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-, 5 bed Every Thureday }• “HERE SHAH THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, RNA WED BTINFLUENQB AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" 4 Two fiollut For Absent | 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 - id somewhat 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.