives vent to his feelings thus :
Vfh.ii will it profit a man if he gains the
vbo’.r worlit an<l loses the girl he chokes
ap in the throat for®
Hob Harris is mad as thunder, because
lie couldn’t get that new county, and
' cusses” out the Legislature generally.
Hold your temper. Robert, you may
spu-cre into the Legislature yet, even if
if- not to represent a new county.
Brown, of the Camilla Enterprise, gives
this good advice: • All the papers are
wrangling over the Gubernatorial canvass.
Slop it, gentlemen, aud let’s all wait till
the convention meets.
The bachelors of Valdosta have met in
solemn conclave and passed resolutions
requiring each individual membei to mar
ry within a limit of three months.
Capt. U. G. Turner, of Quitman, is out
in a letter in answer to Wade’s tissue of
lies. The letter is exceedingly well-writ-
teu, and successfully refutes all that was
said by Wade- We think, however, that
the Captain made a great mistake in no.
being the dirty thing at all, for when a
high-toned gentleman is pitted against a
blackguard and unscrupulous liar, the
contest is unequal.
Quitman is sorely afflicted with the
mumps. The Reporter says there is
hardly a family in town without a case.
A school house in Dawson burned down
last week.
Kayton wishes it understood that he
will take twenty cents worth of country'
produce for the Gem for a year.
Farmers in Clay county are carrying
bacon aud lard to Fort Gains, for sale.
The Mucob Telegraph says the directors
of the ilacon and Brunswick Railroad
have rejected all bids made for its pur
chase or lease under three-eent advertise
ments.
The Newt says that there is no money
afloat about Albany and business is at a
dead-lock. The Nett* is the only estab
lishment that keeps up its enterprise, but
shall have to do one of three things—col-
tat more, print less or bosh
Home of the paper* say that it was a
tmk in the Senate.
Col. Marcellus E. Thornton, of Atlanta, 1
has undertaken to eat 30 partridges in 30
days, eating one partridge a day. If he
accomplishes the feat he gets $20. The
birds are to be prepared in any style he
may desire, and eaten at any time he
chooses, so he gets away with one a day.
Col. Thorn (On is to commence eating next
Monday, and the public are at liberty to
look on. In connection with his wager
the Courier reminds the Colonel of a
somewhat similar bet made by a French
man. The Frenchman had a large raw
oyster lying on the counter of a saloon.
Be bet a loafer standing by that he could
not swallow it and hold it. The loafer
promptly dropped it down his throat, and
demanded the money. “Ah,” said the
Frenchman, “you haf him down, but you
will not hold him. I haf already had him
down three times, and he haf come up
efery time.” It is not necessary to add
that he at once “come up” again.
The Reporter is severe on the young men
of Quitman. Listen : The average young
man of Quitman will run his sweetheart
three nights in the week escorting her to
church and free entertainments of every
kind that comes along, but whenever,
there is a show or festival where an ad
mittance fee is charged, the girls general
ly have to go along with the old man or
else stay at home.
The B. C. G. is just one year old.
They have a good dog law in Cuthbert.
The Messenger says: On last Saturday
night Mr. Taunton’s big black dogattack-
ed Mr. Ed McDonald Jr., in the public
street, when Ed killed him.
From an exchange: Croup may be
cured in a minute, and the remedy is
simply alum and sugar. The way to ac
complish the act is to take a knife or
grater and shave off in small particles
about a teaspoonful of alum, then mix it
with about twice its quantity of sugar, to
make palatable, and administer it as quick
as possible. Almost instantaneous relief
will follow.
Manager John T. Ford, is very compli
mentary to Atlanta, and says that its abili
ty to support a really first class show is
not second to any city in the South. At
lanta has given Mr. Booth the largest
house he has had since he left Baltimore.
The receipts for the first night there ran
to $2,700; Savannah for the w*ek averaged
$L 000 per night ; Charleston gave him
$8,4Uf), aud Richmond afiont $2,0u0.
The Quitman Reporter is on the subject
of balries again. It says that it may be
safely estimated that Quitman has at least
two hundred babies under two years of
age. Two gals and one boy is about the
way they run.
If something is not done to stop the
prowlers around Cuthbert, there won’t be
a chicken left in that town.
In the present Georgia House of Repre
sentatives there are 110 farmers, 24 law
yers, 15 merchants, 12 doctors, 6 preach
ers, 5 tailors, 2 editors, 1 tanner, 1 manu
facturer. The oldest member is 70 years
old, the youngest 27, the average age 42.
Tile oat crop through Southwest Geor
gia is very fine indeed.
Dawson Journal-: There is in Terrell
county a relic of 1776, which would at
tract attention if it were brought to the
gaze of the people. It is a powder horn
with a nicely engraved plate of silver
upon it bearing the time-honored words
of Patrick Henry, “Liberty or Death.”
It also hears the inscription of 1776, which
was written at Trenton, in Delaware, near
where 'Washington made tlie memorable
passage of the Delaware river.
This is a hard one from the Cuthbert
Messenger: One day last week, some
negro children were playing near a creek
in Quitman county, when an alligator
crawled out and swallowed one of the
children. Next da}' a party caught the
alligator, cut him open and took the little
negro out alive. This is no newspaper
lie, hut was reported to us by- a lawyer,
(and they never lie) who substantiates the
statement by two negroes who saw the
child.
Geneva Lamp: While Governor Smith
is not a candidate for re-election, it is
thought that the attacks upon his charac
ter, ra ide by over zealous friends of aspir
ing candidates, will force him to go before
the people and ask a vindication at their
hands. He’ll not resign to do this be it
understood. While there are several men
before the people,whom we would delight
to honor, still we would wish that Gov.
Smith would be re-elected because we
know of no man more capable, and none
with the experience he has. There is
only one reason given why he should not
again he elected, and that is that he has
served us already faithfully for four yeare.
Business men wiio never think of dismis
sing a servant because of his long serving,
will very strenuously urge this absurd ob
jection.
Atlanta correspondence of Savannah
New-* : E. C. Wade of Quitman, having
written to a Radical paper that Nick
Thompson, the negro who killed Capt.
Hunter, was "hung by n mob,” although
executed under the forms of law, I desire
to tell that malicious villifier of the good
people of Brooks county, 'hat he never
uttered a more foul batch of lies than are
contained in his letter. I have attended a
great manv executions, and as a reporter
have noticed particularly the arrangements
of the gallows and the conduct of the of
ficials in charge, and I can honestly say
here, what I said to the Sheriff at that
time, that I never witnessed an execution
of a white man conducted with a more
humane regard for the unfortunate victim
of the halter. Every effort was made by
the counsel of the prisoner, and many
delavs occurred before, under a second
sentence. Nick Thompson was hung. If
the people of Brooks county were blood-
♦Kivctw phflnrpH hr this man
thirsty “savages,” as charged by this man
Wade, Captain Hunter's murderer* would
not have lived in their midst unmolested
for more than • year before being execut
ed for his crime.
BELKNAP,
FRUITS OF RA0ICAL KNAVERY !
RADICALISM INTEARS!
HO ! GRANT, TO THE RESCUE 1
Impeachment of Secretary of War !
Belknap Flees from Justice
velopaient* !
Washington, March 2
In the House to-day Ulymer. of Pen-
sylvania, presented a resolution of im
peachment against William W. Belknap
late Secretary of War, for high crimes
and misdemeanors in office. In the
midst of great excitement, and with an
unusual stillness in the House, Mr.
Clymer rose and said :
I ask permission of the House to
make a report from the committee of
expenditures in the War Department,
which is of so grave importance that I
a n quite certain that when it is heard
the House will agree I am justified in
asking that permission at this time.
Permission was given, and Clymer,
taking his position at the clerk’s desk,
read the following report :
“Jhe committee found at the very
threshold of its investigation such un
questioned evidence of the malfeasance
of Gen Win, W. Belknap, then Secre
tary of War, that they found it their
duty to lay the same before the House.
They further report that this day at
11 o’clock, a letter of the President of
the United States was presented to the
committee, accepting the resignation of
the Secretary of War, together with a
copy of his letter of resignation, which,
the President informed the committee,
was accepted about 12:20 this morning.
They therefore unanimously report and
demand that the said Win. W. Belknap
late Secretary of War, be dealt with
according to the law of the land, and
to that end submit herewith the testi
mony in the case taken, together with
the several statements and exhibits
thereto attached, and ilso a rescript
of the proceedings of the committee,
had during the investigation of this
subject, and subaut the following reso
lutions :
in cm crimes and misdemeanors.
“Resolved, That William W. Belknap,
late Secretary of War, be impeached of
high crimes and misdemeanors in office.
"R-’tolreJ, That the testimony in the
case of Wm. W. Belknap, late Secretary
of War, he referred to the Judiciary Com
mittee, with instructions to prepare and
report, without unnecessary delay, suita
ble articles of impeachment against the
said Win. W Belknap, late Secretary of
War. - •
“Re-xolred That a committee of five mem
bers of the House be nppointed and in
structed to proceed immediately to the
bar of the Senate, and there impeach Wm.
W. Belknap, late Secretary of War, in the
name of the people of file United States,
of high crimes and misdemeanors when
in office, and inform that body that for
mal articles of impeachment will in due
time be presented, and to request the
Senate to take such order in the premises
as they may deem apj: ropriate.”
Mr. Clymer then proceeded to read the
TESTIMONY OF CALEB P. MARSH
taken yesterday before the committee,
showing that he had paid Secretary Belk
nap about twenty thousand dollars in con
sideration of his appointment as post tra
der at Fort Sill, Indian Territory. The
reading was listened to with intense inter
est by members of the House and by a
large audience in the galleries. In the
most pathetic portions of the narritive
Mr. Clymer was frequenely forced by his
feelings to pause until his voice recovered
from its tremulousness and himself from
his agitation. At the close of the reading,
and after the many members who had
taken up positions near the Clerk's desk,
the better to hear the testimony and ac
companying statements, had returned to
their proper seats, Mr. Clymer, who had
also gone to his own seat, again rose and
said, with great emotion:
“Mr. Speaker, I would not if I could,
and I could not in my present condition
if I would, add anything to the facts just
reported to the Hous e. Another occasion
may be afforded me to do so. They are
so plain that everywhere throughout this
bread land and throughout Christendom,
wherever the English language is read or
spoken, they will for long years consti*
tute a record of
OFFICIAL CORRUPTION AND CRIMES,
such as there is no parallel for in our own
history, or in that of any other countiy
that I know of. If in this hour one sen
timent of pity, one word of sympathy
could find utterance from me it would be
because I feel that the late Secretary of
War is but the proper outgrowth, the true
exponent of the corruption, the extrava
gance, the misgovernment, that have curs
ed this land for years past. This being
my own reflection, I will discharge my
duty best to myself and to this House by
demanding the previous question on the
Number 88
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Democratic
which we have
]
the Reuse
adoption of the
[Here followed •
heated discussion;
and Republican
not space to print.—]
The debate being
proceeded to vole on the reaolutions and
they were
CltAKIMOCSLT ADOPTBP.
The Speaker appointed *e the commit
tee to notify the Senate of the action of
and
ing the Commi'
ditures of the War Department iBaking
the report.
Thus ended the most bitterly painful
scene which ever took place in this hall,
the theatre of so many exciting events.
The proceedings not being anticipated, or
facts which ied to them, generally known,
there was at first no very large attendance
in the galleries. Mr. Wood was speaking
on the Hawaiian treaty in committee of
the whole, but on an intimation of what
was about to take place, he left his speech
unfinished, and gave way for a motion
that the committee rise.
Mr. Clymer in making his preliminary
remarks to the House, and subsequently
reading from the Clerk’s desk the testi
mony, which .old in such a plain and con
vincing manner the guilt of the man who
had been so trusted and honored, was vis
ibly affected, and had to exercise a strong
mastery over his feelings to suppress the
public display of his emotions. He was
particularly affected when he came to
read that portion of it which described
THE SCENE
between the witness Marsh, Mrs, Belknap,
and Mrs. Bowers, the sister of the then
Mrs. Belknap, and now herself holding
that name, in the nursery, where the pe
cuniary prospers of an innocent child
were alluded to, and the other portion
which described the efforts made by the
wife to screen the husband, and the men
tal anguish of the witness struggling be
tween the desire to save bis friend, and
the resolve not to do so at the expense of
his own soul. Mr. Clymer bad to pause
several times when he came to these pass
ages, and his strong emotion won favor
for him from all the spectators. During
the proceedings Mr. Kerr occupied the
Speaker’s chair and beneath him, at the
Clerk’s desk, sat his predecessor, Mr.
Blaine, evincing a painful interest 'in the
story as told in the testimony of Marsh.
Many members, whose seats are in a re
mote part of tbe ball, took up positions in
the area in front of the Clerics desk, and
all the rest occupied their (Luts, paying
most marked attention to the reading.
Before the same had closed the galleries
had all become crowded, including the
diplomatic gallery, where the Danish min
ister and his wife were among the specta
tors. There was a feeling of relief expe
rienced by all when the vote was taken
and the affair
BROUGHT TO A CLOSE.
The committee appointed by the Speak
er will to-morrow proceed to the Senate
chamber and communicate to that body
the action of the House. The Judiciary
Committee will also to-morrow draw up
articles of impeachment and report them
to the House. When adopted by the House
that body, headed by its Speaker and
high officers, will proceed to the Senate
chamber and demand the impeachment of
Mr. Belknap. Then the Senate will, in
parliamentary phrase, take order for the
impeachment—that is, arrange the time
and manner of conducting the trial, which
will be prosecuted on the part of the
House by its Judiciary Committee.
Marsh was not a willing witness, but
was brought here in custody. The fol
lowing is given as the origin of the Bel
knap invest gation : While in search
for a home for his family in December,
Hon B. B. Lewis, of Alabama, was re
fe: red to G. A. Armes, a real estat*
agent in this city. During their search
for a home Mr. Armes, in conversa
tion, stated to Mr. Lewis that he had
formerly belonged to the army, but was
dismissed through the enmity of Bel
knap, and that if he had the assistance
of a member of Congress he would in
siyty days develop facts that would
force Belknap to resign Mr. Lewis
tendered his assistance, and they 8 ;b-
sequently had several interviews. Mr.
Lewis, being impressed, songht the ad
vice of Mr. Randall who advised that
the facts be brought before Mr. Cly-
mer, chairman on expenditures in the
War Department. Lewis and Armes
saw Clymer, and Armes gave a list of
witnesses, including Marsh. After
wards Clymer thought Armes was ac
ting in bad faith, as the Secretary said
that Armes had proposed that if he was
restored to the army and certain other
conditions complied with, he would
drop the matter. Lewis said if Armes
was seeking only to levy blackmail, of
course they would have nothing to do
with it, but advised, as Armes had fur
nished the names of witnesses, that
they be called and examined, which
was done.
The evidence shows Caleb P. Marsh
made a bargain with the late wife of
Secretary Belknap and paid the money
to her. After her death; the money
went direc to the Secretary, the last
payment being for the quarter ending
December, 1875.
A rumor that Belknap had killed
himself ompp ant of a reported colloquy
bi tweebggtoA the jfimsident. The
Presideutr^iOT^^^WWryou had !*
THE SECRETARY OP WAR.
Wash ngton, March 3.—Secretary
Robeson this morning entered upon his
additional duties as Acting Secretary
of War. He will merely attend to rou
tine business*until the vacancy shall be
filled. His hour at the War Depart
ment for the recaption of members of
Congress is from half-past nine to half
past ten o’clock, and at the Navy De
partment from half-past ten to noon.
Mr. Belknap has not left his house
since yesterday, and, in the meantime,
has been called on oy a few intimate
friends:
“A GEORGIAN BRAVE ENOUGH ”
How Ben Hill Won a Confederate
Battle Flag from a Northern Wo
man-
Since Mr. Hill delivered his great speech,
his daily receipts of letter, complimenta
ry, curious and condemnatory, has been
something wonderful.
One of the most interesting of these let
ters came from a Mrs. Kimuall, of Phila
delphia, accompanied by a “Rebel battle
flag.” The following is the correspon
dence upon the subject:
Hon. Mr. HiU:
Dear Sir—I forward to you the flag
captured by the soldiers of the Union
when they took possession of the capital
of your State. It was given to me as a
token of gratitude for kindness shown to
the sick and wounded while in Savannah,
and sent to me by the boat in the return
from up the river where she landed the
troops. It gives me pleasure to return it
to a worthy son of Georgia, with the hope
that the past may be forgotten.
I never fail to appreciate a brave man.
The noble sentiments expressed by you
in your speech to Mr. Blaine, prove you.
such. Mr. Blaine is from Maine, my na
tive State, and I have always admired
him, but I feel he has made a mistake
this time. May God bless you, and give
you wisdom and thought to continue in
the way you have started, thus bringing
about an era of good feeling and prosperi
ty to our troubled land.
Your speech, the first from tbe South
since its restoration to power in Congress,
is worthy of her.
May our' united strength cause our
“Fathers House” to become tbe light of
the civilized world.
Your Yankee Sister,
Mrs. H. S. Kimball.
W. Philadelphia, Jan. 13th, 1876.
House of Representatives,
Washington, D. C., Jan. 15, 1876.
Mrt. H. S. Kimball, West Philadelphia:
Dear Madam—Your noble letter of the
13th instant was received this morning.
By express I have also received the flag
“captured by soldiers of the Union when
they took possession of the capital of my
State.”
I cannot adequately express the feelings
awakened in me by this gift, and by the
touching and patriotic words which ac
company the gift.
The flag itself is a sad reminder of an
gry days, but your beautiful expressions
of devotion to country, finding as they
certainly do, a sincere response in my
owd bosom, awaken likely hopes that we
“shall have wars no tnore.” For your
•most grateful approval of my own humble
efforts to this end, please also accept my
warmest thanks.
I can truly say I have no mission in
public life but to aid, as far as I may be
able in restoring public peace and in pro
moting the public good. The people of
the North cannot afford to ask the people
of the South to yield their manhood, for
that would prove themselves of the North
unmanly. The people of the South can
not afford to yield their manhood for that
would be to confess themselves unworthy.
Let the people of each section admit
the great truth, which will demonstrate
tbe manhood and worth of both: That
we differed honestly; that we fought brave
ly, and that our differences are settled, in
good faith, on the basis of the Constitu
tion as it is. And now, with our people
all free, our States all sovereign, and our
country all one, let us all “unite our
strength to cause our ‘Fathers house’ to
become the light of the civilized world.”
Your Southern Brother
Bexj. H. Hill.
Mr. Hill determined to present the flag
to the Young Men's Library, of Atlanta,
and addressed the following letter to Mr.
Mallon, President of that Institution:
House of Representatives,
Washington, D. C., Fefc. 11, 1876.
Mr. B. Mallon, President Young Men's Li
brary Asuoriation of Atlanta, Ga:
Sir:—I desire to present to the Library
Association, through you, the flag captur
ed by the army of General Sherman at
Milledgevilla, the capital of our State*
This flag was recently presented to me
by tbe noble lady, to whom it was given
by the Union soldiers, as a testimonial of
appreciation, by a Northern lady, of my
bumble utterances in the late Amnesty
debate in vindication of the manhood of
our Southern people, and in promotion
of the mutual good will of the people of
all sections of our common country. Let
the flag be preserved as a memento of a
people who were enough to figfcLLlfco ‘W*
while the battle lasted, and who
brave enough also to make peace when
the battle ended. It requires a higher
courage to forget than to indulge in ani
mosities.
With high regard, I am yours very tru
ly,
Bexj. H. Hill.
half military air. He is a fine speaker
aud oommands thorough attention. If
a statue is ever made of Bayard—and:
the eonntry might lie proud to bare one
—he should be postured, calm, tran-
quil and ereot, with a game chicken in
his right hand. He is the man of all
others that I should rely on to go td
the stake with a smile, and to death
with an unblanched brow. He would
be braver than tbe noisy
A BEEP INTO THE SENATE.
Henry W Grady, the racy editor of
the Atlanta Courier, is in Washington,
and below we give a few of his person .1
sketches of prominet Senators :
The American Senate is the baldest-
headed body of men on earth—or in
the heavens above or the waters be
neath, for that matter. Abaft the eyes
of each Senator rises a vast expanse of
uncultivated area—sterile and bare.
Senator John Gordon’s brown bead is
the one grateful oasis iu the weary des
ert of white skulls, and even the shame
fully apparent wig of the curly-haired
messenger who sits by the President’s
desk, gives the eye a sort of peg to
hang itaelf on. I have heard that wo
men have no beaid because they keep
their jaws wagging so perpetually that
the whiskers have no time to bloom ; so
1 suppose the coustant turmoil of the
brain beneath skulls of these seigniors
have worn the hair off, just as volcanos
with any vim in their craters have no
shrubbery about their summit. The
best, explanation, however, that I ever
had of baldness, came from an old fel
low that I once accosted’ with tbe ques
tion, “how came you baldheaded ?”
“My son,” said he, leaning paterniaing-
ly over me, “I was born so.” I sup
pose this explanation will as well apply
to Senators as to the rest of mankind.
Judge Thurman is the greatest man
in the Senate. By this I mean ho is
the completest statesman—the most sat
isfactory figure to-day in American
politics. “All these men,” said Con
gressman Felton, who for years in his
quiet home on the Etowah, has keenly
and observingly studied public men and
events, “lessen as I approach them inti
mately. There is only one man of them
all who has not dwindled 38 I have
drawn near to him, who has held the
full statue that my mind had given him
and that is Judge Thurman. He is
the greatest statesman that I know.”
Judge Thurman has made no mistakes.
There is a sweet and splendid consist
ency in his record and that, too, in
spite of the fact that he h s been in
public life long enough to give him a
perfect mastery of governmental affairs.
Amid the most turbulent period of
American history—aye, amid the storm
of revolution he has stood, a steadfast
and conspicuous figure. He is a heavy
portly gentleman, very deliberate in hi*
manner and always in his seat. He
■ports a red bandanna handkerchief,
and blows the loudest nose in America.
It is said that on one occasion Senator
Jo-res of Nevada, who, in early life,
had been a brakeman on a railroad,
dropped to sleep at bis desk Senator
Thurman solemnly waved his red ban
danna and gave his nose a terrific snort.
Tbe sleepiog Senator sprang to his feet
and seizing his desk commenced twist
ing it with all his might. H afterward
explained that he thought Thurman’s
blow was an engine whistling down
brakes, and the red handkerchief a sig
nal oftdistress ; hence his wrenching of
the desk.
Bayard, the matchless aristocrat,
move* daintily through the chamber,
rather priding himself upon not having
a speaking acquaintance with more than
half his colleagues. He has a sover
eign contempt for Morton and his crowd
and always passes them with head erect
and eyes over their heads. He is as
trim and handsome as an Arabian
guillotine stopped
die in unperturbed s^enoe.
Morton is a notable figure, though
an ignoble one. He sit* just in front’
of the speaker, and has a round knob
reared above his desk, by which he
supports himself when he speaks. Hi*
crutches are displayed, rather conspic
uously I thought, on the back of hi*
ohair. He has the meanest and most
ignoble face that I ever saw—a most
villainous pug nose, with the nostrils
flaring to the front, rises above a blue
lipped mouth and a flabby chin, strag
gled over with bristled beard. His
eyes are small, black and glittering, and
his forehead, as if ashamed of the whole
affair, retreats abashed into an angular
skull, from which disease has long ago
eaten all the hair. The upper part of
his body is brawny enough, but below
the waist dribbles into a couple of mar-
rowless apologies for legs, that drag af
ter him like a scotched snake when he
attempts to walk. Ove the whole of
him is thrown a .complexion of malio*
and bitterness that comports with tbe
details of the picture. He is a misera
ble wretch, and jet a vigorous thinker.
An acute lawyer, a thorough Constitu
tional scholar, and a man versed iU
affairs, he stands in the Senate where
Blaine does in the House. His con
stant companion is Pinchback—a bar
ber-shoppy looking darkey, odorous and
curly, who, by the grace of the devi^
has been voted a Senator,
FLORIDA VoURNALISlf: '
Below we give a specimen of Florida
Journalism. They don’t mind being per
sonal down there:
“The low blackguards,, liars, and fcftw-
ardly curs of the Monticello Constitution,
as they have demonstrated themselves tri
be by every utterance in their last edito
rial, are at liberty to adopt, if they think
proper, either Stearns, Conover or Pur-
man, as their Gubernatorial Candidate,
They seem to prefer Steams Or Purman,
but we do not doubt that either of thq
three, as disreputable and as infamous
even as soine of them now stand, is infin
itely their superior in. every quality save
that of the beast. One thing their edito
rial, however, makes plain, and that hr
the fact that the man most dreaded by the
Democracy as the Gubernatorial candidate
of the Republican party is the Hon. Wil-
liara Watkin Hicks, although he is not
our choice. Prove any Republican *
scoundrel and lie at once becomes a favor
ite of your Florida Democrat. Let him
be proven an honest man and at once he
becomes detested by your Florida Demo
crat. The reason is plain. It is an old
song, and the Fiddles of the Constitution:
play the tune well. It was born in them*
—Fernaridina Observer.
So says that dilapidated, gawky, crazy
and dirty piece of humanity—that lousy
and maggoty crawling imbecil—the degen^
erate son of an illustrious sire—tbe irrev-
crend blatteroon editor of that infamour
sheet, the Fernandina Observer, in bis is
sue of the 26th Ult. We reprint this “scalL
■wag’s” dirty effurion—and which 1* strict
ly in keeping with his mangy, slimy, and
putrescent carcass—because we consider
that the abuse of such a contemptible
scoundrel, liar and mud slinger, partakes
of a compliment. We appreciate the good
will and kind utterances of gentlemen,
but always prefer the denunciation of the
depraved and vicious—tbe pntrified spawn
tha( fructified in the dens of iniquity—
whose names are uttered by the virtuous
and true Only with loathing and detesta-'
tion.—Monticello Constitution.
Dawson Journal: We noticed some
two or three weeks ago that a worm was
giving a good deal of trouble to some far
mers by making depredations into their'
oat fields and destroying a great number
of acres of that grain. Recent informa
tion from tbe country states that the oat
worm is on the increase and is doing •-
great injury to the crop. We believe that
all tbe farmers agree in saying that tbs
worm is similar to a garden cut worm and
to the caterpillar, seeming to be a cross
between tbe two. We advise some of
our friends to watch tbe worms closely?;
learn their habits ; get all tbe information
possible concerning them ; secure some of
the worms, snd send them toJProf. John
horse.and the blue veins run gurgling j J f H^n^bl^hdp yS
through his haughty face and hands. " ’ “ —’
He seldom jokes with tbe members,
never lounges about tbe chamber, and
answews few cards. He always dresses
faultlessly but with marked plainness.
His slothes do not have the portly, pro
fuse cut so fashionable, but catch him
close around the form and give him a
find remedies for the extermination of tbq
pest, and thereby save you another such
affliction.
A Minnesota editor remark* that
Blaine can no more approach the Whit*'
House than a porcupine eao go throagb-
the hole in a shirt button tail foremost*-
not while 3rant is lying around lassfifr
in that vicinity.