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| (By George Townscud. in the Chicago Tribune
of the llth.)
COLONEL HAW KINS.
■ A I OMUL'S II IHBJII.IN ON A FAMOUS KEXITCKtAK
“Dill you over Lear of Tom Ilatvkitis?’
j said an an of politics to me yesterday.
‘Tom Hawkins is the greatest duelist in
; Kentucky. lie is now Governor Steven
son’s tobacco inspi ctor at Louisville—a
j handsome man, with a black mustache,
and large glaring black eyes, which sel
d nil or never wink, hut lock oat like a
t’gci's with silent ferocity. He is per- !
| hups fifty years of age now, lint still one
; of the be -1 shots in Kentucky, and he
j has fixed up more quarrels and been a
! S-: fond on more fields than anv man a
| live.
I “IVrsnnul'y he is a gentle, trnthliil,
| faithful fellow, but he is deadly when
i he has made up his mind to cat. sonic-,
j body. Torn is of the best class the tin
| isht and dtt ‘list of the Smith, always nice
I up m points of honor, and prompt to ad
[ vise anybody to fight whom he thinks
! has been injured His last appearance
in proximity to the field of honor was
occas one.! by a mooted duel between
! two Cincinnati editors which never came J
Itoa si 01. People who know him send !
f r Tom in ease of a duel, just as you 1
j send for a physician and the preacher |
; when yin are sick. He was wounded at
[ Buena Vi to, and 1c was with If n’e. -i
son, Crittenden, Lojn •/. and the rest!
i when they invaded Cuba. During the
war lie was mi Brick i ridge’s 6la(T and
the nPairs ■ f private M- nd in which he
has bciu enga; <d are innumerable. For
iie-tance lie Mas lieu .1. dl las >li's . •CQotld
when he Kill, il T. in W'i.ile Did y< u j
< ver tear id' that?’’
1 N ! Oh! Tent Hawkins had to leave
1 the State for s -tne years after that duel. 1
I Old man White was there when Ben shot
; his son, and he went, on, awfully. The j
papers ra sand a howling row about that
duel. -Toni-White and Ben Johnson had
a fits- i.ier cards, both pretty full and a
! challenge passed. The women and fam
ilies on both sides took a big interest in
it, ai.<J I! ids mother molded the halls
| with In r own hands. She was all up
’ and r ive ab at it. I reckon slic’d shot !
I Hen herself if he hadn’t gone to the field. |
! Ben was all crippled up with the then- j
! mutism and they had to set him np and
| hand him his gun. They foitgl/t with
shot guns loaded with bo I. There was
| old man White haggling on the field a- j
bout points 1 folder the terms of ap dogy ]
otceleie, elector), when ’p qd went the
! gnus, and his son la’d dead at the old
j man’s f. ct, with a hole right through j
j ids forehead. They say it was dreadful j
to hear him g i on. I don’t know what ;
j l eeoinn of Be i Johnson.
“Oil! yes, bless your soul! Tom Haw i
; kins s.: ired John Pope most dead once, i
| Tiny weic at old General Wool's table j
. when P. pe impugned the courage of I
i General , and Torn Hawkins just
i glanced at him and opened out. Jo n
Pope had to take water,
j ‘Tom was Breckinridge’s second when
the challenge passed he tweed John and
Cutting. There Tom showed tli i gener
alship of Alexander the Great. Cut
ting's second was old President Mon
\ roe’s son, of the ri gol.tr army, and Torn
turned him Inside out. Ho put him on
the defensive, thundered at him, and got
John Breckinridge t ff ivi.h the honors
“Tom Hawkins is a terrible fellow. If
he 1 >uks at jin with his wide open eye,
full of fer city yen ire half gone up al
ready. When they tried Henderson in
New Oilcans and Judah Benjamin was
employed by the Spanish Government to
assist in the prosecution. Tom, whose
trial was to follow, raw what a terrible
longue II ;■ jainio had and he f dlowed
him out of the mart room and said:
‘ Look here, Mr Jew, I want to tel!
yon something If, when n y ttial c mts
iff you say cue word against my (dial
• etcl’ll kill yon in your tracks.”
“il. njamin saw these log eyes ready
ti jn q> out >1 Ton’s head and he said:
“Mr. n.ftwi' ins, I Hall not want to
I ave aj y and lli-rnily w;ta y a sir.”
1177UE SHALL THE FRSSS THU PEOPLE'S KIOHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWEO BY FEAE AND UNBHIBED BY G AIN.
QUITMAN, GEO., JULY 15, 1870.
[ “They did not convict 11 nli rson, and
: Tom never came to trial,
j “I reckon you never heard of T.-ni
Hawkins’ connection with the Fitch aid
Stop! en A. Douglas trial, did you? Thai
has never been published to my knowl
■dgo, but what was a remarkable epi
sode in preface to the Rebellion. Yen
see it was coming on toward the politi
cal Convention of lßf>9, and Douglas had
all the strength so that it was hard on to
a certainty that he would be nominated
and crowd out of the Bin lianan party
“I got sure information of the nightly
caucuses of Slidell, Jesse D. Fright How
I ell Cobb, Benjamin, and that faction in
i Washington—for they met at Cobb’s
S h< use chiefly ; and one day it canto to me
straight as a wire that they had deter
mined to force Douglas into a fight, and :
that Slidell should insult Douglas in the ;
drinking saloon of the Senate, and il hoi
resented it shoot him down. 1 wrote to j
Douglas at once, but knowing his hab
its so well of leaving letters unopened ;
sot days and weeks together, I sent the
tetter to a friend, ami commanded him
to make Douglas open it and peruse it,
that he’might lie prepared. And in that
I letter I said: ‘lf you are pushed to the
wall, telegraph for Tom Hawkins of
i Louisville,”
“Well I came on from the South soon
after that and went np with George
Pugh to s e Douglas, There we tonud
nobody to pay much attention to ns.—
Douglas seemed absorbed with some
thing else and looking out of his library
across the bull, I saw Roger Pryor and
Albert G. Brown, of Mississippi, step
into another room. I asked no ques
tions, but cume away, and soon after
ward started tor New York. When we
got to the Relay House there was about
three minutes delay, as the Western
I rain had just come in, and I saw get
out of it and step toward the Washing
ton train—who hut Tom Ilavvkins?
“Tom,’ I cried, ‘what are you doing
here?’
“What arc you doing away from
Washington?” sa’d Tom.
“tiding to New York."
"New York, what? Do yon get tne
here a.id then run off to New York ?
Douglas has sent tor me. The light’s
on!'
“I’ll get off my baggage at Baltimore,
said I and return to Washington to
iiight.’;
“And wilh that the trains steamed
contrary ways.
“I found out the matter at Washing
ton that, same evening. The conspira
tors had arranged force to an insu'tnpon
Douglas, and then il he challenged, lie
would lose the vote of the North. Ihe
refused nobody in the South would touch
him. ’The creature of tile conspirators
to insult Douglas was G N. Fitch of In
diana—still alive 1 believe—and he had
done it in executive session the day be
fore' I reached the city Douglas had de
manded a retraction or a fight, and Torn
Hawkins had been sent for.
"I found the Douglas household all
warm for the duel. Mrs. Douglas and
the Culleses and everybody were bound
to see c leplien out. Ilia wife said ho
might lose the Presidency- or anything
In fore he should be beaten by Jesse
Bright end old Buck’s myrmidons. Bil
let di nx had been passing all day be
twixt the Buchanan headquarters in the
Vice President's room of the Capitol and
one of the committee rooms where the
Douglas men sat in council. The mes- j
senger for Douglas was Reger A. Pryor, I
and for Fitch Judah P. Benjamin.
“The Filch gang were Slidell, who ]
was the arch Conspirator, and blood j
thirst j; as abut; Bright who was jealous
of Douglas and despised him; Cobb, etc.
W en Judah I’. Benjamin, the second
(lay came into the committee room with
another letter, and among Richardson
of Illinois, Pugh, Pryor, Brown, and the
rest saw Torn Hawkins glancing at him
they say he shrank back and turned l
pale. Then lie put out his hand in a |
sycophantish way and said:
“Why, Mr. Hawkins, I’m very glad to j
see you.”
“We all met that night, and Tom went j
in place of Pryor, to arrange the partic
ulars and force a fight or peace. We |
knew by his look that the thing was sc- I
rious. They knew that it was coming ;
to be bloody by Tom’s eyes- And they!
wrote a retraction. He had it in ten
minutes.
We arranged to try D-uiglas’ courage
by telling him that the duel was to come
off next morning. Tern, who wa» a
simple hearted fellow raised objections
to ties and refused to havo anything to
do with it. We entered Douglas’ libra
ry, and there he stood with as pleasant
a smile as 1 ever saw, waiting to hear
the result.
‘Mr Douglas,” saidjl, “bow do you
feel? ’
“Very well. What is the news?”
“You arc to-go to the field to-morrow
morning at o o’sloek,. and fight with
! h >t guns.’
‘We all h> Jed at him pierciiig'y to
fee bow he st oil it.
• Very well,’ ho raid, ‘make all the a:
| rangcinents.’
‘Wo watched him again, and he was
! as quiet as I oversaw him —almost cheer
| ful. Tom Hawkins could stand it no
| more, lie said:
‘Mr. D. uglas, they have retracted!’
‘Douglas drew a sigh, whether of re
lief or regret Ido not know. Ke was n
splendid shot with a fowling piece, ami
he would have fought his weight in wild
cats rather than he crowded out of the
path of his ambition. lie was Ihe great
ost leader any parly ever had to my
mind. Do von want to be introduced to
Tom Hawkins?’
‘No,’said I without thinking about il;
'if it isn’t offensive, 1 prefer not to know
Tom Ha wkinsl’
Aji Emancipated Mave’s Gratitude
Gov. Alcorn, ol Mississippi, recently 1
appointed W. 0. II b yours on io a Judge- 1
| ship, and in sending his nomination to j
| the Senate said he selected him from j
j several gentlemen equally well quali- |
i lied, solely on account of the letter
| ulFch we print below. The Governor J
| added that ho could not refrain from |
saying “on an occasion so touching to
every man of the South, that there is an j
elevating sense of ‘ the good old world j
when labor toiled for duty, not for meat,’
in this spectacle of an emancipated slave
consenting to sacrifice all oilier favor -
ites for office, in order to concentrate the
influence of Ids position, ns a worthy j
member of the Legislature, to bestow j
honor on his lute master.’' This is the
letter:
House of RF.ntE-EN'TATives )
Jackson, Miss, March 26th, 1 BTO j
To his Excellency, Gov. J L. Ai.c m.v:
Governor: I was a slave of Cul. W G.
Henderson. Boys together as we were,
he is the centre of the tendurest associ
ations of my life. Arrived at manhood's
estate, 1 was still intimatelv connected
with him in the relation of Ids body ser
vant. When he was Wounded ai Up
perville, Yu., cn route for Gettysburg, he
languished in the valley of Virginia, in!
the hands of the Federal authorities, mi
ld it was my privilege to lake him
away, secretly through the lines to his
own people. The affectionate relation
of our-childhood having ripened into a
fixed friendship in onr manhood, has been !
invigorated still furthnr l.y ft mutuality j
of service and and vnlion, which makes
him dear to my foul.
My friend and loving master is a can
didate for Ike office of Circuit Judge of
the First District lie u a man of nn
hlcm'shed honor, is a lawyer of high
standing at (lie bar, aid haying stood
oel boldly.for yon during the late can
vass, is a good Republican.
Now, Governor, I, by the my. tcrioim
providence of God, am a member of tin:
Legislalnre; I want no < flier, no honor,
save that of standing here in my p’aco
as a duly to my race. But I believe
my position gives me some claim upon
the patronage you arc about to dispose, j
and I now place, without reservation, j
all the credit of that claim to the ac
count of my earnest prayer that you ap
point to the Judgeship of tho First Dii
trict, the playmate of my boyhood, tho
companion of my manhood, the generous
friend of my whole life—my former mas
ter, Col. Henderson.
IF pirg that yon will grant this first
and last prayer which t, as a rni mber of
this House of Representatives, make to
you as Governor of Mississipni, 1 have
the honor to be
Yocsr Excellency’s viiy bumble servt.
Amur se Hendersi x.
The following gem from the writings
of Dckins has been going the Kinds
of the press It was beautiful before;
the woi Ill’s bereavement of last Tuesday j
evening makes it sadly appropriate
now:
’ There in nothing-no, nothing—beau
tiful and good that dies and is forgot
ten. An infant, a prattling child, dy
ing in ils cradle, will live again in the
better thoughts of those who loved it,
and play its part, though its body be
burned to ashes or buried in the deep
est sea. There is not an angel added to
the hosts of heaven but does its blessed
work on earth in those who loved it
here. Dead! Oh, if the good deeds of
human creatures could be traced to
their source, how beautiful would even
death appear! for how much charity,
mercy and purified affection would be
seen Io have their growth in dusty
gravis!”
Wit! sotiv; body be kind enough to
tc-ll ns (in :t modoprte way) why sc
; many Democratic papers in Georgia
wink and smile at the rotten and de
structive policy of his Excellency, the
Governor? It is an a’armiug feature in
his excellency’s destructive role, and
the people should understand its mean
ing. What is tine with negat'd to pa
pers in tliis matter, is also true as to
scores ot men calling themselves Demo
crats! Let us have more light. The
; pe >plc have a right to demand it,, and
their interests siionld not be neglected
in the pi emises.— \ Allow : ‘tcoryh*.
Bi cause they a:« paid to do i!.. I
tii.rt ."tnu Jib' ri<. ’ pmmgp?
Is Eiction Stranger Titan Truth ?
The Causes Oolebres (a collection of
Fre well trials) are a mir.o of interesting
histories, which novelist or dramatists
may dig for centuries without exhaus
ting, The following aimed >te is a mem
ber of that family; in a romance it would
be despised as frivolous. So true it is
that while jn winks of fiction we demand
probability the actual life is teeming
with apparent | robabi lily.
Two merchants of I’aris, united by
friendship had each a child of different
sex. The bpy and girl early contracted
a strong attachment to each other, and
fl ittered their youthful licnrls with the
hope of a lasting conm'ction. But when
i they imagiii and themsolves on the eve of
! completing their uniou another candi- i
date.for the ladys hand presented him.. t
self, a man advanced in years but pas— !
sessed of great wealth. The proposals
of so affluent a suitor were as usual, ir
! resistible to the eyes of her parents who
compelled her to accept him. Once mar
ried this excellent girl, with a virtue
which wo hope is not nncoinmon in
France, dismissed her former lover f..r
--! 1 tor from her presence; hut to command
her mind was not so easy; the pangs of
Hti ppressod sorrow agitated her frame;
she became a victim of a disordres,
which finaly consigned her to a tomb.
When the partner of her heart was ap
prised of this event his grief was doub
led, since even her widowhood was
sn.itcited (rom him. Recollecting, howev
or, that in her y nth she had been for
some time in a lethargy, ho hurried to
t’ e grave bribed the sexton’s compliance
dug up the body removed it to a place
of security ; and finally succeed by judi
cious efforts in reanimating hot cold pal
lid form.
What a moment for a human being
for a lover banging over all that was
dear t<> him in the world; he saw the
rose ol life slowly blooming in her cheek
gradually he felt her hand warm be
neath his touch. With what astonish
ment, with what delight did she open
her eyes upon her beloved! She had
been torn from existence and he had rc
slorcd li r to it; in the silence of niglil
' and obscurity of a mean retreat, she a
wakoned to sensation to happiness, to
him, Her lover urged his pretensions,
and not in vain; it was. a point for a
casuist; hut this inclination removed her
doubts. To remain in France might not
be safe; they crossed the channel and
passed ten years in England tiie exiles
home; the resting place ot every wander
cr
They at length experienced a strong
desire to visit their native country and
imagined that might he safely gratified.
By a singular rnisl’orluno Ihe lady was
soon encountered by her former .husband
who recognized the wifi: lie had lost in
spite of all her < Hurts to prevent the
discovery. He claimed her in the court,
ol juslic’, but the lover resisted In’s de
mand, alleging that his title was forfeit
ed by tlic burial ; and that anew one
had been acquired by the person who
had rescued her from a premature late.
This plea however, appeared to havo lit
tle weight on the opinion of the judges,
and anticipating an unfavorable decision,
the luckless pair hade a second and eter |
ual adieu to the land if their fathers.
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Don’t yon suppose ho would stop buy
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“1 don’t want it any longer!” and have
refused written on the margin, arid have
the payer returned to the editor. No
gentleman ever stopped a paper in that
way no matter if his head is covered
with gray hairs that should ho honora
ble. If you do uot wish longer to re
ceive a newspaper, write a note to the
editor like a man saying so—and be
sure that arrearages are paid. This is
ihe way to slop a newspaper.
An excellent suggestion is going the
rounds of the press, that in order to dis
tinguish I from J in manuscript the
public should acquire- the Inbit of put
ting under capital I, in writing, t: e tel
egraphic character whit h represents that
} letter, simply two dots, thus . . by
| which it would be recognized both by
j telegraphic operators an 1 type-setters,
t it is further urged that this practice be
taught by instructors in penmanslrp
i and school teachers.
General It..hurt Anderson lives in Eu
rope, because lie is too peer to live in
j this country. Ib: bad to si'll his private
library In foe leaving New York at a
! sacrifice.
[52.00 per Annum
NO. 28
BABY YEAR.
j Among the old settlors of the east a
singular maxim prevails. Every year
m which occurs a month with two moons
is believed to be especially productive)
in babies. With excellent provision for
childless parents, the happy influences
of the moon that thus twice is born in
a mouth aie reflected below, and a baby
apt to be in order in every bouse. The
belief is as Strong as il |s strange. The
Germans of the east ha ve a faith that
is abiding and in the years in which
this lunar phenomenon occurs always
| resells in a huge crop of babies. In
J January there were two new moons, and
1810 therefore must he a season in which
j married life brings its happiest fruition,
| and the children of the American people
I proportionately increases. It is well to
know this in time, and our advice is
therefore to all who are partners in tho
■stale matrimonial Io set up a cradle
and prepare baby fixins.
A Pretty Picture.— A .‘mother's led is
a mother’s heart, and both like the pro
verbial city .omnibus; so wo tlumg! 6
ibis morning as we were tiptoeing ;n
the sick room of an invalid sister.
Just as day dawned, little four ye tr
oll! Willie, who sleeps in a evil) beside
’mamma’s bed, awoke and whispered itv
such entreating tones as would he very
difficult for even a sick mother to ret use,
“Mamma, can’t I c <mo in your bed just
for one wee nappic?”
Os course Willio huddled in beside
baby Eddie, and in a few minutes was
fast asleep. Presently little Bell’s curly
head bobbed in at tho. nufscry door, and
“Mamma, is there room for one more?”
was queried, scarcely above a wLispcr.
“Yes dear.”
“Then I’ll come, loo!” laughed rogoislr
Noll, who by Ibis time was peeping
over her twin sister’s shoulder.
By the time these were duly kissed
and tucked in, baby was awake; and
perceiving his brother by his side, lies-*
tied toward him and gently putted his
cheek till Willie opened his sleepy eyes,
smiled, exchanged kissas, and without
speaking a wold, threw his arms over
Frankie’s neck, and with their checks
close pressed together, both dropped
into a sweat sleep.
Glad tears filled the mother’s eyes as
she ejaculated,'G’>d grant that their
love to each oilier may ever bo ns beau
tiful and spontaneous!’’ while their aim
ty longed as never before for an ar
tist’s skill, feoliitg that she would need
make no draft on the imagination b>
paint ti companion piece to “Raphael's
Angels.” —Aunt Alice , in Moires liarul
Neu; Yorker.
Laziness. -An incorrigible loafei being
taken to task for his laziness, replied: “L
(ell you gentlemen, you are mistaken. I
have not a lazy hone in my body; but the
fact is I was horn tired.”
It was the same fellow, that threw
himself ruefully down under a tree olio
hot day, closed his eyes and languidly
murmured—“now breathe if you want
to —I’ll be hanged if I will.”
Il was a second cousin of his whom
friends decided Io bury alive to keep him
from starving, it being a lime id fiimino
and he being too lazy to work On*
their way to the grave they met a be
-man, who offered to give him
a buche! of corn rather than to see him,
buried alive.
ITo raised the Cofll i lid and drawled,
out—
“ls—it—shell’d?'
‘No but you can shell it.”
‘Drive—on—boys.’
And a third cousin of his who was a>
member of tho ‘Lazy Men’s Club.’ At a
meeting of the institution charges were
preferred against him fin running down
kill but he was excused on the plea that
it was easier to run than to holdback.
The Atlanta True Georgian wants tho
colored brethren to pay np as Bullock is
hard np. It says«
The colored brethren who went to
Washington at the request of the Gov
ernor to help him fight the Bingham a
’mendinont and while there “borrowed-"’
fourteen hundred dollais of his Exqcllen
ey are requested to pay up immediately,
The ‘1 eavy expenses’ to which ho has
been subj cted sometimes three hundred
,dollars per day, personal expenses ono
hundred and seventy five dullars, have
s> reduced his “private fortune’ that ho
is greatly in need of funds. Ho cannot
‘suati in loya’ty n Georgia’ without num
ey. Ray up, brethren, pay up. Send
around the hat.
Taidy’s description ot a tiudlc cannot
bo beaten. He says: “It is the shapo
of a turkey and tiie size of a goose; tiro
inan turned it over mi its back and rub
bid its belly will a long sticl j; and ach,
by St. Patrick! how it did squeal!’
Atlanta wis.u s i e lire alarm tele
graph introduced ii Unit place, mid also
an extra quanti y,ot iightniug rods If
the luolisii poop iere expect l i escap i
by these rn<*a is tiro fate ot S do o a.d
t i onion all, we woo’d simply remai K
tint they wdl find thems IvcV bally
j mistaken, that's all.