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t accordance with the action of the Geor
l'ress Association, at its last annual meet
in Americas, the executive Committee
dish the following list of newspapers pub
* (1 within the State of Georgia on the aux
rv or patent outside plan:
Irlhiflie Journal. Georgia Clipper, Camilla
f. -/ij-isc, 7'ort Valley Mirror', Acworth
i, <!> r hnd East ma n 77 mem
he Association prohibits its members from
hanging with or quoting (clipping) from
papers published on this plan. U’e, there
r, in the discharge of our duty, and in ac
dance with instructions, publish the above
[ for the guidance of Associat ion papers.
ll&ntry F. Andrews,
Acting Chairman Ex. Com-.
C. W. Hancock,
.1. F>. Gorman.
tioii papers throughout the State
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An Enterprising- Convict.
HJ<>hn Short, the prisoner who ran aWhis
still ia Sing-Sing prison. says hn earned
J|i \ iih t’>■ or; -S■'!;>.l vr!ill,
he worked with seine small lamps
a whole .year, ifatS “Ltawn” est by an-
Hk.>r convict, to whom he refused credit.
■ coarse, an officer of the prison was a
At the same time they made
profits of .-in'levied groceries, tobacon
HR clears, estimated at 1.000 per cent.
keeper who was in with him was able
HRmild a four story house with his share.
Hll»'H|nen!iy a small copper still and some
Hems were smuggled into the prison, and
t up in an outhouse where gunpowder
nitro-glvcerine ‘tor bfesting rocks are
Hl"red. an l though well watched, and once
H>ek.\l up in a&uk cell e?) suspicion, Short
Had $6,144 when he left the prison, all
Hiade out of the whiskey trade —for his
Htoek of groceries was found and seized,
Hnd eventuallly netted a loss—the keeper
Bnd other confederates having received a
Hill larger sum. Short says he could have
‘scaped any time, but didn’t want to leave
fc'hile making a hundred dollars a week.
He had no difficulty in getting all the bar
er he wanted, as large quantities Were used
n the soup houses, and the steamboat
.‘rings np numerous bags full eVery week.
It was easy to rip a hole in a bag and fill
‘ails. He used two large wash tubs be
on gin g to the prison to make a mask in,
twlore he was discharged, lie sold the
business to another convict, who is now
making whiskey, and who ought to make
£-0,000 before his time is up.
Hie Legislature of Missippi has passed
a law which is certainly in the interest of
the women who have been waging a crusade
igainst. whiskey -soiling. It, provides that
in all cases of application to sell vinous
liquors, or for the renewal of such license,
ho such license shall be granted or renewed
Unless the petition therefor shall be signed
* n *he genuine signatures or attested in
the cast* may bo. of a majority of the male
■citize\s over twenty-one years of age, and
« majority ol female citizens over eighteen
J ears of age, resident of the supervisors’
district or of the incorporated city or town
where such liquors are to be sold.” Now
the women of Mississippi have it in their
* K)Wt>r 10 show whether they favor or op
pose drinking saloons.
New York tx Brikf.—Affairs in Gotham
?uv not as eheerfid as the average pro via*
riahst wight naturally suppose. A corres
pondent writes : "The dovel seems to be
turned loose on both land and water Claf
■iH’ gr<*at dry goods man, appears verv
hune still ; Stewart has lost until it is ru
mored that his junior partners are finan
cially wiped out. Places like Tiffany ’s and
4 JSaek's, where only luxuries are sold,
are let severely alone. Camel’s hair shawls,
jewelry of every description, etc., can be
had for a tithe of their cost. The hotels
are losing when they should be reaping,
and the laborer is "striking,” w hile there is
«u demand for his employment. Ou the
water we have steamship disaster quickly
succeeding disaster as the result of short
passengw lists and consequent negligence,
The day is not far distant,” says a Ita
leigh paper , "when the world will begin to
look on death as a journey to another
world.” The Louisville Courier-Journal
assents to this, and naively adds that the
journey will be one on which we can all go
fIMHDIE WEEKLY Sift
CHARLES SUMMER!
In Congress.
r r i' l l • °f Vermont. Mr. Presi
onr ,iurn^erd are not so large
99H§Bttflp<fforonces of any sort so great’
not led, when death enters this
jit j*'R' something of the bereavement of
family circle. Associated here
term of years, often inclu
lffilg||Hprimc and ripest portion of our
meeting in the workshops of
end in daily’ debate, hearing
repeated in the frequent rolL
not strange that it should give
a pang to part with the hum
" hen it passes away forever to
SraßSHry court of eternity.” But now
’ part with a conspicuous member
eonspicuous by length of ser-
ability and established re
np|PjrH<'h one of us must confess to more
a P ersona l loss as well as to the
* Bjss of the Senate itself. Charles
the higher law has respond.
!|lfl|gH last roll-call, and here the fainil-
HBB of his voice is forever silenced.
presence on the crowning
of the Senate will no longer at
tract attention. Only tfce memory remains
to us of one whose words and hearing—
with minor qualifications—so well comport
ed with the dignity of his office as to have
fairly earned the title of a model Senator
Mr. Sumner for four years had been a
member of the Senate when it was my for
tune, in 1855, first to hold a seat in the
House of Representatives. For words
spoken in debate, in 1856, he was brutally
assaulted by Preston S. Brooks, a member
of the House, and it was not until after
this that my personal acquaintance with
him began. For some years I was more
familiar with what was then known as his
■“vacant chair” than with the Senator to
whom it belonged, who was abroad ready
to invoke heroic remedies, if only they led
to health. During these years he returned
for a short period, but bore little or no
part in the Senate. Mr. Brooks meanwhile
suddenly died, as at last and after inter
vals of painful suffering, has, also snddenly’
the victim of his violence. It was notice
aide in his social intercourse, while others
let slip an occasional outburst of feeling as
to his assailant, Mr. Sumner never disclos
ed the least lingering personal animosity.
History was silently left to avenge itself.
11 is misfortune appeared to be accepted as
one of the many inseparable wrongs result
ing ik»m the cruel system of/slavery, with
which only he waged enduring battle, and
not as the Crime of an individual with
whom, living or dead, besought only peace.
The Senate of the United States is no
•ordinary theatre in, which men sustain
parts. It is the forum of States. If the
seat which in 1851 Mr. Sumner was called
to fill had been previously occupied by an
undistinguished person, his task would
have been comparatively easy; but that
seat had been long held by one the world
pronounced the foremost American Sena
tor, made classic by one the breadth and
grandeur of whose services—whose elo
quence and statesmanship, with that of
his compeers—had placed the American
Senate on a level with that of the Roman
Republic in the days of its greatest virtue
and highest splendor. He succeeded, after
a brief interlude, the veteran “Defender of
of the Constitution,” who had stamped up
on our banner the ineffaceable words. “Un
ion and, Liberty, now and forever, one and
inseparable.” To say that he proved not
an unworthy successor of Webster, how
ever unlike, is to say much, considering he
was but a tyro in the politics of even the
Common wealth from whence he came. It!
was the fortune of Charles Sumner to be
placed in his high station at a period of
grand turd rapidly culminating events.
Blessed with exalted natural gifts, he also
had been furnished with a large share of
the erudition of the age, completed by
such graces as foreign travel supplies. Hav
ing already started in the field with a snial]
band of early crusaders against slavery
impelled by a robust frame and more ro
bust will, he fearlessly seized upon every
fit occasion in his new position to make
that institution odious and, if possible, to
wound it in some of its most vulnerable
parts. This was his all-absorbing mission.
Ile received and revered the Constitu
tion of our country. nrdaiuod by the
same will and power which proclaimed that
great Magna Charta of human
the Declaration of Independence, and
therefore never forgot the fundaments]
idea of “equality before the law,” nor that
“all men are created equal.” He brought
no fixed allegiance to party platforms, and
tound no withes in the Constitution that
restrained him from resisting any claims
for the protection of slavery; but that in
strument was everywhere to be interpre_
ted broadly and bCneficiently in the inter,
ests of humauity, world-wide and divinely
free.
Bestowing care even upon trifles, his
orations in the Senate, as might be ex*
pected, were prepared as for a grand occa
sion, and, towering in his place like a tri
bune of the people, the heavy, resounding
tones of his voice were went to draw the
attention of willing listeners to words
which soon found through the press a far
wider acceptance. His arguments were
methodical, übuudani in information, stif
fened by apt and pregnant sentences, stu
diously observant of the syllogistic begin
ning, middle, and eud, and, though rarely
what is called brilliant or illumined by wit,
were always clearly put forth, with the
paramount object of spreading light and
with the convincing majesty of earnest,
ness.
Those among ns who may have found it
sometimes difficult to agree with him never
found it difficult to respect his fairness of
purpose, his unflinching integrity, or his
we alth of learning. In his orbit as a states
man he soared high from the beginning to
I the end, and ever sought with moral intre
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, MAY 7, 1874.
pidity noble ends by noble means. As to
the largest share of legislative measures,
he was apt to be right. He sturdily and
sorrowfully resisted the banishment of coitq
as an alien, from the base of a sound cur
rency. Upon questions of popular rights
was often & leader; in all steps of reform
he was never a laggard. The doctrines he
espoused, if not exclusively his own, ap
peared to belong to him by the possesso*
ry title of constant Use aud earnest adher
ence. He needed no admonition to “stick.’’
If it cannot properly be claimed that “his
doctrines persuaded one generation to
live to govern the next,” it may be claim-,
ed that his early text, of “Freedom nation
al. slavery sectional,” did not wait until the
next generation to be even more than veri
fied. Freedom is national and slavery for
ever extinct. In the surging conflicts in
behalf of universal liberty the deceased
Senator has gathered many laurels, and if
few more remained to be won. his brow was
already covered. He will be numbered
among those who helped to change a great
chapter in our history. By a life of un
stinted and unselfish labor he secured the
undying gratitude of an emancipated race
and the general approval of mankind.
Mr. Sumner was ever surrounded by
books. They were his most beloved
friends, and surrendered many of their se
cret treasures to their constant wooer
New books as well as old, Longfellow as
well as Plato and Milton, often robbed him
of sleep. He was a somewhat fastidious
lover of the beautiful in art, busily collect,
ing such notable objects as were histori
cally rarepeuperb in material, or cunningin
workmanship; but neither this elegant re
finement of taste nor the epicurean seclu
sion of his daily life lifted him above will
ing labor and the tenderest sympathy for
those who were rude, unlettered, and de.
graded by even the darkest-bro Wed slavery.
To him the “Greek Slave” in marble ap
peared transcendently beautiful; but the
chain, the ugly system, that chafed the
limbs and bound the living slave, was an
intolerable atrocity, even a manacle on the
symbol of God.
Mr. Sumner’s habits of industry, though
the sands of his fourth term as a Senator
were fast running out, clung to him to the
very last, and in no three months of his
life Veto they much better displayed, nor
rest and pastime more habitually scorned,
than in those which brought his labors to
an end.
Most men have some specialty wherein
they chiefly excel, and doubtless the great
subject of the national rights of jumn most
deeply excited the enthusiasm of * liarles
Sumner; but lie brought valuable contribu
tions into the discussion of a wide field of
topics, political and historical; and upon
International law, it may not be wrong to
say, he was possibly more profoundly
learned than upon the subject which most
contributed to build up and support his
reputation. Few men have done more
work, and fewer still have done it so well-
While chairman of the Committee on For
eign Relations, in ail critical emergencies
lie was a vigilant and powerful friend of
peace, and as such merits the country’s
grateful remembrance. The principle eni
bodied in our late treaty with Great Brit,
ain, of the arbitration of international dif
ferences, he eagerly accepted as the herald
of peace to future generations, in harmony
his earliest idea of the “True Grandeur of
Nations,” and as a hopeful sign of human
progress.
Public men during life very often receive
the poorest kind of thanks for their no
blest efforts. The world at large is not al
ways swift to comprehend; associates look
on with torpid indifference; and enemies
are made glad by every new field exposed
to assault. But when the grave closes the
scene, praise of the dead harms no rival?
and the final verdict of history proclaims
only ti utli, generously perhaps, but free
from detraction and all uncharitableness,
and then public men who deserved well of
their country obtained that full measure of
recognition and revrence which at last con
fers merited rank in the roll of the wor
thiest of mankind.
The present age, however, always suf
fers at all points by all points by contrast
with the past, because none but the great
among the unuumbered hosts turned to
dust—the few screened and idolized pro
ducts of picked centuries—have been pre
served, vrhilc all of the present age visible
and so near that no deformities can be hid
den. There is no sun, that has not longed
ceased to shine, whose spots remain uure"
vealed.
Our deceased associate, unsheltered by
wealth, by family, or by party, was exposed
first and last to much adverse criticism'
from which, in spite of much real admira
tion, impartiality will not even now whol
ly release him. His persistency in push
ing his own measures to the front, though
to their present hurt or to the hurt of oth
era. often provoked rebuke. His enemies
he easily forgave, but could not so easily
bury the slender personal affronts received
in any wordy encounters from his peers.
His self confidence, admirable enough
when he was right, was no less unmistaka
ble and glittering when he happened to
be wrong, 'io his conclusions, sincerely
reached, he gave regal pretensions, and for
them accepted nothing less than uncondi
tional submission. Unconscious of person
al offense, he imperiously and with the
stride of a colossus, trampled down what
ever arguments stood in his way, not know
ing who was bruised, and yet was acme
times so sensitive that if his own argu
ments were touched by the gentlest zephyrs
of personal retort he felt they were visited
too roughly.
Yet these occasional self-assertions by
no means held general sway, and never at
his own house and table, where the cordial
greeting and genial smile, with conversa
tion embroidered with both wisdom and
mirth, exhibited the full and varied attrac
tions of his head and heart.
finally, deducting whatever truth may
TEE CONSTITUTION AS AMENDED—TEE UNION AS RESTOEED.
demand—a stcru deduction the deceased
never omited—the brightnesses His fame
will not serve to perpetuate the memory of
any stain upon the obsolate purity of hi3
private or public character, and ithere will
still remain the imperishable records of
a memorable career—something* that the
highest ambition aims to grasp, and that
heroes die to obtain—or much of the rea
elements of greatness and all the glory of
a historic name. , .
“I live in the hope of a better wori*L a
world,with a littleness friction,” are words I
have seen attributed to the Sena
tor. Has he not, with no duty
reached that
us does not sometimes pray for “a "world
with a little less friction.
Mr. ANTHONY. Mr. President, lean
add nothing of naratkm or of .euloey to
what has been said, and so well said. Mr
Sumner’s life, h»s character, and his servi
ces have been fittingly presented, and on
both sides of the Chamber. The generous
voices of political opponents have followed
the affectionate praises of devoted .friends,
and nothing remains but to close this sad
and august observance. Yet something
forbids my entire silence, and impels me to
interpose a few sentences before the sub
ject passes from the consideration of the
Senate.
My acquaintance witfPftlr, Smnne®ltom
menced previous to my entrance into this
body, where it ripened into a friendship
which will always remain among the most
agreeable recollections of life.—
1 remained associated with him until every
other seat in the Chamber, except one,had
changed.its occupant, and eight new ones
had been added. Some left us in the or
dinary chances and changes of political for
tunes; some were transferred to other de
partments of the public service; and of
these some have returned again to the Sen
ate; some, as Douglas, and Baker, and Col
lamer, and Foot, and Fessenden, fell, like
Sumner, at their posts, and like him were
borne to their final repose with all the de
monstrations of'public gratitude, of official
respect,and of popular affection with which
a generous constituency decorates the me
mory of those whose lives have been spent
in its service and who have worthily worn
its honors.
But Mr. Sumner's constituency was the
Republic, wide as its farthest boundary
and permeating its utmost limits; for lie
was conspicuously the representative of a
principle which, although seminal in the
organization ofUhe Government*, was slow
of growth and fructified largely under his
care. When the intelligence of hi.? death
followed so close upon the first intimation
of his danger, it fell with an equal shock
upon all classes of society, upon “all sorts
and conditions of men ;” it invaded with
equal sorrow the abodes of luxury and the
cottages of the poor—
liegwmque furres.
The scholar closed his book and the la
borer leaned upon his spade. The highest
in the land mourned their peer,the lowliest
lamented their friend. How well hjs life
hud earned this universal testimony of res
pect ; how naturally the broad sympathy
which he had manifested for the wronged
and the injured of every condition came
back to honor liis memory, it is not my
purpose to enlarge upon. His eulogy is
his life; his epitaph is the general grief; his
monument,builded by his own hands, is the
eternal status of freedom.
Mr. President, when I look back over
thi3 long period, crowded with great
events, and which has witnessed the con
vulsion of the nation, reorganization and
reconstruction of our political system; when
in my mind's eye, I people this Chamber
with those whose forms have been familiar
to me, whose names, many of them histori
cal names.have been labeled on these desks
and are now carved on the marble that co
vers tbeir dust, 1 am filled with a sadness
inexpressible, yet full of consolation. For,
musing on the transitory nature of all sub
lunary things, I come to perceive that their
instability is notin their essence,but in the
forms which they assume and in the agen
cies that operate upon them; and when I
recall those whom I have seeu fall around
me, and whom I thought necessary to the
success,almost to the preservation of great
principles, I recall also those whom I have
seen step into the vacant places, put on
the armor which they wore, lift the wea
pons which they wielded, and march on to
the consumation of the work which they
inaugurated. And thus I am filled with
reverent wonder at the beneficient order
ing of nature, and inspired with a loftier
faith in that Almighty Power, without
whose guidance and direction all hnrr.au es- I
fort is vain, and with whose blessing the
humblest instruments that He selects are
equal to the mightiest work that He de
signs.
And now. Mr. President as a tribute of
respect to-the memory of our departed as
sociate, I move that the Senate adjourn.
The motion was agreed to; and (at two
o'clock and thirteen minutes p. m.) the
Senate adjourned.
lenders and Sorrowers.
The clamor of the New York press over
the finance bill which passed both Houses
of Congress, and has been vetoed by the
President, might and have been expected.
In a straight fight in Congress capitalists
for the first time were defeated. They felt
sore and mortified; and the Eastern press»
which is under their control, gave vent to
their mortification. Every man who ha3
SIO,OOO in greenback currency in bank
would like to have it made equal to sll_
000 by redemption in gold, which is worth
10 per cent, more than currency. Every
creditor who holds his neighbor's note and
mortgage for SI,OOO would rather have it
paid in gold or $llOO in currency, than to
have it paid by SIOOO in legal tender note3.
Every man who has $500,000 in green
backs', and must pay for what he bays at
the present prices, would l:ke to have hi*
j money increased by 10 per cent, and the
; prices reduced 10 per cent. And, of course f
it is the direct pecuniary interest of every
rich pian, if his means are in money, and
his dealings in money, that specie payments
be resumed,
But there is another part of the commu
nity, who, although more numerous, have
long submitted to the aggressions and ex.
actions of capital. It consists of the
debtors of the country, enterprising busi
ness men who are forced to borrow money
in the prosecution of their business, and
the producers of the countiy. They are
now moving for the protection of thei r
and the producers of the country
They are now movies "loirthl§fprotebtitm of
their rights, and the establishment of jus
ter relations with the class whose sole bu
siness it is to heap up capital by drawing
exorbitant tribute from the industries of
the land. The passage of this finance bill
is the first fruit of the struggle wdiich they
have inaugurated. For the first time Con
gress has been made to recognize their
wishes and their power.
The farmer in Wisconsin who has been
compelled to contract a debt of a thou
sand dollars depends upon hi3 crops for the
funds with which to discharge it. His
produce will sell for 10 per cent, more iu
greenbacks than in gold, and the green
backs will pay the debt. And so, were
specie payments resumed to-day, while the
debt would remain the same, he w’ould
remain the same, he would have to sell his
crops for 10 per cent, less; or, in other
W’ords. it would take $llOO to pay SIOOO
The 10 per cent, difference would pass into
the pocket of his creditor.
The nabob in New York, with $500,000
in greenbacks on deposit in bank, would,
it specie payments w’ere resumed, have 10
per cent, more money, while for everything
he w r ould have to buy, he would pay 10
per cent. les3. That is to say, the rich man
profits at both ends of the transaction,
while the poor man, the business man and
the producer incur a corresponding loss.
No one can doubt that it is for the inte
rest of Mr. Alexander Mitchell .whose
wealth is estimated at £15,000,000, and
whose means are in “current funds,” or
what will instantly command them, to have
the government take his greenbacks and
return him gold, dollar for dollar. If he
could to-day accomplish this result he
would make 10 per cent.,that is £1,500,000.
But how would Mr. Mitchell's debtors fare?
The men who have borrowed each £I,OOO
of him, in green-backs, would each have to
pay £IOOO in gold—lo per cent., more than
they received, to say nothing of the interest
on the loan. In other words, the business
men of Milwaukee and of the state who
have become Mr. Mitchell's debtors would
lose just what he would gain, if his scheme
of finance should be now adopted. By the
course of that distinguished man of money
in Congress he represents his own interests
admirably well, but he would hardly seem
to be taking a very tender care of those of
his constituents. Ilis financial views would
appear to regard chiefly the cupidity of the
class to which he belongs, and the gratifica
tion of this cupidity by a further draft upon
the means of the classes from whose indus
try his enormous capital ha3 been accumu
lated.
It is not surprising that throughout the
whole land bankers and money-changers of
all sorts clamored in chorus against the fi
nance bill. Wall street, their great center,
led in the concert. But the people of the
Great West are aroused to the vindication
of their rights, aud are determined to save
them.
This fact Wall street may as well hes and
at first as at last. The power of capital
is great; but the rich men are a very
minority of the whole nation, and unless
the great body of the people can be de
ceived. they cannot be defeated in the es.
forts they are making and will continue to
make for their disentkralment. — Milwau
kee Sentinel.
A Very Remarkable Legal De
cision Affecting Life Insur
ance Policies.
The Baltimore Underwriter, of the 16tli,
publishes a very remarkable decision which,
if not reversed, will render a large number
of life insurance policies worse than worth
less to their holders.
Mrs. Mary Busby had a policy in the
North American Company of New York
City on the life of her husband. The pre
mium was due on the 20th of June, 1873,
but was not paid until the 28th of that
month, when it was mailed to the com
pany’s agent iu Baltimore, who countersi
gned the receipt already signed by the of
ficers of the company, aid reported it as
paid, regularly, at the etui of the month.—
Mr. Busby died in July, and the company
discovering that the premiom had been re
ceived after it was due, resolved to contest
the payment of the policy. The Under
writer says the company had another de
fense, which was fraud in the application ;
but that they won the case on the, follow
ing instructions to the jury, asked for by
the company’s counsel aud granted by the
Court:
That the policy sued on this case became
lapsed, or forfeited, by the non-payment of
the premium, on or before the 20th of June
1872. and there is no legal evidence in this
case that the said* policy was evfer revised
or the forfeiture thereof waived by the de- !
fendant; aud, therefore, the plaintiff cannot
recover thereon in this action, and the ver
dict of the jury must be for the defendant.
The court in granting this prayer, held,
that the warning to the assured (embodied
in the policy and in the several renewed
receipts, but more especially in the notice
of the maturing premium), that it was made
by the policy a condition precedent to its
continuance in force, that the premium j
should be paid within the time limited, and
also advising her of the restricted powers ,
of the agent, estopped her from pleading j
the act of the agent as a waiver of the con- j
dition of forfeiture; also, that the accep
tance of the premium by the company from
the agent, in ignorance of any of the facts
attendant upon its payment, could have no
retroactive effect and operate as a confirm
ation of the act, of the agent; and thirdly,
inasmuch as the fact attending the payment
of the premium came to the company’s
j knowledge after the death of the party
| whose life was insured, a tender of the re
! turn of the premium by the company was
not oscntial to its maintaining the plea of
forfeiture, because the theory of waiver
must be based upon such retention operat
ing to the prejudice of the assured, by mis
leading her, and thus inducing her to fore
go doing that wdiich she would have done
nad slif not thus been mislejl, pro
curing elsewhere insurance in lieu of *thaf
thus declared forfeited.
We call the attention of all policy-hold
ers to this decision. It is a very import
ant one, and should receive their careful
consideration. If it is good law, they are
not safe, even with the company’s receipt
in their pocket3, provided the premium was
not paid at a certain date. We do not be
lieve, however, that many companies will
make such a disreputable defence. —Macon
Telegraph.
[From The N. Y. Herald]
A Hermit’s Death.
For the past fifteen years there has lived
in a little shanty at No/226 Graham street,
near Do Kalb avenue, Brooklyn, a remarka
ble old man, about 70 years of age. He
was known, from his retired manners, as
“The Hermit,” for he dwelt alone, and rare
ly had any visitors in his hovel. He would,
however, converss with persons who came
to his door, and those who were able to
engage him in conversation were not long
in discovering that he was an intelligent
man. This very eccentric old man, who
gave his name as David Fasten, was highly
educated, and, notwithstanding his years,
had a remarkably sharp intellect. His
manners were refined, and he devoted a
good portion of his time to reading the
productions of the best authors. His little
hovel was not more thau Bxlo feet, and
this, it is said, was put up by two or three
policemen about fifteen years ago. These
officers were not the only persons who form
ed an attachment for him, for some of the
members of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church,
of which Rev. Mr. 'Thompson is pastor,
became interested in him, and contributed
towards his support. It was always
thought somewhat strange that he never
could be induced to say anything of his
former life, and consequently nothing wrs
known of him previous to his appearance
on Graham street. On Friday and Satur
day there was no smoke seen curling from
the chimney of his little domicile, and some
of those who occupied neighboring shanties
began to wonder what had become of the
old man. It was thought first that he was
absent from home, and some were unchari
table enough to intimate that he had gone
on a little .spree and was locked up. The
old man, however, was an advocate of the
temperance cause and was never knowu to
indulge in intoxicating drinks. His non
appearance yesterday caused some inqui
ries, and in was suggested by some who
knew him that his shanty be broken open
to see whether he was dead or alive. Final
ly Officer Lennon was called, and he broke
open the window and crawled in. On
opening the door from the inside the body
of Easton was discovered on his little mat
tress of straw in the corner, but it present
ed a rather startling sight. It looked as if
the rat3 had been feeding off his hands,
face and legs for the past two or three days.
One side of his face was almost gnawed off,
while the flesh on his bauds had been eaten
to the bones. Had the body lain much
longer it would probably presented a sight
similar to that of Jacob Knoop, the Ger
man liquor dealer, who died alone in his
house in South Brooklyn, and whose body
was devoured by his dog, which had been
locked in with him.
Mrs. Gouldey, one of the members of
St. Mary’s, when informed of the death of
Easton last evening, went to his cabin and
wept. She had frequently conversed with
him upon religious matters, and had become
much interested in him. She had- for a
long time contributed towards his support.
While the soup house was open at the
Fourth precinct, Capt Craft says he would
occasionally come there with a little pail
and get some soup and bread. The mem
bers of St. Mary’s have made arrangements
to give this singular man a decent burial,
and his body was removed to an underta
ker’s last uignt.
s?he Arlington Estate.
The effort to recover possession of the
Arlington estate, formerly the home of Gen
eral Robert E. Lee, and now the property
of the Government, does not appear to be
abandoned. A memorial recently present
ed to Congress by the son of the late rebel
leader sets forth at length his claim to the
estate, and argues that its purchase by the
United States at a sale for a direct tax as
i gessed by the Government gives no valid
title. The Government, it is insisted, has
! no exclusive control and jurisdiction unless
j the State consents to the purchase. Seve
ral cases are cited and references made to
establish the petitioner's right to the prop
erty, but he adds that he is willing to avoid
litigation and allow it to remain a3 a natio
! nal cemetery upon the payment of a just
! compensation, he in turn executing a legal
deed conveying a complete and fvalid title
to the same to the United States.
We have no means of determining as to
whether the validity of the purchase of
this estate by the Government can or can
not be maintained, but we are quite clear
in the opinion that the property should
never be surrendered to any member of the
Lee family or to any other person who will
divert it from the use to which it ia iu part
now applied. Along the slopes and ridges
about Arlington house theve lie the re
mains of thirteen thousand Union soldiers,
who gave their J *ves for the nation which
[Terms, Two Dollars a Year, in AfVmbs;
Lee and his followers sought to destroy.
Within the shadow of the mansion stands
the monument commemorative of their va
lor and their loyal service to the cause of
liberty of law. To this spot thousands of
men and women from all parts of the land
annually resort to pay tribute to the memo
ry of the heroic dead. Every white head
board in this wilderness of graves is a proof
aud a reminder of the value and the cost
of the Government and nation which wero
saved from the clutch of slavery and trea
son. To permit ground so sacred to pass
again into rebel hands would be to couseut
to the obliteration of these eloquent memo
rials of the sacrifice of our best and bravest
■ desecration of the plowshare driven head
long over the ashes of our sainted kindred.
If the people of this country supposed for
an instant that the Government would
consent to such an infamy they would
swarm over Arlington Heights by tens of
thousands to resist the shameful consum
mation. If money is needed to make our
title to the land good and valid every loyal
man iu the land will freely contribute to
that end. At all hazards the estate must
be retained in the control of the nation,
and Congress, we are sure, will not so lhr
ignore the wishes of the people ns to even
gravely consider the demand now made for
itsrelease. —Newark Courier.
A French Hercules.
Mans. Henri Joignerey, the French Her
cules, arrived in the Adriatic, under mii en
gagement to perform in Barmini's Hippo
drome, the opening of which is announced
for the 20th inst. Joignerey’a name is
known throughout Europe, and his exhibi
tions of strength have been applauded in
all the principal cities on the continent.
He was born in Paris in 1836. He visited
Madrid, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Berlin,
and other European cities, and often ap
peared in the presence of the nobility, from
whom he received elegant presents. In the
grand circus in Berlin he was honored with
au ovation. Returning to Paris he was
for a season in the Follies Bergero. lie
eclipsed all other performers in his exhibi
tions of strength, and was dubbed the
French Hercules. The great showman,
Barnum, soon discovered him, and engaged
him for the Hippodrome.
A Sun reporter, expecting to see a giaat
when he went to Mr. 8. H. Hurds office,
in the Hippodrome, to meet Joignerey f
saw instead a modest, unassuming, compact
ly built man, scarcely over five feet six in
ches in height, and weighing about 180
pounds. He is of light complexion, and
lias a pleasant address: His hair is brown
and thin, and his mustache is kept artisti
cally waxed. lie carried a light cane, and
acted like a well-to do Frenchman seeking
pleasure. No one at a glance would' sup
pose he has the strength he is credited
with. He whs pleased to see the reporter,
and said that he was delighted with A nicri
ca. The reporter with both hands could
not encircle the largest part of his arm ; the
flesh was as solid as marble, and the gym
nast laughed when the reporter vainly tried
to pinch his legs. Joienerey will perform
in the ring feats never before attempted by
any other athlete. He will hang from a
trapeze by his feet, an with straps around
the body of two horses, raise the aii'inul?
from the ground.
“You mean ponies, don't you ?” asked
the reporter.
“No, no,” answered Joignerey, “horses,
say 1,500 pounds each, in Moscow they
gave me such heavy horses that the mus
cles of my arms were lengthened by lifting
them. 1 will raise one horse with my teeth.”
Here Hercules opened his month and laugh
ingly called attention to his fine, white,
but not very large teeth. He Continued,
“I will hang from the trapeze and lift two
men with my teeth, or I will lift six men
with my hands.”
The reporter saw the dumb-bells which
Joignerey uses. One weighs 275 pounds,
and another 325. Hercules lifted one and
then the other, seemingly with ease. On
the 275 pounder he will bear a full-grown
nmn. Hanging from the trapeze he can,
he says, hold a ball weighing 300 pounds,
by means of a strap, in his teeth, and at
the same time have a ball ofthesamo
weight in each h ami:—A eir York Sun.
Panning in Georgia.
! The Atlauta Herald uudor the above
l caption, says:
There ure some cheering signs for Agri
culturalists in Georgia. The papers from
every part of the State, and private letters,
indicate that the cotton inauiuis subsiding*
and planters have concluded hereafter, to
till the earth by the lights of experience
and common sense. We at one time fear
ed that they were impervious to the truth
but the sheriff ami starvation have at lust
driven them into the paths of wisdom.
The Grangers have also contributed
much toward this result, and all honor is
due them for their patriotic agency iu
bringing it about. They have preached
until it has at last come to lie heeded, tho
grand economic maxim that no agricultu
ral people ever yet prospered who failed to
raise their own food. Reports generally
represent that two acres of com and one of
cotton is the inlc of onr planters for 1874.
Thev will find it to work well, and 'hav®
only to stick to it to woik cut their com
plete redcji.i tii n. When Georgia conies
to produce her own tread and meat, she
will be the richrst State in the Union. To
say nothing of other articles of export,only
think of her keeping at home annually the
many millions brought into the btute 1-y
the cotton crpp 1 IV hat would this money
not do for her? Instead Os being-.a com
munity of debtors, nearly everybody would
be owing us. while that portion of our sur
plus invested at home would cause Ike vkl
State to blossom Ilk t the her peo
ple to be atnoiig to- nost independent 1 of
the earth.
NO. 45.