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WATHRMAN
thubsday mobning,
AT PEEEY, GA
DAVID HUNT.
A STORY OF WESTERS' LIFE.
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PO ETR Y.
nr SIAIiGABET J. HBESTON.
A little child, whose i-hytii/ns of laughter
smoothed
All household dissonance away—whose step
Chapter II-—Continued
David Hunt and his-companion had
ridden hard in hopes of making .their'
way through the" woods before the
storm came on, bat. there was full six
miles of forest cut only by the narrow
and brokexuoad through which night
travellers passed with some danger
even in the best weather. But they
had- scarcely cleared a third of their
way when the rain began to fall in
great heavy- drops, and the storm mus
tered around them with terrible force.
Tho -hoaszy. fonurhorses which they
rode stumbled in the deep - - ruts ;; and
became almost unmanagable as-the
thunder came crashing peal'after peal
over head, and the woods around
seemed a-fire with lightning. Still
the riders urged them forward, for the
peril seemed equal if 'they returned-' or
pursued their way home.
“Great heavens! did you see that?”
exclaimed Shay, -reining in Ins horse
with a linn hand and pointing in the
direction wheneo they had come.
“I thought it had struck some
where,” . replied Hunt, cheeking his.
horse for a moment and looking back.
“Ha, it is the old. tree at the cross
roads. How the flames shoot up, it
was as dry as .tinder._ Thank Heaven,
while it burns we shall have light
enough to heep our horses from break
ing their knees' in the confounded mud
holes. ”
‘tHearthfitf’ exclaimed Shaw, and
his face..changedyn' the.red light.
“Heavens and earth! it-is upon us
—what .shall we do?” cried Hunt,
wheeling his horse suddenly, and the
light from the burning tree revealed
luikface also white with terror as he
rode back a few paces and drey,- up
again, agitated and irresolute.
“Wd may as well go f lor ward'. there
is. nothing to choose. It-will be npoj;
us long before we can clear the wood
.either, way,” shouted. Shaw,, -looklijg
back. “Lord prA-eiwe us! it will be
an awful gust, and' Hannah is - alone!
Hunt spoke loud and joined Sliaw
■as he uttered these words, but the
noise of the elements u^HKiave over
whelmed a band of ^.gapets, and no
one heard him: Terrified into almost
supeiuutrad exertion, the Viv.-o hoi-res
plunged on, stumbling, leaping, and
.Sbiiieffmtrs th*'
storm like dfnnkJn* creatures. Thu
riders spoke to each other again and
again, shouted '-even, but the rushing
wind 'swept away them voices, audh-qt'
for the quick flashes of lightning
which every^inataiit reveal d their
pallid'faces - each - to the other they
could not have kept together.
Still the terrific storm was not upon
them in its.full might. The thunder
boomed and crashed overhead, Die
giant frees were laced together through
and through with fiery lightping! the
wind was strong and high; but far
“Shaw, are yOu hurt?—answer me,
ing a glance -through the it msihgthe body to life; he-' looked j clasping.tli°ir equally nude' little ones j li
the former, hoaise withterrori |door, a&if amrions fotlhe'/ajpearaace ji thar to the right nor left, but with biting cold! [_
the fierce .storm.
‘ “Speak! do speak! I dare not ride
on, the horse might tread you to death
in the dark. Are you calling out?—-
the storm is so loud I might not hear
if you did—try,' try, the least shout
will tell me where, you-are r’
Another Sash of lightning revealed
Shaw’s horse, and with a shout of joy
Hunt saw the figure of a man rise from
fhe earth arid spnig.upbh his back.—
•The next instant all was darkness
again; but Hunt felt.the. horse of his
companion-pressing close to his side'as
the two animals urged their way, breast-
to breast, through the abating storm.
“Were you hurt?” shouted Hunt,-
anxiously, feeling in the dark for his
companion’s hand,, which hung mo
tionless and dripping byhis sirie.
"Z<o' no, ji limb swept me fi'om- 'the;
saddle, that was .all!”
“Thank God it was no worse!” ex
claimed Hunt, in a voice which be
spoke the hearty, gratitude which he
felt, and, wringing the damp hand
which he had seized; the good' man-
uttered another fervent “thank God.”
That instant a glare of lightning
passed over them. Hunt sawstiie face
of his companion, and liis warm fingers
tightened on the hand they had en-
locked.
‘ ‘How white—ho.w strange you look!”
he said, powerfully agitated! “Shaw,
own it, you are hurt, I hardly -know
you- with thatfaee!”
The hand which David held was
wrung harshly Horn his grasp, and the
reply which reachedj^iih, like- ell that
had gone before, was broken and half
drowned by the storm.
“No no, it -is only -the lightriin
My hqiv 4 e is lamed though. You must
break the way -for us. ”' ’
'As these words were uttered, the.
speaker fell back and rode behind
Hunt till a-light gleamed from a little
window in the distance, like jj, star
hi-avhig the stormy night to guide the
wanderers home.
“There, there Hannah is up and
waiting fgr us,” cried ihe glad father,
and, urging their horses on, the trav
elers. dismounted at' the. cabin dboy.
“The horses have had a tough- time'
of it, ” said Hunt, shaking the - water
.from his garments; “they must be fed
first.”
‘ T will fake care of them, go in, go
in, exclaimed his comsuinion,. holding-
forth. the bag of money; “put tins
away—I will cofrie buck in.a minute.”
David took the money in blip Jnmd
oak, softly, as if he was afraid of | shivering front th£ freezing air, yet \ cherry tree;” and then whipped him
in: 30na- a:ici.
Charles Bonaparte and Lsetitia las
wife, respectable citizens of Ajaccio in
Corsica, were the parents 'of eight
children, one of whom became an em-
peror and the greatest of modem-con--,
auerois, three became kings, one a-
queen, one rdigning fSovereign, und
one a princess. This -unexampled-
• suddenness of fortun? ppraug,nt is true
i'irom Vie extraordinary genius one
brother alone. But it is no‘t the itoss
like blazes. tame' that the whole family w 'TO c&-
This lesson was not lost upon the ^dowed-with for more than the ii”cl
VCTt} fixed OH file sfrnfTfflo fftT life onrl cofefrr 4-rxTl rt# Voore -nocead nr» IrAw T\o/tomo o
Jill, I remember, that made him fling! £ ifcring^es were fixed on the - dark
off my hand so savagely; weR it may | fi?s^y(^id^ not on the gloomy- ob-
not be much after all!” |
he drew
. and-lower
so subdued that.it scarcely reached her j knees sunk in the ground,- and
ear. [l^d about in flie mud andherbage, abouthaE-pasttweiveo’eloek,andwas
“Father, ” she said at length, laying ! ; if in seach of something.- His hand aroused, lie -thinks, about half-past
Shed fee blade of a knife, half- °ne,-hy cries of >^ave .my miild!-save
her hand on his arm, “tell me," tall me j
all! where is Isaac?”-
“Out there with the horses, I tell
you,” replied-.Hunt, shaking off tiie_
strange feelings prbdfteedby the blood
upon his hand; and speaking out with
his usual frankness. “ There, put
awry the money in my chest, I had
■forgotten it.”
•Setting, the bag of money .on a com
er of the table; Hunt began to exam
ined in. the earth. he grasped it. by ?? «M# r ^|,. fire!-fire!”-He sprang
jinds, laughed a honible chokini
-ugh as the blade shook in the maon-
ghk
“You will bear no evidence against
ae now, old- friend,” he said; in
aiee that fell upon the air so. strange
, - oiitbf his bed and foiindTris.room full
pouit, s2>rung to his feet wish a of smoke, so dense that it-was imiios-
irp breath, and holding it before able to see Ms haiid before him. He
in. clenched eagerly with both -hurriedly; put bn liis doth.es and gath
ered a few other pieces of apparel in
Ms hands, and as rapidly as- piossible
made his escape from tlie hotel. He
passed along tlie main passage on the
third floor of the building and th.enee
down what is known as tlie ladies’stair
way. TMs passage was so densely
filled with smoke as to make Jt neces
sary for Mm to hold Ms breath as
much ks.pqssiMe. from, his room down
had ’4pken Ms thoughts. ’All was to ike parlor-flob^'lwo stories^ below.
,, , , , , At the tune he left his room the fire
\ T- . [ke murderer had been was buisting.into the rooms at the eh-
frighte d by his own voice, and slunk trance of the passage below Mm. As
away \j h Ms face- still turned back he passed through the hall he cried
toward ie body, though he Hid never hra, _ bangediipon. and bluest open
, , - several doors and aroused the inmates,
once lo md upon it. Ou0 pf tHuse he ascwtiline d was ^
Anot >r horse was tied in a hoEow, pied by G. A. Slisfiter, Esq., Supeiin-
searcef twentyqiaces down from the tendent of Public Printing, who in
road, ti ough ail the hurricane,- and form ^ tis tliat 1x0 owes the saving of Ms
*->«-« ii-ji.- jj • -i- i life to Mr. Alfriend* Mi-. A.-lost Ms
• , . IP _ . --ii-i tli : ghtmng firing. Ms eyes he jjBnuy valued at"%t2.500; pictnres val-
coines in; ne 13 urippuig wet, I can had-sti d without wincing; but now ued at §300, and aU Ms clothing,
tha t ,Rj aw his master coming heavily !Chb aeAkii outside.
coward pm ha began to paw the Bind. It was sometime after the first cry
with If hoof, and gave-a faint neigh, of fire in the building before there was
The mi - parted Ms lips, and tried to alarm outside—in fact- John Cooly
f i -•. -' -, , ,, , . . , who came down the street about this
check f is manifestation of loy, but - - „- v- ■ , . • . - J
- . • - • - . tune.and -went into a restaurant near
the worts died m ins husky throat, by, inf arms ns that he could see no
and me nting with difficulty he rode sign of a fire in the .direction, of 'the
away, 1 int and wavering to and fro Spotswood although he heard the cry.
j • ■, .. Subsequently he came out with John
, Jackson, the proprietor of the r-estau-
[to coxtixtjei) et ouE xext.’J xaiit, and found that the Spotewood
-was on fire. He does not think fif
teen minutes elapsed before the entire
they were in.
Hanfiali took up the bag with a shud
der, for the canvas had' a red stain
.upon it; she placed it in the chest
pointed put by her father,, and gave
Mm the. key with a foree'd smile,
which looked ghastly onlips so pallid
as hers had become.
“Come’now, biistle about aiul gpt
some dry clothes ready- against Shaw
tell you,”- said Hunt with renewed
cheerfulness, “but .first bring ,iae a
basin of water to wash my
Vthere on earth can, this have- come
from?” he muttered; while laying Ms
hands in,.the basin, and once more Ms
face took an anxious expression. -
Hannah had already.!, prepared dry
armenfs both for her father and his
guest. Hunt went into Ms own little
bed-room, and came out dry and com
fortable. Still Shaw did not appear.
Hannah seated herself, at the table,
broke the corn bread 7 and poured out
a cnj> of tea; Hunt took the cup, set
it down untasted;; and, leaning his
elbows on the table,- waited for his
companion to come in. At last -he
started up and. went, to the door; a
horse was standing near,'‘with a saddle
on and his-bridle dragging along the
••wet-grass.- It.was M3 own horse.—
The:old man started axitrintAthe rain
caught the horse aridded him' toward-
the stable, where he expected to find
Shaw. All was stiff in tha log stable,
the Spot, was open, but no living- thing
stirred within. Hunt shouted aloud,
again-and; again; he went into the
house Jov a lantern, anil .searched
everywhere for hip friend; Hannah
followed Min in silence, the tears run-
Snmii ; of tha Spottswaod Hotel in
Fncimond- —
From he Eichmond 'WMg, 2Gth inst]
Eich fond, prenm; but humiliated
brave,! at sorrow stricken; beautiful,
yet evel clad in mourning, it seems
hap nolyet reached the dregs .of her
cup ofpittemess. - Not alone did the
i a . . - -ijt^'grofiud with their steam engines
great f -o of April; - 60, sv\ r eep away in othgj,apparatus, but owing- to the
a siuglJ morning the earnings of lives fact tha^the pings were frozen, found
indcsti ously sfient in the accumula- difficulty in procuringvy-ater with their
tion ol weiilth and competency and a bcup‘omed dispatch. Despite the
leav||hose, Mtherfo comfortable, leather, however, wMch turned water
hou^li ss, and in.: many eases p^my- on, but found that to Save the Spots-
less, pi t it has been followed by many wood was a useless task and that the
and ju! h quickly succeeding disasters, Grant buildings were doomed. The
.-ind puffed the hitch- stung with fhe niag down her pale face, and oj»press-
Ixuj fern I d abraifiM.^l.-.rtft anxiety su-b as bad never
when the light.fell on biiji Through filled hei>iie:irt before. IF was all 5T
vain; no yoiee answered' the anxious
shout of David HisEt Once he lieald
alnglfilw- Jfat-iritt anxiety
through filled iierMeartf®
ihe door and led the horses away with
out answering Hunt, who shouted after
Min to hurry back, for Hannah -was
waiting with supper on the table. ?
'Sure enough supper was on the 4a-
bie—ii cake of rich coru-brcad, warm
from the fire—a young chicken nicely
broiled, and. a saneer.of goidc-n butter
somctliijig like the quid--. ‘ tramp of a
Kept tiinc to the fight meas; of lit-r heart; 4: d<rwn iii the forest came a stiff indr
Whose irolic-naiuro claimed a 11 kuHlriabJnp . _
Witli jit-lii:!, jubiliint. things to- piteously terriolo .sound. Thew.-iirlv/ind wa
Moaniug, held in tiie gntsp oi mortal jiaiu.
The sportive look ffieij out >vi'.hiu. her eyes,
The quip .jqiou her tongue, the niiKlitul-
qiup jii>on
ness
From the j’oung voice, ns tjie sunshiny path,
Where tlaucod with her the Jairy-looted
hours,
Darkened beneath the siniden shadow that
c;une
^talking between her and fife’s new-risen
sun.
3he raised a troubled glance:
lather?”
* What is it,
And he made answer: ‘ ‘Only a messenger
“Whom Ihc dear. Lotd hath skit to call you,
Sweet,
Away from all things sa.d, jp a fiir land
Where it is always heantifiil summer-time.”
Startled^ about fee stooping neck she clung
With passionate burnt of childlike uiicoritrol:
“Go with-.me, fitther,- foy i am afciid;!- 1
I shiver at the creeping of the iliirk;
I tremble 1 ! Xet mo hold vour dear, warm
hand;
O father ... not clone! Why even here
Abpnt this pretty world J have not ventured
To walk untonded—
. “Little trembler, no,—
Xou shall not go untended, Christ himself
Has travelled the. pathway through, apd
made it bright; - ' ’- k ■ ,
And now He leaves .the seraph-songs alitfioj
To come iind.hold my lender baby's hand:
And just outside the dhskir-bgbme call it.
■ death)— * ■ *»
waits to b
Aid watches for yowattfe'gate:
We’ve talked about righi 0 fUm: i
so close,
You will not be afraid?’’.
j- The
Closed as if weighted by too heavy a
And in a silence, solemn and str—- J
She lay as grappling with a inn
tered
Her fitfle powers. But when again, she
Upon her &feer her full eyes, the fear
Had vanished, end the radiant look of joy
•Two ladies in
coining up from, file dark-north, hear
ing onward with a fierce, fnsMng rortr,
and’crushing down the mighty forest
in its path-j-on and on it cainafEkh a
mighty ocean heaving loose from its
foundation,-?. And now Jj was upon
them! The two 'horses stood stiff
.quaking with terror,' their riders cast-
themsglves forward upon the sMveriug
beasts, clung to their dripping necks,
apd they too were motionless. -
On it came,'gathering new strength
and terror. The hoarse winds, the
thunder, and the noise gf giaut trees
uprooted like reeds .and clashed to the
earth, mingled together and deafened
the very Heavens. '
The air lvas black with crouds of
mangled foliage—great limhs of tress,-
jmisses of loose. Ieaves--vines twisted
asunder and saplings torn up by the
roots. went rushing by. Tke * wind
now scattered them abroad—now drove
'them together in Messes. The light
ning.shot its fiery through and through:
tlfem, phd-hhe rain; miiigled witli-ii; all
not with the soft irilliiag sweetness of,
waMrfdrops that|a!I ggstiy from the
clouds, but blent with.afftheturbulent
elements that.made Hie night horrible.
Still the horses grofrched thqir limbs
together and buried thgif hoofs deep
ill the carth,. and ihe riders cliing- to
them awe-stricken and -briritjfiess—«ff'
at once the ground, begin to heave
under fli_em. Tha earth tom up
aIf.aroaad^-a,gye>it oak, whose ! roots'
were tangled-under the so;} far
the road, fell crashing
them. The. maddened horses
forward—the outer - hrandies
falling tree almost brushed” thi
ieats! and ftbRngB";.
tong If^ruaoss.the rood j ;!s ; vvhere ihey
ma for 1 jj a ^ peep an iiistah't before. The
horse which David Hunt roefe daared
iiorso. down in tfes wffods; the sound
lasted but an instant,'iind both father
and daughter wont into the house,
filled with trouble and consternation.
. The whirlwind went by; the rain
just from the churn stood' tcm,pfcgly- ceased, and ijMgwjgti died- moaning,
ready on the snow-white table-cMth., amid the torn iciffage; the filocr. came
There was prctly Hannah,, her Chheks
all rosy with thehoat/iioiuing W stream,
of sparkling hof water, from the clumsy
kettio into a litthi britaunia 'tea-pot,'
bhliered with long use, but bright as.
silver, which had been standing-on tlie
hearth at least two hours with the lid
-tcmi>tingly- Ihrown-bnck an'd ready to
receive the water, - that -kept siri^ng
away in the kettle, at .any moment.
“So you have come—-I thought it 1
was you,”' ex-gliiimed Hannali;-closing
fhe lid of .the. tea-pot, and going up to
her'fathor,!her sweet face ..sparkling
with gratified joy, slie. finug lier arms
around the ojd man’e neak and kissed
Ms wet cheek. -
“Have you been much, frightened,
darling?” said the old man, tenderly
■taking her RMd in his.
-“Oh^ycs, Toryjaudi till I heard you
coming. I was so -afraid ggif you
would get hurt in the wooffa I- have
been crying here all alone lialf the
evening, arid yet it seemed as if .pH
would turn out well, aad so it- has—
here you are, but Isaac, he did not lei
yonyosie back alone?”
“Oh, no—ho ■ is turning, put-the,
horses-rtat a trep feff; <dofe by us and
he got- a foil—nothing to talk of
though,” added the kind man,, ob-
serving’that-thc cheek of his danghtcr
turned pale, ■ '
. “Yen are sefre no onejshnrt?” said
Hannah; in. a low voice, winding her
fingers around the’ huge hand which
was clasping them. -* '
“Yes, yes, what is tlie inatter—
ivhaFaila your-hand? - Yen are not
afraid of a/ffitlc water, arc you?”. 5
Ew turned to the. light and
looked earnestiy at the. fingers her
Rither had' been- clasping: they were
crimson with-bloodir.t^p^^" &££'■
-x—mv father, youare. hurt, and
md-ragg&yuxd hanwed np aqifr'had
been with the stor 1a—on the shfltterecl
trees—the herbage broken arid soiled,
and heaped together in ridges on the
places it had beautified token the sun
I went down. Like a Christiaa soril
in New York were talking 1 the tree first, and w as plub^ng on in
about the spairows and their, n^fnil
ness in ridding the city of the canker-
worms, wMch used to be such a nub
sauce. One said that the noisy chirp
ing of sparrows early, when she want-:
ike .darkness, when a sharp cry cut to
his ear, even through the storm.-
Hunt grasped the bridle- with lu-th hU
strong hands, and, putting forth
his strength, wheeled his horse round.
ed to sleep, was as great an evil as the 1 for Shaw was stiff 1;chunk A flash of
Worms; the other disagreed. Just then i lightning revealed his home without a
q gentleman came in and was appealed rider; Shaw was upon the ground—a
to: “Mr. A , which do you think.; black mass that might be a heaw limb
the worst—sparrows or worms?” He j of the falling tree, or a k
immediately answered: “I don’tknow,; stooping over him, was betrayed
I never had sparrows.” ! an instant and all was blaek ng,,,,,
eager to ffing a.iuanfto of charily over
the ruin which sin has made, that
peaceful moon wove a veil of misty
silver amid the^devastation- which, but-
for it, would have been dreary indeed.
But- there was one object lyingin the
cart-road deep in the forest, wMchthe ;
pure moonbeams but rendered more
horrible. It was g human form, flung
like a slaughtered animal across the
trunk of-the oak wMch Hunt had seen
uprooted' but an hoai- before. The
lax limbs were entangled in a bough
wMek was broken, 1,'ent-' and crushed
by their weight; the free was turned
upward, wMte, cold | and ghiistly,
among a mass of leaves, matted to
gether -by tlie dark- stream wMch
trickled heavily down from Fhe'body
upon them. . _
: There were none of thosa'peasant
sounds of dropping waterwMcii would
was on fire, and perished iii going
out in the firmament once more, smil
ing, Eke the eye of an unconscious -The wonder is, -under the ciremnstan- , . . . .. - ,,
diffil, ^mfiio avild.scene below. Itjces-so rapidly did the flames gam ErasmsJ*Doss washed^
lookc-dto-qinly ‘upon the earth, toyri headway—that many others were not Miss Cbrneli% the. housekeeper of
the Spotswood. She was a'native of
New York,/
l Samuel W. Eobiuson.
burned to death.
And this is the Christmas to wMch
we have looked with pleasing.anticipa-
rions; this is the feast for wMch our
people, ati masse, were .preparing Sat
urday with such cMMlike eamestness
and enthusiasm. Instead of mirth,
festiyily arid friendly congratulations,
we .now have death,- suffering ■ and
mourning, instead of anthems of
prajge and songs of joy, that
“To us a child of hope is bom,
To us a son is given,”
the! cypress takes the place of the
cedar and the ivy, and lamentations
struggle for life and safely to tell of
the events of this terrible-morning, in
wMekHiey lived an age in a few mo
ments. ’
ME. EDWAED JI.'aI.FEIEXd’s STATEilEXT.
Mr. Edward 5£ Alfiiend occupied
room Np 39 in the’hoteL He retired
Years passed on, the boy became a
mari,. and still as he pettifogged it in
the Police-Courts, the words of Ms sire
rang through his brain,, and urged Mm
on to new deeds of chicanery , and
“smartness” nntil as the rebellkm
broke ant he sewed about four pounds
amount of ettesgy and ability- Some
of this, again, has -been tranSTFiried to
thefr cMKren. XU 4hc Iwiso^-®*
grandchildren to diaries «Kd laetiihw,
one lias revived the. splendors—and
the misfortunes, too of the first em
pire; eight or nine of themhave becoinu
building was hi a blaze, the flames
reaching with a resistless grasp for the.
tated by the.wiipl, which was blowing,
in that,■direction.
/leipi; FIRE. EjGIKES, ETC.
. Ijly'iMs time the firemen were on
of brass things arid gold lace on Ms ’ authors ofrrcpnte—two boSig- each in
coat and s^-sac^rfngly volunteered his own line, of gtoat distinction; while
- in none of them has there ever ap
peared an appesaunee of weakness,
or folly .in the direction. It is only a
hundred years, since the first of them
—Joseph—was lxim: and only tea
years since the youngest of them—
Jerome—died: IVitiiiu the compiiss'
of a single life, they have governed
France twice, e;K.-h time with improve
ments'in the material recources of
the coimtry, quite clisiiroportioued to
the length of the reign and the diffi
culties they have encountered. They
have formed alliances, with the noblest
houses in Europe. They have been—
for good arid for evil—perpetually in
the months of men. They have fallen
hopelessly, and have risen unexpect
edly. They have had disastrous re
verses, and splendid success. They
have been alternately the sport and the
spoiled children of Fortune.
was. soon 'after appointed to a com
mand at New Orleans where he struck
a death-blow to the rebellion ■ by ap
propriating all the spoons'and. other
small wares of the rebels, thereby
cutting off their soup and greatly en-
riching himself; afterwards getting a
little job at Dutch Gap and distinguish
ing himself at Big Bethek
- -Anungrateful country at the close of
the war refused to make him President
but shoved him into Congress, where
lie stiffarepiains, an unmitigated nui
sance and an example to rising youths.
> . . MORAIi. '
'‘Virtue is its owri reward, ”
“Go thou aridHo likewise.”
The author is not altogether clenr as
to what the moral points; whether to
emulate the old man or Benjamin,
but he has the satisfaction of knowing
that the intelligent reader may pay Ms
money and take Ms choice.
Tee Esd.
then. 'Then came more, fires,, then mates of the hotel as they appeared at
the groit Capitol- disaster, with its 'the windows. Citizens, among them
long list of killed and wounded, then Mi'. Eobt. Scammel, Mr. Shields,- a
the mighty .flood of last fall, wMch son-bf,policeman 1 Shields, John Jack-
... „ . SOn, colored;andothersequaffyiJsac-
came upon ns as if the very mountains five whose names were not fuluishe'd
rtrfr ,j& - v .j.
orirdevoted eapitdL . And, now, the Hie up^er slsrie3 by sheets—and their
last and riot the least sad, is the bum- co °fe ess a rid bravery saved lives wMch
ing of Spotswood Hotel, and with it a must ^ have been ° <il g WISO lo ^-
bl|ick of splendid buildings on our w .she kkowk ehijEd.
r ii 10 -mi i . v-j Wedo not believe that, even alter
e thoroughfare and ra thc yeiy nearly twenty-four houisbad elapsefe
iiaut of tlie city. We would tliat we tlxat tlie number of persons wlio lost-
cqalcl stop liere and prdceed to estir tlieir lives is known. It is certain,-
tlie great loss of dollars and kp wever > itot the following were all
cintS, but we cannot, for five more «Ms temble CMistmas Ca-
Ifves’hve afready known to have been Samuel Bines, aged abont -tMrty,
arid others injured, to what ex- was a native of Caswell county, N. O’
teritwenrenotable yetto determine He got down stairs while the building
The Thing Explained.
In passing the mouth of a lane-last
night, we overheard two old darkies
discussing the political situation, and
especially B.east Butler’s bill for
“general amnesty.”
Friday—-“Sam, what you call -dis
dam-nasty bill de buekra be talkin’
’bout so much? Is dey gwine to’duce
de niggers to slab’ry agin?”
Sam—“Wly, nigger, you don’t read
de papers, does you? You clean out
de secret, all hollow. 'Why, dat dam-
nasty bill’s a cute thing. Massa
Butler fix urn up just, ’bout right,
and it’s got nnffin to do wid niggers.
De rebels, is wot he’s arter. You see
dem what fit in de war, and was’sjiec-
table ’fore it cum, is sorter tied down
and niggers and de carpet-baggers gits
all de offices.—Now, dese ’spectable
rebels want to be let up, and dey’s
been knockin’ at de doors ob Congress
format dey calls a pardun, which
means forgibness for de ugly fitin’
dey gib de Yankees. De Yanlcecs sav
aff right, but Butler inus’ draw de
bill, and call um dam-nasty, and I
rcekon de rebels will tliink it dam-
nasty, suro enuff, for it- ties down
more’nitlets up, and de more ’spec-
table dey is de tighter dey is tied. Now,
you know wliat de dam-nasty biff am.
Gi’ me a chaw of tobacker.”—Sauai-
uah Republican.
rama
completes the list of victims, as far as
ascertained.
TEE INJURED.
Mr. Clarke, .one of the hotel stew
ards, leaped from a third story win-!
dow, and. was smiously injured. H e
fractured his tMgh and ankle.
Mr. C. B. Luck was quite-painfully
burned; and Mr, Schaffter slightly.
F. N. Green, clerk in the office of Su
pervisor Fresbuy, was‘slightly hint by
-are bome'from house to house, and f&Mng of glass,
sorrow from heart to heart. a faiaii reap.
tee oniGEi OF the Enas. During the -fire, an unknown man
About fifteen minutes past -1 o’clock Maped from the upper story, and as he
on Sunday morning, Patrick Byrd,! a reached the ground a wall fell tqjon
colored office/ervant at.the Spotswood Mm, crushing him instantly' to death.
Hotel, .comer' -of Eighth arid Main Captain Huffman, of'the Petersbnrg
streets, was proceeding to wake np the Eailroad, reaped from a window, and
female servants, -whose duty it was sustained no injury,
thus early to scour-the hotel,- when, The loss of property by this fire was
.on reaching, the' passage leading to the immense, of. wMch the insurance com-
diriing-rpom, on the next floor above panies bear a large proportion,
the. office, he discovered ari -unusual’ ■ > 0 c
siuoke, and a rapid mvestigatioir dis- EENJASHN T. BtlTLEB.
closed-to him that it proceeded- from -
the pantry, a wooden .connection be- Benjamin Franklin Butler, the hero
tween the kitchen and dining^rooni, 'of this sketch was bom. in. the year
to
It can, be sustained by former mem
bers of the Eadical party, who no longer
v act witli it. *'■ '
He can be impeached for conspiring
the State out of the Union,
for browbeating and bnilyirig the jieo-
ple by means of the United States
soldiers, for perverting and misappro-
" e revenues of the State, for
>f its bonds illegally and ex
pending- the money in afl sorts of
manner not authorised, by law,in ke ep
ing a large number of irresponsible
vagabonds around' Mrn under the
guise of clerks and paying them sala
ries put. pf the State Treasury, fm: al-
Eriowles. the night'clerk, of Ki'g ppn- was siredhy a Bevolutionaiy ancestor th® State Boad to be run as a
elusions. Both thereupon hurried to end bom by a ContinentaL-dani. Hfo ' “cTirtm.! —.. -rt
the pantry, forced the door, and found early-days Were spent ;dn: peace'arid
fimteven in this short time the smoke ~ '
arid flames hath inerecseS'’ so A rapidly
that the former was issuing in every
direction. To give the alann .of fire
ShaQBuIloeh be Impeached?
JL F'ra7n -the Albany Ahws.J
The election news from every county
in the State indicates that, the Radi
cal party has been well nigh annihilated
In every direction the.glorious tidings
come that the people have spoken, and
their voice is in condemnation of that
party wMch has usurped our liberties
and- made the most extraordinary ef
forts to bankrupt the State. The ghiu
news leaps down from the mountains,
it comes .up from the plains, it swells
upon every gale. Even our little boys
rejoic.e at the near termination of the
ride of that infomons band of scalawags
carpet-baggers, convicts and slaves,
who have for two years , past revelled
in the halls of our Legislature, polluted
-our Courts of justice, and stolen the
revenues of the State.
One more step is necessary in or
der to completely strike off the sWkfog
of Georgia: arid that is. the impeach
ment of Bullock.
Iri;the first place, he was never elec
ted Governor of Georgia. ; Gen. Gor
don’s actualjnajprity was 7.213 votes.
Ample, proof to establish this- fact,is
now the haridapf Judge E. G. Cabiness.
But- the testimony neednot rest here.
JOHN T. HOFFMAN.
■ This gallant young American, the
present Governor of New York, has ev
idently the. inside track to the next
Presidency. AH eyes are turned to
him as the Democratic nomin ce, and if
entered for the nice he is not apt to
be beaten. The enemy have never
yet failed to bite the dnst under the
weight pf Ms stalwart arm. Success
seems to crown nH Ms aspirations:
Indeed, fortune seldom fails to smile
on such men as Hoffman. Few men
possess more to commend them to
popular favor and esteem. To fine
abilities he unites a dauntless courage,
a spotless character, arid the energy
of a tornado in all he undertakes'
Among all the Politicians of the
North, we believe he is the only one
whose personal character has never
been assailed.—The Badicals, them
selves,-like and praise the man, and
the elections show that many of them
vote for Mm, despite his uncomprom
ising Democracy. The Badicals have
long sinee lost their entire political
stock in trado except Grant’s military
;lory, and that overshadowed and
blurred by an imbecile civil adminis
tration, in anything like a fair fight,
Hoffman would rout them in five-
sixths of the States of the Union. A
general amnesty would aHow the
South to pnt second on the ticket
some one of her great practical minds
_—such as Jenkins, or Johnson of
Georgia—in wliich event a political
ground-sweH would convnlse and elec-
trify.tliis whole section of the Union.
—Savannah Republibanr.
'wHl not teHme,” ahe. exclaimed, trim- smiting his way through the -mud,
- in".toward Mm and^holdihg, upfMfrigave .another sluggish sonsd tqi the
hand. “Oh. father, haw .could you i still night. _It. grew slower and more
deny it? See, your sleeve is spotted, , iaborious as the- jaded horse drew near,
your hand is wet with it; toil me, tell i and stopped altoge:
have foHowea a storm in ‘ the forestland '.fownipg with tiie'latter: ao-Ii. He 1492 at. Geneva, near Kenrieboak,
for the winds had’sweat the rain'aww I at ° nee ! corded that the house was SpMn, of poor bufc honest pareri^
., i ... A. .. . ... _ I On fi’*2-m that Quarter .and haitilvTP- whose gray hairs he succeeded in
... ^ bringing hr sorrow-to the grave, "fle;
was aH around?- But that siiaH cur- -------- • • - -
rent of blood,. wMling . slowly- down
over the - dieriehed ~ huritingrfrock,
4 wMeh himg arpimd the hody,’through
the crashed latveCip the earth, -drop
by drop, feff. qpoa the sweet air with
Hag^sh and .horrid monotony, stiff,
the moonbeams smiled upon the scene
as they bad smiled uponthe blossom
ing turf the night before.
The smothered hoofrfiill of a horse,
me.
/
1 uprooted oak. - 'A man, whose
■ looked, sharp and kaggarcl.in
a. fierce, unsteady blow with a stick hP 1
be= gathered up from the yayaide, which
1 not hurt ; sent the poor animal tearing down
: branches of t
erashad
to the sleeping occupariis of the hotel Haded off-a lot o;
quietude dnriijg which *0 deported wse. For pardoning notorioas J
liimsglf ..with detoram and virtue, rete - v . 0
wonderfrd in one so- -young. At the Tes - murderers out of peidten-
eariy age.of teymi his . venerable sire ! ali d saving them from the gal-
•Hint!” exclaimed Hunt, going
close to the light, where he examined
of his linen coat and his
ndin a state
wildei-ment; “Mat! no,
ut where did this come
cheek became a shade
00k-the. drops from hip H- Tlie
lere was water as wefias and the horse plunged, with clanking
hand—and an expres- stiiTnps and loose bridle, deep into the
and anxiety stole over forest.
- * rt ; ,lied away, the horseman crept toward ’ era,
was the work of a irioment, but it was
not-rapid enough, with- tdl their desr
perate haste, to arouse afl. the deep
Hewers who were dztesming;. imsori«a-
ous that a merciless enemy -was threat
ening their lives with.ai'prni-of death
at the mere thought of which we shud
der and grow, heart sick.
.TEE WlriD AliAElI THROUGHOUT THE
Hoimri. ' "" ’
Frantic men, wbirieri and cMldren wei
second hand hriteheti- Tins the.aric^- j - to f ” r rewards
tral Butlerwith teais in his Q?es, pre-;l"^ lel1 rt w®s necessaiy.; It is a riofori-
sented to Baajateinr saying, “now my j Ons fact that he rarely ever offered a
up ' reward for a negro who'had murdered
son distinguish yourrelf. w o ^ m a . w ^
that lot.of oyenwjo^ at tlie Htch^nr' , , ./
door, before your iaother tans ? j “.white man, orforawMfc man who
hide!”. t - * ha^ killed another, if the former was a
Tee Banner Counties.—The follow
ing comities may justly be called the
banner counties of the State: |
In Telfair the Badicals received
only thirteenfvotes. The Democratic
majenty is 486. In Irwin the Demo
crats received 400 votes, the Eadical3
none; Appling gives the Democats a
majority of 425—the Radicals not re
ceiving a single vote;. Coffee county
gives a clear Democratic majority of
500, without a dissenting vote.
—rt -
Grant’s !Sajt Domingo Jon—His
Tbiumth Ovee Sumner.—There was
great.rejoicing among:Grant’s ft-fouds
at the WMte. House on Thursday
morning after the passage of Morton’s
resolution for the appointment of three
commissioners to San Domingo. Sarit-
ner, by Ms denunciafions of the Pres
ident, has arrayed a force opposition
against him who threaten Ms removal
from the Committee on Foreign Eola
tions. Morton’s resolution is yet to
pass the House: General Banks wiH
be their champion. Then the commis
sion will be named, (Fred. Douglass
as one) and go to
Dominica. The programme now seems -
to be to make a new treaty of annex
ation for the consideration of the
Senate, for the reason that the
cannot make their trip
on in time for the'pres- ..
; and it i^agfeed that the
Democratic strengh in the Forty-sec
ond House no mere propositiori to an
nex Dominica by joint resolution can
succeed. So the administration falls
on another treaty.
. .? w. *'
got into a rough-rxid-tnmhle
fight at school and was bitten in the
forehead. “Boy,” said his father at
night, “did I net fell yen that I wonlil
•r yon got to lighting again?”
’t in a fight, sir: I hit myself
1 "Take care, hoy,
a orte for you. Hew c*ari
in the forehead?”
a chair.”
leaped from- tMrir beds at .this- cxy^pi
fire, to which was tffided the <xy of
murder, and a^ceuet foffo^ed-
of panfe-striakefi,
uman beings, c-tuled from
aers at such :in oour
night-by the. cry of fire an
townward.;a litde, rush of smoke into thc-ir bed-roems.—
■'i that all could have been arons- his dad who was
rit it was ordered otherwi.-ic*.— | branch of the prostrate ’
chid only m night-dothes, and tell a thousand lies, tlren cut do
rtAjfc, ^ ..j’ ■: -.,rt ’l..^
the deeds of this man eon
went; all law, contrary to Ms oath of ,
~- 1 -' arid.in usurpation of the liberties of
Georgia. My only object 11, *
announce that so soon as the
| tine assembles, tMs man mush
ask after the
Short, who
gout. “Ah, dr,”
‘he sufic-r worse limn
’ars frigtfully, l"scp|
poser” “Alas, sir, it is the only
he Etas leit.”
ception r the Radical party is dead.
Let the Legislature strike hiia down
and complete the work. And in doing ^onnd a man at work in a f
so let it exclaim in the Language of you see that birdv” ho •
Bichard— . «, T ' ’
“H there be ene spark of life left, * y siuea: isawthei
Down, down to hell, and say I sent vou - saw them fly too; an
there, * j flew so well they flew away ,
Dunhibk. j meat.