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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. HOW TO STOP A PAPER. The following from one of our exchan ge:’, so fully and clearly expresses our ! views upon the subject that we copy it | without comment. ‘ You have an undoubted right to stop a newspaper whenever you arc Jit posed, up m payment of all arcarages Do not hesitate to do so on account of any “tenderness of feeling” for the editor. Don’t yon suppose ho would stop buy ing sugar of you, or meat, clothing, dry goods,&c., if he thought ho was not getting his n oney’s worth? And when y u discontinue a paper, do so manfully. Don’t he so pitiful as to throw it back to the postmaster with a contemptuous: “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.
