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MACON', NOVEMBER 8, 1870.
An Armistice for Twenty-five Dhj*-
. I'cace Probable.
The news reported yesterday with regard to
an armistice between Prnsgia and Franca for
twenty-five days, is confirmed this morning—
on the basis, we presume—though we do not
tnow, yet—proposed by England some days
since, and which we have heretofore published.
Substantially we judge it amounts to this: The
military status to be preserved just as it is, and
an election to be held immediately throughout
France, for members of the Constituent Assem
bly. That body will meet on the Iflth inst, so
the election must be held between this date and
that. The object of the election is to provide
for someaulhorized, representative government
which can make a treaty of peace*
The Badical leaders and anti-armistice peo
ple rose in Paris, and for a while had Gen.
Troohu a prisoner, but they were finally put
down. We hope bo will have another chance
at them yet
It is presumable that Gen. Troohu and the
Paris government who have accepted the ar mis-
tice act upon the best information, and with
the best motives. They simply wish to give
the whole French people an opportunity of say
ing whether or not they desire a continuation of
the war, and this election will afford them that
opportunity. We have strong hopes that peace
will be the result. After such a bloody, wast
ing war, a cessation of hostilities for Iwenty-
fxvft days will wonderfully cool the blood of
both combatants.
It seems to ns that both would act wisely to
make the armistice a lasting peace, and we sin
cerely hope such a consummation will be ulti
mately reached.
Sale of the Mitchell Property at At
lanta—What the State Has Lost.
The Atlanta Constitution, of yesterday, con
tains an account of the sale there, at auction,
on Thursday, of this property recently wrested
from the State by the Agency, and its master,
the lobby. For the benefit of those who may
wish to know how much this “grab” cost the
people, wo synopsize as follows: There were
41 lots sold fronting on Pryor, Peachtree, and
Alabama streets, and Bailroad Avenue, and the
principal purchasers were Judge O. A. Loch-
rane, Joseph E Brown and the Kimballs. E. F.
Blodgett, (Trustee) went $15,000 on two lots—
a very satisfactory showing for State Boad
‘'grease and waste.” The total amount of tho
sale was $211,438 50 Judge Brown bonght
eight lots for which he paid $47,15115; Jndge
Lochrane four lots for which he planked up
$27,749, and the Kimballs went in for seven
lots to tjie tnne of $44,943. Before the sale,
Jndge Dennis Hammond read a notice to the
crowd warning them against purchasing, as snits
Would bo brought against them. The Chief
Justice of the Supreme Conrt—before whom the
case most ultimately go—didn’t seem to be
soared much, however.
The Adventures of Bis Foot Wallace,
the Texas Hunter and Ranger.
Messrs. J. W. Burke & Co. send ns a copy of
this book, just issued from the press of Clar
ion, Bemsen & Haffelfinger, Philadelphia, and
written by John C. Duval, autnor of “Jack
Dobell” and other very entertaining stories that
have appeared within the last two years in
“Burke’s Weekly for Boys and Girls." “Big
Foot Wallace” was also first published in that
admirable and deservedly popular serial, and
is really a capital story for children, not only
of small bnt large growth. Wo have read
onongh of it in the “Weekly” to give ns a taste
for more, and shall take a good dip in it at onr
first leisure moment. As a present for a real
boy with a healthy taste for a wholesome yet ex
citing narrative, we know of none better than
tho history of “Big Foot Wallace’s” adventures.
Why Don’t They Publish It?
We want to know why the hoDest papers at
Atlanta don’t publish the list of appropriations
made by the late Agency? It will be a melan
choly satisfaction to the people to see of jost
bow much they have been robbed, and to mark
the knen who aided end abetted the deed. We
hope the Constitution, at least, will make an
extra effort to get the doenment and make it
pnblic. —Macon Telegraph.
We have not been able to get these facts yet,
bnt will soon have them. The record is sad
enough in all troth. It is a most melancholy
chronicle of genuine, unadulterated plunder.
Yon shall have it neighbor, bnt it wUl make
yon sick.
Let ns Howl!—Atlanta Constitution.
Bend it along. If we don’t make the plnnder-
«rs “sick,” it will not be for lack of trying.
Let us all go to work, and make them “howL”
Horrible Nitbo Glycerine Explosion.—At
half-past four o'clock, Tnesday afternoon two
magazines, containing 150,000 pounds of nitro
glycerine, exploded at Fairport, near Paines-
ville, Ohio. Four persons were blown to atoms.
The buildings on the east side of the river were
. much damaged. The shock of the explosion
was felt for miles. The loss to tho glycerine
company is not less than $25,000. Where the
magazines stood are now two ponds of water 50
feet across and 75 feet deep. The people of
Fairport are greatly excited, as this is the sec
ond explosion of the kind within two months.
Several bnildings were so badly damaged by the
explosion that families wore obliged to vacate
them.
The Courier-Journal thinks it is a pity all the
strong-minded women “can’t some how or other
be choked off and made to stay at home and
perish as quietly and as speedily as possible.
If all other women of the nation were to become
like them to-morrow morning before breakfast,
five or ten millions of the moTe sensible men of
the nation wonld go and drown themselves be
fore dinner, or if they didn’t, they wonld de
serve to be drowned by somebody else."
There’s a solid chnok of wisdom for yon. We
will engage to famish a bnshel of votes in favor
of the choking-off proposition.
The Venom or a Renegade.—Says the Lynch
burg Virginian: Wo have heard from a gentle
man of character and responsibility that, after
General Lee’s death, his former trusted and be
loved comrade Inarms, General James Long-
street, now United States Surveyor of Customs
at New Orleans, and a supporter of Grant’s Bad-
ioal Administration, refused to permit the flags
of the enstom-honse to be lowered at half-mastj
So it seems that there are some otherpeople be
sides Virginians who, when they fall, fall heavy
and fall hard. ^
The Philade!phis Press says: ‘ Colonel Hol
lins will be remembered as the rather eccentric
bnt thoroughly loyal and well-meaning gentle
man who represented the Fonrth district of
Tennessee in the Fortieth Congress.” This, and
only this, of that magnificent orator and states
man, in the hot breath of whose flaming elo
quence “the blossom of hell’s delight” withered
in a moment! Arise, Mullins, and glut yonr
ire l—r Courier-Journal.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE
FROM MEW YORK.
Cotton States Lite Insurance Comp ant.—
Those who desire to insure their lives in a good
Company should not fail to examine the advan
tages offered by a Homo company. It certain
ly presents claims equal to any, and superior to
many other companies now applying for pnblic
patronage. See advertisement.
The wife of Dan Bryant, the burnt cork
artist, has jmt.drvwn $17,000 in gold in . the
Ban Fr.-tse.i,« lo“*rv.
TI»* Approaching: Election — WssnlBeeat
Churches—Fifth Avenue on Sunday Morn-
Stiff—The BIondeBelleafn the Ascendant—
A Blast at ‘ Camel’s Hair” Shawls -Central
I ark, Yoke, October 31st, 1870.
A New York election soems to be bom of
mnrb trouble and expense. This Monday morn
ing, last day of October, was ushered in by an
incessant peal of artillery in all parts of the
city, intended to stir up the voters to the duly
of registration. Only two days are left, and
the registration is fifty thousand or more short.
To supplement the stimulation of the artillery,
immense vans are hauled through the streets by
fonr and six horses, with the liveliest admoni
tions painted all over them in many colors, and
a band of music inside. Placards stare at you,
moreover, from every comer, warning yon to
be snre and attend to this business at once. All
this is done at the expense and for the benefit
of the Democracy, who number so many of the
laboring class in their ranks, that a registry law
is 8are to cut off many of their votes. The
man who earns his bread by constant daily labor
and is expected to be on time from six in the
morning till six at night, finds registering an
inconvenient business. Probably a good many
will neglect it altogether.
The progress of New York, though not talked
about so much a3 that of the Chicagoes, big or
little, is a marvel not more in extent, than in
gorgeous architectural splendor. I am in that
part of the city which twenty years ago could
show nothing better than an occasional hovel,
but is now for many square miles covered with
the most costly private and publio buildings in
the United States. The grandeur of thearchiteo-
tnre is a marvel to the man from the rural dis
tricts. The houses are as splendid as Aladdin’s
palace, bnt there are a score or two of churches
within this district, whichare gorgeous architec
tural piles. Foremost among those which are
completed is the Jewish Temple, Emannel
—a structure equally unique and beautiful,
and a splendid testimonial to the piety,
wealth and taste of the Israelitish popu-
la'ion of the great Metropolis. Tha exte
rior combines massiveness and solidity with
great delicacy and elaboration, and within,
the temple is gorgeous beyond my power of dis
cretion. The Janitor showed ns tha sacred
parchments which were magnificent specimens
of penmanship. This temple, I am told, cost
nearly a million of dollars. The great Fifth
Avenne Boman Catholic Cathedral will be the
most elaborate church edifice in the United
States. It has risen abont fifteen feet within
the last three years, and the walls are now
probably about thirty-five or forty feet high,
It will probably be from thirty to fifty years in
conrse of construction; and though that seems
long in a fast age, it will be rapid progress
compared with that of all the great temples of
tho Old World. St. Thomas’ Church, on the
same street, will probably be completed within
the next year, and is now used for Divine ser
vice. The music here i3 said to be the finest
in the city, and I heard one hymn very grandly
sung. That noble form of benediction, “The
Peace of God which passeth all nnderstanding.
etc, which followed, was scarcely audible
through the long drawn aisles and vast area of
this majeitio edifice, which I suppose will seat
five or six thousand people. All these and nu
merous other grand religions temples are well
nigh imperishable. They will endnre for hun
dreds of years.
At twelve o’clock Sunday, when the morning
service is over, Fifth Avenne is a very brilliant
spectacle. The eastern side is thronged with
woll-dressed people going down, and the west
ern side with those going np the street. The
broad pavement is so densely thronged for an
hour that it wonld be difficult, if not impossi'
ble, to make headway against the tide.
This is such an array of wealth, fashion and
beauty, as cannot be seen any where else in
America, and it is a treat to those who love to
study the human face divine. All styles of female
loveliness can be seen in New York, bnt the
prevailing type is a majestic development of
the blonde—brilliant complexions rosy with
health (not ]%int)—fine, well-developed figures,
and a plenty of good honest avoirdnpois. The
dress is generally very rich bnt not showy. In
deed, where half the ladies have mantled them
selves in those ugly and expensive camel’s hair
shawls, which range all the way from $4000 to
$400 apiece, there can’t be any great amount
of real beauty In dres3. The other day I was
gossipping with the shawl man in Stewart’s
abont these things, and wondering at the valne
set upon them. “Why,” says he, “they are
good for centuries—they never fade. We have
some in this store known to be over two hnnd-
red years old. Come with me and look at
them.” I exonsed myself. The fact is, the
only thing which conld possibly jastify so large
an outlay in one of those shawls, wonld bo that
it might change in color and figare into some
thing pretty one of these days. That hope de
stroyed, what does a lady of taste want with a
camel’s hair shawl, except to show that she is a
good deal richer than other people who can’t
afford to bny them—and that. I suppose, is all
the beanty in camel’s hair shawls.
The Park is now in all its autumn glory of
many colored foliage. The grass is green as an
emerald, and the walks are all laid in asphallnm
as smooth as dressed sandstone. These are the
walks for ns to lay in Macon in place of onr
soft brick. They are apparently as hard as flint,
and must be cheaper than brick. Lot ns study
into the composition. I think it is nothing
moro than gas tar and sand. J. C.
The Vote of New York City—No Winter Yet
—A Walk Through the Markets — The
American Institute Fair-Mademoiselle
Nilsson—One Thousand Dollars a Kong.
New York, Nov. 1st, 1870.
November opens bright and beantifnl, and
another grand feu dejoie in every quarter of tho
city warns voters that this is the last day of reg
istry. Sixty-one thousand registered yesterday,
and 118,000 have registered altogether. To
day's work may show that there are on this little
island of Manhattan nearly as many voters as in
the great State of Georgia. Tammany is anx
ious to show that the outcries of the opposition
abont “repeaters” and stuffed ballot-boxes” are
groundless, and the voters are here in bodily
presence.
The morning is bright and clear with a tem
perature somewhere abont fifty-five. Winter
lingers and delays its coming. Yon in Maoon
have had as mnch of it so far as the Gotham
ites—that is to say none at all, for there has
not been-a heavy frost yet. Green com and
tomatoes are still to be found on the table—
the former that of the kind known at Tuscarora,
which is, on the whole, the best table oora for
Georgia -not as highly flavored as some, but
hardy, an abundant producer, and maintaining
its tenderness a long time. "
It is a glorious sight to a hungry man to walk
through the markets here and see the abundance
of (he field, forest, garden, orchard and sea.
What stores of snbtantial wealth they exhibit
real value—not representatives of values, like
gold and greenbacks—but things which sup
port life and make it enjoyable. A man may
have his boots full of greenbacks, bnt if they
can’t bny him wholesome and nourishing food
they are of no- great eooonnt. If yon have a
ship load of gold on a barren and uninhabited
island of the sea, yon would be poorer than the
beggar in the midst of civilization ; because he
may gel a morsel for the asking, but you conld
bny soiling with all yonr wealth.
So I aay that conld w* in. Georgia realize onr
wildest dreams in ootton producing and cotton
selling, unless we do it consistently with the
production of plenty of good, wholesome
food, so that we can be healthy and enjoy life
as we go along, we are bnt poor devils, after
alL Mere money is not worth a thought except
as the means of usefulness and enjoyment.
When a man gets down to taking delight in the
mere possession of money, he is a miser and a
pagan. He will be no worse if he carves ont a
graven image and falls down and worships it.
Life consists in love, knowledge, strength and
abundance,—and money is valuable as ft re
presents and embodies these grand elements of
healthy existence.
The 39th Annual Fair of the American Insti
tute closes this week. The main exhibition room
is of jnst abont the appearance, size and shape
of the Macon passenger station house. Pot
the front part in the rear, and fill it with ma
chinery—store the main body with everything
in the way of art and manufacture, and yon will
have an idea of the tout ensemble. Fill the va
cant space with several thousand people and the
air itself with the harsh thunder of a steam or
gan and the scene is before yon.
The horticultural display is meagre and dis
appoints me. There were many varieties of ap
ples, and two among them at least seven inches
in diameter. There were a hundred or more
varieties of the potato, all very fine—no peas—
a few ears of com two feet long or a little less,
and this was about all. The display of "fabrics,
chemicals, silver and plated ware, pictures, con
fections, household furniture, eto., very good.
Among the embroideries, pictures worked on
satin with black floss, and perfectly resembling
a crayon at short distance to doll eyes, were a
novelty to me. The machinery in the way of
steam engines of new patterns, crashing and
pumping machines, saws, planes, and every
other mechanical contrivance was a grand show.
The sensation, however, was an ice machine
from New Orleans, by Bnjao, who gave tho
boys and girls every day a cake of ice to skate
upon.
Last night I heard Nilsson in her last concert
here for the present. She is a lady considera
bly above medium height, with a good person,
a plain face—a yellow-haired Saxon. Her voice
is a very pure soprano, of great compass and
power, and she sings with great taste and feel
ing too. It seems to me tho French papers,
when they compared her to “an ice bank in a
winter’s moon light,” were mistaken, or she has
changed—for she sang with fervor and enthnsl
asm. Indeed she ought to do it. At the rate
of $4,000 for fonr songs, she ought to sing with
the spirit. The most of ns would be willing to
carrol like larks, for half the money. The per.
formance, like the Macon fair, was “a success,’
and a game of all fours—for she got $4,000—
Vie paid fonr dollars a ticket—heard four songs
and wonndup with a quartette—by Nilsson,
Miss Oarey, Brignoli and Verger. Good bye.
J.C.
The Lee Memorial Fond.
New York, November 1st, 1870.
I see by the papers this morning that General
Lee’s family have wisely concluded that his hon
ored remains shall rest permanently at Lexing
ton in (he University Ohapel which ho planned,
and amid the soenes hallowed by his last earth
ly labors. Also, that Gen. Cnstis Lee has been
elected to succeed his father as President of the
college—the name of which has been changed to
the “Washington-Lee College.”
These facts make still more appropriate a
suggestion dropped in yonr paper on the morn
ing after Lee's death; and while the attention
of the Sonthera people is directed to the matter
of some fitting testimonial of their reverence
and affection for Gen. Lee, I wonld beg leave to
repeat it.
There are few Southern men, women or chil
dren, who will not be solicitous to number
themselves among the contributors to the Lee
Memorial Fond; and, limit personal contribu
tions as yon may, the Fond will be a large one
—too large to be spent in a mere monumental
pile. If individual subscriptions were limited
to a dollar, or even fifty cents each, the grand
aggregate will go into the millions.
Why, then, not adopt and carry ont the sng.
gestion of Lee’s last years in the great national
tribute to his memory? Lee’s acceptance of
the position of President of Washington Col
lege, was dictated by the noblest conceptions
and the most patriotic impulses. Abundant op
portunities were open to him, in other employ
ments, to repair the loss of his patrimony by
the war. He conld have carried to any business
enterprise the weight of a vast personal popu
larity, which wonld have secured unexampled
success. Bnt he chose to devote himself to the
training of Sonthera youth ont of the prompt
ings of a pore and pions patriotism; and it is
peculiarly befitting that a national testimony
to his memory should carry on the same sacred
purpose.
Let the memorial fund, therefore, he conse
crated not to a mere barren pile of monumental
stones, however gorgeous and splendid; bnt
let it be expended with appropriate reference to
its grand idea, and at the same time in proviso
ion for the ednoation of indigent Sonthera
youths. If I am right in my ideas, two or three
millions might be raued for this object, with
which a splendid memorial building might be
constructed, and numerous memorial scholar
ships founded, whioh should be an ever active
fountain of beneficence to the end of time. All
that is wanted is, that Virginia shall take hold
of that idea and establish at once, the instru
mentalities for carrying it ont. Let her put it in
charge of an active and intelligent committee,
and invite the co-operation of all the Sonthera
States, counties, cities and towns, and before
winter is over a- vast fnnd might be secured,
not only for a monument to General Lee, bnt
also for a grand purpose in exact harmony with
the noble plans and aspirations of the great
Sonthera Chieftain. Will not the Sonthera
press second the motion? Rely upon it, the
Sonthrons eveywhere, will respond with enthu
siasm to this idea. In this city of New York,
are many thousands who wonld take an aotive
part in the work. All that is wanted is to set
it in operation. J. O.
Beeches hit his shoddy congregation the fol
lowing hard lick laBt Sunday:
“There is not a. mother’s son; of you bnt
wonld be intensely delighted, when yon went to
Enrope, if yon were to receive a command from
the Qneen of England to visit her at conrf.
You might play humility, bnt yon wonld write
home and tell everybody all about it, and when
yon got home yon wonld feel almost a royal
personage yonrself, and of inexhaustible im
portance because a royal personage had taken
notice of . yon. There have been Americans in
Enrope who have been royally invited to the
Conrt of England, and when the day came
around they were too drunk to go to court.
This is human nature; it is the same all the
world oyer. We go to Enrope and we try to
feel democratic in the palaces of kings and in
the society of the aristoerat; bnt we are not
demoor^tMf'/ .a j im
A Detroit “sportsman ” is sick from a game
supper he had. He bagged a lot of red beaded
wood-peckers, whioh he oalied snipe, end gar
nished the dish with toadstools, thinking them
to be mash-rooms. _ j ' 1
A touno man in Alleghany, Penn., who lost
his speech by a fonrth of July explosion, bad it
res’ored by his indignation at reading H. G.’s I
‘What I Know About Farming.* - I
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Messrs. P. H. Oliver and Jack Brown are an
nounced as candidates for Mayor of Americas.
Thomas F. Loyd, Esq., of Oglethorpe, Maoon
county, has been appointed Solicitor General
of the South-Western Judicial Circuit
The wife of Alderman Dillon, of Savannah,
died Thursday evening.
The Savannah Republican of Thursday, says:
A Practical Idea-—When we were in the
up freight offloe of the Central Bailroad yester
day afternoon, we were shown a telegraph
which had been introduced in that office for the
general benefit of tho Central Bailroad, whioh
road certainly keeps pace with time.
We clip the following from the Constitu
tionalist of Thursday:
Trouble Among Colored Baptists.—The
trustees and deacons of the Central (colored)
Baptist Church have recently been very mnch
disturbed in their brotherly unity, through
the excommunication of one of the deacons,
which has led to a straggle between' the differ
ent boards of officials to determine who should
control the church building. On Tuesday night
the strife culminated in the deacons resolving
to nail np the door of the church, which was
accomplished by one of their number, Jackson
Arrington. Yesterday morning, at the instance
of one of the trustees, Philip Battey, Arring
ton was arraigned before Justice Els, to answer
for the offense of malicious mischief in nail
ing up the door of the church. The defendant
not being ready lor trial, a hearing of the case
was postponed to 3 o’clock this afternoon.
A man named Nolan bad one of his legs hor
ribly mangled Tnesday, near Gartersville, by a
freight train on the Oartersville and Van Wert
railroad. It was afterwards amputated. He was
drank.
Thus. M. Hammond has been nominated by
the Democrats of Batts as fheir candidate for
the Legislature.
A farm of 130 acres, near Cedar Town, Folk
connty, was sold laBt Tuesday for $6,500. On
the same day sales of Floyd connty lands were
made at from $8 to $25 per acre. ‘
The gin-house and eighteen bales of cotton,
belonging to Mr. J. 8. Morns, seven miles from
Marietta, were burned last Sunday morning by
a negro incendiary, who is now in jail—no in
surance, of conrse.
Dr. M. M. Anderson, of Gordon oonnty, had
to shoot a negro in Adairsville on Saturday. The
negro had attacked and threatened to kill him
on sight.
The Borne Commercial has this qneer para
graph. Hutchens must be one of the “trooly
loiL” We hope so, anyway:
Severely Whipped.—The friends and ac
quaintances of Mr. Mathew Hntchens will be
pleased to learn that he was severely whipped
by a big bnck negro jesterday evening. His
opponent got him down and having plucked his
shirt off his back proceeded to scratch, pinch,
and shake him.
The occupants of this office stood by, and in
ecstacy watched the tassel until the big negro
screamed ont: “Here’s a place I isn’t had hold
of yit,” and proceeded to drive into the eyes of
the unfortunate Mr. Hntchens, when onr folks
interfered and pulled the triumphant African
off.
We clip the following from the Griffin Star,
of yesterday:
More Faib- Successes.—Mr. S. W. Blood*
worth, after taking his hundred and twenty-five
dollar premium on the best acre of corn, went
to the Augusta fair and took a hundred^ and
twenty-five dollar premium on the same aore
This is qnite a profitable acre sorely. Last
year it took a premium of $123, this year $275,
and now what will he take for the acre itself?
We want to bny it.
Ootton continues to come in rapidly, receipts
being fully a thousand bales per week. The
remarkable long spell of dry weather has been
improved by farmers, and the result is onr
streets are white with cotton, and onr stores fall
of customers.
The following challenge appears in the Sa
vannah Republican, of Thursday:
The Savannah Base Ball Club having for two
sneoessive seasons retained the title of cham
pions of Georgia, hereby challenge any club
south of Washington to play a single match
game of base ball, according to the rules of the
National Association, for $200 and the cham
pionship of tho South, said game to be played
on the grounds of the Savannah Club, and with
a dead ball. Communications will receive
prompt attention if addressed to
W. H. Turner,
Secretary Savannah B. B. C.
The Ordinary of Clark connty has reoonv*
mended, as managers of the election for that
county, the following persons: J. D. Pittard
and John Kirkpatrick, for the Athens preoint;
and John Langford and Jeremiah Foddrell, for
the Watkinsville precinct.
Says the Albany News, of Friday:
“Mob Clubs.”—We are informed, upon the
most reliable authority, that the negroes of a
neighbonring connty have organized a “Mob
Club,” with the avowed purpose of mobbing
every one of their race who does not espouse
and vote Radicalism. One negro has already
been badly beaten by the mob for avowing
Democratic proclivities. "
The Savannah News has the following:
Marriage Extraordinary.—Bather a novel
marriage was celebrated yesterday at the office
of Justice D. N. Lain, under the following
qneer oircnmstances: It seems that on the 18 th
of last April, a negro named John Coleman be
came dissatisfied with the so-called wife, with
whom he resided down near the Ogeeohee river,
and took ont a marriage license for himself and
a negro woman named Hilfy Conners. Upon -
showing tho license to Hilfy she commenced
“house-keeping” with John, and everything
moved along charmingly until his former wife
made a friendly call, armed with a big knifo,
and threatened' to rip up things unless Hilfy
made a sudden exodns. At this stage of affairs,
John and Hilfy called on Justice Lain, and
showing the old license, inqhired if everything
was all right The Justice explained the utter
invalidity of the doenment by virtue of which
they kept house, and at their own request, then
and there solemnly united them in the holy
bonds of wedlock, (which according to the negro
cede lasts for six months,) and prononneed
them man and wife, in accordance with the
laws of the State. Wife No. 1 has yet to he
informed of this mo3t important transaction.
Immense Stock op Cotton on Hand.—We do
not remember ever having known so heavy a
stock of cotton on hand at this port as there is
at the present time. The merchants, steve
dores, long-shoremen, draymen, pressmen, and
in faot everybody who ha< anything to do with
the great Southern staple, appear to be in the
best possible humor, and, as we think, with
good and sufficient reason. The business of
the city seems flourishing beyond all precedent,
while the number of vessels in this port at the
present time are as follows: Steamships, 6;
Ships, 23; Barks, 16; Brigs, 12; Schooners,
9. Total, 6G. All loading or on berth for for
eign and domestic ports. The most of them
are destined for foreign port.-.
The Constitution says it is reported np there
that the State elections in Georgia are to be
manipulated to advance the interests of Fred
Douglas for President, in 1872 and Bollock for
Vice President.
The Constitution has this railroad item:
A New Arrangement.—A sleeping car left
Atlanta for Lynchburg, Va., last night, without
change. Another will leave Sunday night for
the same destination. Arrangements will soon be
made so that travelers going North, by taking
a sleeping ear, will have to obange cars only
once between here and New York.
We clip the following from the Covington
Examiner, of Saturday:
Fire.—We regret to learn that about 8 o’clock,
on Tuesday night last, the residence af Mr.
Charles Strong who resides near Brickstore in
this county, was consumed by fire; supposed
to have caught from a spark igniting the leaves
and trash that had accumulated in the gutter
ing. They succeeded in saving a large portion
of the furniture. No insurance.
Serious Accident.—On Monday evening last,
Mr. Augustas Dorsett, was repovingthe moats
from under an eighty saw gin, at Steadman,
propelled by water power, when, by some
means, his coat sleeve was caught by the saws
of the gin, and his hand and arm drawn into
the saws, and frightfully cut and mangled
nearly to the elbow joint,-
We quote as follows from the Thom as ton
Herald of Saturday:
The fall term ef Upson Superior Conrt con
venes on Monday next.
We Lara that the Ordinary of this oonnty has
rominated Mr Alien J. Willisum aid Mr.
Joseph AUati.ae SnperinUndents cf: the eleo-
vion to be held in Deotmber-next. -j
\ The Belief Law.
Laurens TTttj-., Ga, October 27th, 1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Allow
me to make a proposition through the columns
of your popular journal to, all whom it may
concern of my fellow citizens of the State of
Georgia I propose that'meetings be. held by
the aggrieved party in - every county in the
State, and petition Congress, in the name of
justice and of the Constitution, to protect a
respectable minority of the citizens of Georgia
against the operations of the ontrageona relief
law of the late Georgia Legislature. A law
which imposes conditions that were never
dreamed of by the parties when the contracts
were made, and requiring proof which it is im
possible to make, thereby infiioting wrong upon
a large class of onr people, and “impairing the
obligation of contracts” in direct violation of
the Constitution of the United States, debts
contracted for specie, or real estate, under the
old flag before the war, and renewed again un
der the old flag after the war, should not now
have so many new conditions attached to them,
and I care not if the powers in Atlanta attach
them, so long as I can find shelter under the
wings of the American eagle I shall feelseonre.
If I bear allegiance to that flag, that flag owes
me protection, and I do believe a petition to
Congress from a respectable portion of the citi
zens of Georgia wonld be heard, and that
Congress wonld grant the prayer of the peti
tioners. Let ns try, let ns petition, and in the
event of failing to get Congress to redress onr
wrongs, let ns try and get the Supreme Court to
decide upon the constitutionality of the law. If
we fail here, and there is no remedy nowhere,
then, indeed, we are bound hand and foot to
the car that crashes us, and compelled to pnt
on steam to hasten onr own destruction; bnt
better do this a thousand times than commit
perjury once. Stick to the truth if it kills. Let
the robbers have their way for a season, and
let ns hope that a change of law makers may
yet remedy the evils of nnjnst legislation, and
place all the citizens of the State upon an equal
ity in their civil and political rights. One ques
tion and I am done. Is it reasonable to sup
pose that a man could look upon all his debts as
“solvent debts” daring the existence of a stay
law, with a perpetual dread npon his mind that
the law would get worse instead of better, with
a dread that the debtor, in the mean time, wonld
hide all the property he had and pat it ont of
reach of the law ? And yet, in spite of his debts
and fears, nnless he gave them in all the time
as solvent debts, he is now to be denied the
“aid of the courts.” I expect it wa3 some such
work as this that touched the poet’s heart and
made him exclaim,
"Oh! for a lodge in some vast wilderness,
Some boundless contiguity of shade;
Where rumor of oppression and deceit,
Might never reach me more.”
The habitation he longed for would be a para
dise compared with this country. Farmer.
June sad October.
Beautiful maid with bright sunny eyes,
Sweet bndding lips ever wreathing in smiles,
Brow as unclouded a* mltteumer skies;
Gentle in anger and artless in wiles.
You've stolen my heart like a new merry tune;
Let me adore you, beantifnl June 1
Noble, brave woman with eyes deep aa truth.
Lips that reve&i the full ripeness of power,
Brow written o’er with the triumphs of youth;
High-strong to honor, soul-rich in dower i
Precious thy life-song, be it merry or sober,
I utterly love thee, grand, royal October!
A STRONG CASE.
The Ylllanles and Bobberies of Radicalism,
The Siamese Twins Ontdone—Extra
ordinary Freak of Nature.
Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial, j
Delaware, Ohio, October 17.
Our community is muoh excited over a freak
of nature in the production of a double baby.
The Siamese twins are completely overshadow
ed by this infant wonder. There iB living in
Peru township, Morrow connty, a family named
Finley. Up to last Wednesday morning it con
sisted of Mr. Joseph Finley, his wife Mary and
two children, little girls, aged three and five
years. On that morning Mrs. Finley was con
fined and gave birth to twins, joined together
in a manner unknown to books. "When tho
gossips brought the news of the event to onr
city, and gave descriptions of the child or chil
dren, it was langhed at. by the professional, and
pronounced a good hoax. A gentleman living in
the vicinity of thehouse called on one of the physi-
ciansandassuredhimthattherewasno exaggera
tion in the description, ashe had seen the wonder,
Convinced that there was something in the case, a
party of gentlemen consisting of Drs. J. A Lit
tle and T. B. Williams, W. O. Seamens, pro
fessor of natural history and chemistry, at the
Ohio Wesleyan University, and S. K. Donavin,
on the 16th inst., visited the family. Before
reaching the Finley farm, the party called on
Dr. E. A. Westbrook of Ashley, who had been
called to attend the mother, and learned from
him that the half had not been told. Dr. West
brook aocompained the party. An hour’s drive
brought them to the plaoe. On going to the
gate leading to the yard, a written notice was
discovered announcing that visit rs would not
be admitted. This did not deter the party.
They immediately entered the yard, and on
reaching the front door of the dwelling, they
were met by Mr. Finley (the father, and a gen
tleman who appeared to be acting as his aid de
camp, who informed the party that they conld
be admitted to see the show on the payment of
twenty-five cents each. The professor prompt
ly forked over, and the party stepped in. In a
few minutes the nurse made her appearance
with the wonder. A double child was exhibited.
Two perfectly formed heads, one on either end
of the spinal column.
To give a clear idea of it, jnst suppose that
yon sever the bodies of two men at the lower
part of the abdomen and then pnt the two up
per parts together, and yon have the trunk of
this child. At the instance of Drs. Williams
and Little, the clothiDg was taken from it, and
a critical examination was made, so far as conld
be, without doing injury. From the occiput of
one child to the ocoipnt of the other, there is a
continnons spine, in a direct line. Upon one
side, and directly in the centre of the trunk,
were perfeotly developed hips, thighs, legs and
feet, they are in nice proportion totbebody
of either child. On the opposite side there is
one large, imperfectly formed leg, presenting
the appearance of the consolidation of two legs.
There are eight toes on this limb, two of whioh
have the appearance of great toes, being much
larger than the others. Eachhas a well formed
head, good features, good che-t, good arms and
hands, Inng, heart, liver and stomach. Be
tween the perfectly formed limbs, and properly
sitnated, are the anas and sexual organ, in com
mon The lower portion of the bowels, the
bladder, and perhaps, the kidneys, are in com
mon. All the oiher organs are separate.
There was but one umbilical cord and one
placenta. The length of the body is twenty
inohes, and the umbilicus is central in the ab
domen, and equi-distant from each bead. . It
nurses well at both ends, and, when first ex
hibited to the party, one child was asleep and
the other was crying. While the physicians
were making their examination, bnt a few
minures after; the one which was crying first
went to sleep, while the other remained awake.
When either head wonld cry, the perfeot leg
which was nearest to that head, kicked and
drew up, while the leg nearest to the other
head remained quiet When either cried, the
toes of the imperfect foot wonld move, bnt the
limb - remained stationary. Both heads nurse
well, and the child, or rather children, are in
excellent health. The physicians conld see no
reason why it, or they, should not live. The
mother is doing well There was no physician
present at the birth, and the labor pains lasted
only fifteen minutes.
Mr. Finley is alive to the importance and
valne of this addition to his family. He is now
charging gate money, and he informed the wri
ter that he had already entered into articles of
agreement with a gentleman for the sale of the
body, if it should die. The price fixed is $10,-
000. Negotiations are in progress for its exhi
bition, if it li9B He is convinced that there is
money in it, afad or alive, bnt he thinks there
is the most in the latter condition. He says he
is conscious of the fact that be is “an nnlarned
man, bnt has sense enough not to be foaled ont
of it."
It is certainly one of the most extraordinary
freaks whioh has ever occurred, and will cer
tainly attract great attention from the medical
profession, at least. Drs. Williams and Little
are well known to the brothers, Dr. Davis, and
many other physicians of yonr city.
Shall We have , a Female Bible ?—The Bi
ble has been a stumbling-block to a great many
reformers of the ultra Bort. At this moment
it standi in the way of Mrs. Cady Stanton and
Misa Susan B. Anthony, and their friends of
the extreme Woman’s Bights movement. The
command, “Wives, submit yourselves to yonr
husbands,” is particularly obnoxious to them,
and a resolution was adopted the other day by
the Woman’s Suffrage Association explicitly
repudiating the obligation. It wns declared
that the behest in question “should be thrown
aside with the exploded theories of kingcraft
and slavery embodied in the injunctions, ‘Hon
or the King’ and ‘Servants, obey yonr mas
ters.’”. Mrs. Stanton, indeed, took broader
{round. She did not waste her words on ise
ated texts, bat boldly demanded a revision of
the Script ores, with special reference to the
views she advocates. Mosea she tied to Montes
quieu, and then threw both overboard, com
plaining that “men hAd invariably translated
the Bible hitherto,” and contending that “if
women were now allowed to try their hand, we
should have another and an improved version.”
St. Panl, we fear, would then shkre the fate
marked out for M se3 — 1 Yoyl 'tflnrs.-
From the 17. 7. Express. 1
Slander is the great staple of the Badical am
munition against the Democratic party. Men the yoiing men now •°' ne . 1
who pass for gentlemen indulge in if, a3 well as wonld have ln=«m o„*i. C0mia 8 b
the Allens and McCabes, the thieves and high
way robbers who act with these so-called gen
tlemen in propagating their calnmnies. George
Wm. Cortis said last night at Staten Island,
that
“The Democratito party was unsonDd in its
priciples, and a mass of corruption through,
out.”
Tins comes from one who supports, belongs
to, and is a part of the party of the Whitte-
mores and Sootts, of South Carolina, the Hol
dens, of North Carolina, the Bollocks, of Geor
gia, the Camerons, of Pennsylvania, the Chand
lers, of Michigan, the Yateses, of Illinois, the
ring of Badical offioe-holderr, charged by the
Treasury with over four millions of Federal
defalcations; the Cahoons, of Riobmond, jnst
sentenced, for forgery against the State of Vir
ginia, to fonr years’ imprisonment in the State
penitentiary; the O. B. Mattesons, of New
York, the Simmonses, of Rhode Island, the
Bntlera and Stokes, of Tennesse—and ten
thonsand other graceless scamps belonging to
the Whisky and Tobacoo rings, who have
robbed the people and the country of
millions of dollars. If the Democratic
party is a mass of corruption, what shall be
said of the Badical party in power in Wash
ington daring the past ten years ? the party in
power in Albany for nearly twenty years prior
to 1869 ? Mr. Curtis has broken bread and been
in full communion with this party ever since it-
was bora in Saratoga, christened at Auburn,
and entered into manhood at Chicago. Know
ing its robberies during the civil war, its pe
culations since the war, leaving the real issues
of the canvass, he steps aside to tell ladies and
gentlemen who honor him with their presence,
that the Democratic party is “a mass of cor
ruption throughout.” Snoh sweeping calumnies
are best answered in the faot we state, and by
their own inexcusable recklessness nnd partisan
ship.
The State School Law.
From the Atlanta Constitution )
At the request of some, and for the benefit of
all of onr readers, we give a succinct synopsis
of onr State School Law:
The Governor, State Secretary, Attorney and
Comptroller Generals and Commissioner make
the Board. The clerk keeps all the records at
the Commissioner’s offioe. The Board now is
Governor Bullock, EL P. Farrow, Madison Bell,
and a Gen. Lewis, formerly of the Freedman’s
Bureau.
The Board shall meet at the Commissioner’s
office, when called by the President or a major
ity of the Beard.
The Board shold in trust any money or lands
given to the State for education. The Treasurer
shall keep the funds. The Assembly may in
vest them.
The Board shall have an official seal, with the
words “Department of Ednoation, State of
Georgia” on it.
The Board shall prescribe the text books for
nse, bnt can’t prohibit the Bible.
The Board shall meet in five days after the
Legislature meets and report its doings, etc.
- The Governor appoints the Commissioner,
who shall have an office at the capitol, and su
perintend the school system. He shall make
oath and prescribe forms and regulations for
reports and school instructions. Appeals oan
be made from him to the Board. He shall visit
the school districts and counsel with teachers.
Apportion the revenue and give warrants there
for on the Treasurer, on the basis of youths be
tween six and twelvo years; shall report annu-
ally to the Assembly, and require reports from
all under him in the State. In his reports he
most tell everything abont fnnds, schools, schol
ars, sexes, ages, expenses, etc. He shall, get
$2,500 a year, and his traveling expenses, and
have a clerkat $1,200.
Each connty shall have a school board, to
consist of one from, each militia district, and
one front each ward in cities, to be elected for
two years—the first election to take place the
first Saturday in January. The board shall
meet at the Conrt House the first Tnesday of the
next month, and elect a President and Secre
tary. The latter shall be connty school commis
sioners keep records, eto. The board shall
meet every three months to do business. It
shall lay ont sub-districts, containing not less
than thirty pupils, and prepare maps of them—
that is, of the snb-diatriots, and not of the
the pnpila—establish good schools in each dis
trict.
It shall be a body corporate, with the usual
rights of property, etc. It oan establish graded
schools, employ teachers, build houses, pre
scribe rules, and otherwise do pretty mnch aa
it pleases in running schools, which makes it
▼ery necessary to have tremendously good men.
The Connty Commissioner shall attend to ex
amining teachers, being required to pnt them
through a tight coarse of inquiry; he can re
voke licenses to teach for good cause; keep a
record of his doings and the doings of the
Board, and report annually to the Bute Com
missioner all about his connty schools. Re
ports are a heavy feature of this whole con
cern. He shall visit the sohools and keep them
all right, receive reports, advise trustees, etc.
On or before the find of November he must
send to the State Commissioner all the statis
tics he has on hand. He shall get $3 a day for
every day he works, and he must swear to hi*
account. The connty Board may say how many
days he shall work.
The legal voters of each sub-district shall
elect, the 1st Satnrdayin January of each year,
three trustees, one for three, one for two, and
one for one year, who shall swear to do their
duty, and can fill vacancies by appointment.—
They shall manage their local schools, employ
teachers who have licenses from the County
Commissioners, visit the schools, negotiate for
school houses, eto.
The fnnds for all this may be raised by tax
levied on _ taxable property and assessments on
labor, which assessment may be discharged.—
The Trustees shall arrange for white and col
ored schools, not to be together. They shall
annually, between the 1st and 15th of October,
take the number of unmarried people white and
black, male and female, between six and twen
ty-one years old. If they don’t do it. the com
missioners may employ some one to do it, and
oolleot coat ont of the trustees. The trustees
shall keep records and meet as often as they
please. They shall have no pay.
The teachers shall, report all about their
schools, and shall not get paid until they do.
Land used for schools np to fonr acres,
shall be free from tax. Whenever and wher
ever not less than thirty-five ohildren shall
be found between five and twenty-one yuars,
the territory shall be made a sub-district, and
furnished with a school, etc.
All resident children in cities shall be admit
ted to the higher schools, bnt the Board can
admit other pupils for pay.
City Boards may provide evening schools for
youths over fourteen.
The Board and Trustees shall provide for
holding school at least three months in the
year; and if they fail, their schools shall get
no school fund, and the officers shall be indi
vidually responsible for the loss; and the other
schools in the connty shall get the forfeited
fund and recovered amount. Boards had bet
ter toe the mark and push up the a, b, o’s.
The county quota of school money shall be
gent to the country treasurer, and disbursed on
order of the district trustees, countersigned by
the Connty Board or Commissioner.
When three districts near each other have
eaoh not more than fifteen children, schools
may be kept in each for two months regulated
as the distriot sohools.
The school fnnd shall come from poll-tax,
show, exhibition, and liquor taxes, gifts, com
mutation of military service, educational money
not dne State University and one half of the net
earnings of the State Boad, which, under pre
sent management, will be considerably less
than nothing. The State Board will report
what is necessary to raise by taxation.
Connty boards can organize manual labor
schools, with the approval of the 8tat* Board,
Teachers of private schools can collect for.
beneficiaries where these is no common school.
The State Board can't introduce sectarian, or
sectional text books. The Secretary of SWte .. ,, _ fsouui- ■ •
shall digest all the laws abont education In Ihe seven md* 8 •"‘I ****
the State, and he wih need *■ tough stonuelYlo' " tV tbe ®P° J
da ii. ■. Ino TWaeUo be Meaner
From Harpin' Jfaga, lne
• A LITTLE OAMp n. * I
You cannot see now^S we m?!*- I
the cabin tables surrounded V?
chants and politicians, carn^P^r^
Ue “« n > wbo would gamble J
night, and again till moraine
losing their entire.fortune,
encounter the elegant cenSL ,
ri gambler, who 32SSjKfi-
and not least in the nse of
knife. Well educated. • P w ^°l
were they, whose
stained with the blood of their r^ a Ma
All this class of men are
the south-west in this eoodL *1 to **
1870. The war didSplS*"« ^
sweeping them into tha o w 11 ^'
- world.'*
ssttnaSfetiJ
experienced traveler to
schemes of these miserable
them is short, rather carrie»5£u °a|
a cunning greasy, smooth-*W h , 18 ^
has small, ferret-liks eves inu
nose, like a carbuncle,
man is called the “Judge P° a ft. ’
leader of the gang, »Uho ag h^jjfe_
common clothes, with a write?? 9il
tenance, gives the dne
The third thief of the partv ;! ttl , eir
with black mustache, * *
gone look. It ishe who, in **
games, beta wildly and largjjSWgJl
ways loses, gets angry. td'Z™ •Ml
lookers-on. Thefourthof Pf * a ' s I
an honest tradesman, who^
business than betting.
One day these gentlemen „
poker, which is a favorite garnet,^
famous purposes. The “Ca lMn S" ^“1
give them such names as j
had £
and a
month” he gave three "aces 2da«i tt H
of hearts. With these hands ‘Ter^t®
“Wolf-month” began “KaW* /
most excited way, talking to eachfe'
rag to the crowd and getting Bp
pretty much as the clown and riLS
the circus, shouting and running M
make the audience believe th&tt&W 1
tiie “equine qneen” is riding is SR*
fast, when at is all a sham,
Such was the exoitement a&nUn^
gamingtable. Ke|
At this point there was a deid r, m ,
lence, broken in an instant by “fffjfJl
tbereroark beseechio S 1 y to by-skndm|
“Gentlemen, I’m Mowed if Iain'm
Meanwhile moving around the tabW'd
was a peaked, sandy-haired man, *hoU
board forty mules, which he is takingtefc
phis. This fellow had seen both toil
knew that “Wolf-mouth” had the stro».
Just &t this moment he caught the
eye, who continued: : ‘
“Ef I had a mule, wouldn’t I eliteh> I
and all, atop o’ that pile ?’’ “ “
“You kin bet one of ay mules,’'
answer of “Sandy-hair.”
“Will yon take the mnle?” cried-
month” to “Ferret eyes. 1 '
‘‘Yes,” answered the other, asking lh^
penter,” as he had a right to bjiheUf
gamo, for two cards in a plaoe of his m*
eight of clubs. That obliging gentlemstl
complied, giving him the fourth king a
ace. “Wolf-month” did not «sk for i
They showed their hands, “Ferret-era’J
in the pool, and “Sandy-hair,” to lii <
had lost his mule.
THE CARRIER FIGE0I1
Row they are Trained.
Balloons and carrier pigeons are ratsj
prominent agents of communication m
in the Franco-Prnssian war. 01 the ix
have spoken more than once; of the l
propose to say a few words now, hirtoi
asked frequently as to the modus cjMid ]
carrier pigeon is larger titan the couuuxn
measuring about 15 inches inlength uri*
ing abont one and a quarter pounik Ail
pondage of naked skin hang) act* isl
and continues down on either side of thtf
mandible. Its valne is estimated ;
its shape and size. Its strong, irsstincanl
of home is the qnality that readers it si
able, and fits it for its functions aa a
The birds are regularly trained when J
their trainers taking them at first short arf
from home, and then tinning then S
Those that fail to return home are
stupid, and rejected as valueless. Thy
return home are then taken to greitaiw
progressively increased from two uwI
thonsand miles. The good birds rerar
with unerring certainty. The birds isl
times kept in a dark plaoe for somehwj
they are used and sparingly fed, butah*
ly watered.
The paper on which the message a *
is carefully tied around the upper ‘
bird’s leg. but ao as not to imped* ® !
An old English ballad and a ime i- - *!
imply that the original way of supoail
dispatch was from the wing or arose:*!
bnt the above method is that now J
The employment of the c arri=r p? 1 ?
from remote antiquity. The rip®!
flight of this bird is almost mow'
bon speaks of passenger pigeons
neighborhood of New York with##?
of rice, which the birds co “,
dneed nearer than the ricefi=to““
Carolina. The same naturalist oo^ A
their power of digestion is so P** J
entirely decompose foodiriWJL
birds which were killed in lie
New York, must have traveled M j
and fonr hundred miles iasi** 5 * „
When the annual trial of w* PJ ^
beat carrier pigeons was docideJ
1833, twenty-four birds, which M "T
veyed from that plaoe, were 1
at fifty-five minutes past mue o ]
morning. The distance is on *. , 3 i
fifty miles. The first pigeon J
in one hour and a half;
two hour and a half, and three w
the day. Fonr were lost. TM /»“
the first bird flew was ninety ou ^
When thrown np the bird nsM,
d L toht will at first'!',
reached a good height *
round and then make off, c°“
wing without stop or stay, .
till its well-known home ts reae
The Baby.—But as
rudimentary arts he m ®y
show tho slightest possib.a g
velopmeofc of a moral sense. ^ j
sleep are simply inorfina - ^,
awakening are the small n®
scientions babies are as Je ®P'. yygrr
a capacity for yelling, wht f(
hardly bo expected from ?
At other times he reclines, ^
in dim yearaiDg after a P PT', ^
fist in lively anticipation o
glee. A baby is generally
tremely old. One almost n
whether the Platonic theory
may not be trae, and o.
ma> not be some extremely <-J r ,
has aeted rather badly ^ wi
istence, and has another mM^j
him. Babies look 4
when they are bom. \o&*\
ninety, but I have lirfj
eight and forty. 10 f L. fairly e**
the old existence, and are
this real sea of b quick**
hive rooks and shoals a
before they can com ®
And yet there w s° ia ® ,hl “ 1 g t0 ft,**,
baby. Boswell«
Dr. Johnson : “Sir, wb*t wo ^ ^
were shut up in a tows «bsiyff
1 what the response vss.■ m gt**
I should suppose, or s0 ®
and straightforward.
awful one, probably ,
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