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TRESSILIAN COURT
OB,
The Baronet’s Son.
Ity Sin**. HARRIET LEWIS,
AUTHOR OF THE DOUBLE LIFE, THE BAILIFF S
SCHEME,” * “THE SUNDERED HEARTS,' ’ “THE LADY
OF KILDARE,” “a LIEE AT STAKE,” “ THE
HOUSE OF SECRETS, ETO-, ETC., ETC.
CHAPTER I.
A FATEFUL CATASTROPHE.
A wild storm was ragiag upon tho Mediterra
nean Sen, near the close of a dreary November
day, and sky and waters were black with the
gloom of the sudden and fnrious tempest before
which a small sailing vessel was scudding under
bare poles. Her build and rigging proclaimed
her Sardinian. She was 7 he Gull, Captain Va-
rino master, on her way from Cagliari to Paler-
She had ou board two seamen and two pas
sengers.
These passengers were Englishmen, who had
procured passage on The Gull to Palermo,
whence they intended to embark by steamer to
Marseilles, the following day.
While the Captain and his assistants were at
tending to their duties, and expressing appre
hensions as to their safety, tho two Englishmen
stood apart, leaning against the low bulwarks,
and surveying the wild eoene around them.
These men were both youug, apparently of
the same age, about three and twenty, bnt evi
dently they were not of the same station in life.
One, the more striking of the two, was aristo
cratic io his bearing, tall, slender and hand
some, with a frank, smiling month, a pair of
fearless bluo eyes, set under a wide and massive
forehead, and tanny hair blowing back from
his face. Noble, generous and kind hearted,
he had an adventurous disposition and a daunt
less courage.
He was Guy Tressilian, ihe only son and heir
of Sir Arthur Tressilian, Baronet, of Tressiliun
Court, England.
His companion presented a remarkable rosem-
blance to him, being also tall and slender and
fair, with tawny hair and monstache, but he
had not the frank smile, the bright, fearless look,
or the joyous spirit that characterized young
Tressilian. Young as he was, he had seen much
of the daik side of life, and his experiences had
been such as to develop in him some of the
worst qualities of his nature.
He was Jasper Lowder, Guy Tressillian’s hir
ed traveling companion and bosom-friend.
The meeting and connection of the two had
a touch of romance. Young Tressillian had
spent four years in a German university,
whence he had been graduated with honor. On
leaving the university, in obedience to his fath
er's written command, he had undertaken a
tour of the countries inclosing the Mediterra
nean Sea, in company with one of his late tu
tors. This gentleman being unexpectedly pro
moted to a professorship, abandoned Tressillian
at Baden, leaving him to find another traveling
companion.
0a the evening of tho very day after this de
sertion, as Guy Tressillian was sauntering
through tte st; ee s of Baden, he had been as
saulted by a trio of his own oonntrymen, all
more or is? intoxicated. It was apparent that
they took him for another, and intended to
vTeafc vengeance upon him Without allowing
him to speak, they forced him to defend him
self. Guy was getting the worst of the con
flict, when a stranger came running to his as
sistance, and in a few moments the two had put
the ruffians to flight
This stranger who came so opportunely to
Guy’s assistance was Jasper Lowder. His re
semblance to young Tressilian awakened in tho
latter a romantic interest He questioned Low
der, learned that he was poor and alone in the
world, and took liim with him to his hotel. Be
lieving that the similarity of features indicated
a similarity of tastes and natures, ho engaged
Lowder as his traveling companion, and the
P&it year they had spent together more like
broth-rs than like employer and employed.
“This storm is a regular Levanter,'’said Low
der, clinging with both hands to the bulwarks.
“Doyou think the craft will stand it,Tressilian ?”
‘‘0b,yes,"answered young Tressilian, wiping
the salt spray from his face. “The Captain
knows the Sicilian coast perfectly. In two
hours, or less, we shall beinthebayof Palermo.
In three hours we shall be domiciled in the beat
looms of the hotel Trinaeria, with the best sup
per which Meiser Ragusa can furnish. And
to morrow, at noon, he added, “we sha'l em
bark for Marseilles in a Messageries steamer.”
“And from Marseilles you will proceed to
r,agUud and to Tressilian Court,”said Lowder,
with some bitterness “And I—what is to be
come of me? I h ive had a year of nnalloyed
htppinoss, and now comes back the drudgery,
the hopeless toil, the anxieties of the wretched
old life. You picked me up at Baden, a poor
adventurer seeking to gain a living by teaching
English, and the same destiny is open to me
cow.”
Tressillian turned his handsome faoe upon
his companion in tnrpriss and affectionate re
proach. “Jasper 1” he exclaimed, “you talk
strangely. Do you suppose I have called you
friend and brother so long, and loved you so
well, to lose you now ? I meant to have written
to my father concerning you and yonr future,
Jasper, but his sudden recall, received yester
day, causes me to return home without writing.
I shall telegraph from Marseilles that you will
come honi3 with me. And you will, will you
not ? You will not abandon me, my friend ?
I will charge myself with your future. I will
seo that you obtain the position to whioh your
talents entitle you Yon have no ties to keep
you on the Continent ?“
A strengo expression passed over Jasper Low
ders faco.
your gen
erosity Quixotio. He will dismiss from his
house the hired companion who dares to resem
ble Ui son—”
A sudden larch of the little vessel, a wave
t«ce' U1 ^ OTer ^ 60 ^» Interrupted the sen-
. ,' lYoa Wrong my father,” said Tressilian, his
iS 9 kindling, when the vessel had righted,
•as ig the noblest man in the world. Hd will
my friends aa his own. Yon will love
73."'“per, as I do, when yon know him.,’
fj, T “ e doesn’t seem very affectionate,” remark-
er ' “^ O0 have been away from yonr
tor fi ve yearSi and h a but ^ re04 u e< j
tt 8 Trsssilian's cheeks flashed, as Lowder
MAC03, TUESDAY,
“No, I have no ties,” ho said huskily.
“And you will go home with me
‘What will your father say to my coming ?”
demanded Lowder. *’Ha will think your een-
sawinlhe lurid glow that momentarily lighted
up the tempestuous scene.
“Youknow, orcanguess, the reason, Jasper,”
to said, with something of an effort “My fath
er has a ward, the daughter of p.n old friend.
Ah! hear that wind shriek! The gxle is in
creasing!”
“Yes,” assented Lowder. “ And tho ward is
Miss Irby—the golden haired Blanche of whom
you have talked so much, and with whom you
have exchanged letters ?”
Yes. My father formed a project to have
mo marry Blanche. He did not wish us to grow
np together lest we should loam to regard each
other as brother and sister. When Blanche
came to live at tho Court my father 6eot me to
Germany. The night before I left home ho
called me into his library nnd told mo all his
hopes and plans for my fature, and entreated
me to continue worthy of his innocent ward,
and to keep my heart pure for her. I have done
so Jasper. I have never yet loved any woman.
And yesterday I received my father’s summons
to como homo. Ho has recalled me after five
years of absence. I know tho wish that lies
nearest his heart. We wants mo to return and
marry Blanche. I shrink from the proposed
mrrriage. I dread going home. And I dread
offending my dear father, whom I love bettor
than any woman. It is hard, Jasper, to revolt
against the hopes and plans of a kind and gen
erous father, whose very love forma causes him
to urge on this marriage !”
‘"Is it?” said Lowder dryly, and with astrange
smile fall of sneering bitterness. “My experi
ence has been widely different from yours. Tres
silian. Did I ever tell you of my father ?”
“No. I took it for granted that he is dead.”
“Perhaps he is. I don’t know,” said Lowder,
with a reckless laugh. “But if he is living, he
is a scoundrel. Don’t start, TressiUaD, at my
nnfilial speech. Wait till you hear my btory. I
am in a desperate mood to-night This storm
stirs np all the bad within me. As nearly as I
can discover, my father was the younger son of
a proud old county family—•”
“You do not know, then ?” asked Tressilian,
pressing his companion’s hand.
“I have no proofs of it All I positively
know is this. My mother was of hnmble sta
tion, pretty, with blue eyes an apple-blosss'om
face, and tender, appealing ways. She was the
daughter of a widow, residing at Brighton.
The widow, my grandmother, kept a lodging-
house, and my father, a gay, dashing young
fellow, came to lodge with her. As might have
been expected, he fell in love with his land
lady’s daughter. He offered the young girl
marriage, on condition that the nnion should be
kept secret until his affairs brightened, and he
chose to divulge it. The young girl lored him
Her mother was ambitious and penurious. The
result was the lover had his way, and married
the daughter of his landlady quietly, almost se
cretly. Then he took his bride to London, to
cheap and obscure lodgings, where, a year later,
I was born.”
The wind, for a moment, drowned his voice.
As it presently lolled, he resumed recklessly,
and with passionate bitterness:
For years my mother and I lived in those
stuffy, obscure lodgiDgs until her bloom had
faded, and she had grown thin and wan and
nervous. My father visited ns at stated sea
sons, once or twice a week, bnt he never
brought any of his family to oall npon us, I
doubt if his aristocratic relatives even sus
pected the existence of the faded wife and son
of whom he was ashamed. I have good reason
to believe that he had fine lodgings at the West
End, where he was supposed to be a bachelor,
aiid that he went into fashionable society while
my poor mother and I lived obsenrely. He was
a profligate and a roue, but he had an air of
fashion that awakened my boyish admiration,
and aroused my mother’s sffectiona'e pride in
him. She wa3 always pleading to be introduced
to his relatives, and to have her son publicly
acknowledged. But my father always put her
off, saying that he was not yet ready. Worn
out and despairing, my mother died when I was
ten years old.”
Again the wind shrieked past, again tbe little
vessel lurched, the sea sweeping her deck.
The captain screamed his ord-rs to his men,
and for a few minutes disorder reigned.
“A nasty bit of weather! ” said Lowder. “And
a bad sky.”
“Yes, but I’ve seen as bad,” returned Tres
sillian. “We shall mako port all right, never
fear. We must be well on toward the Cape di
Gallo. And it’s only seven tuiles from the Cape
to Palermo.”
“But the seven miles in this storm are worse
than seventy in goo 1 weather. These coasts are
dangerous, Tressilian ’
- Lowder shuddered as he snrveyed sea and sky.
“But about yonr fa: her, Jasper ?” said Tres
silian, who had become deeply interested in bis
companion’s story. “What did he do after your
mother’s death ?”
“I remained at the old lodgings with our sin
gle old servant a mouth or more, my father vis
iting me several times, and expressing anxiety
as to what he should do with me. A week after
my mother’s death, he told mu that his brother
was dead A month later, his father was killed
by being thrown from his horse. My father
c^mo in*.<> riches and honors by iheBe deaths.
At last, deciding to rid himself of me, he took
mo down to Brighton, to my old grandmother.
Her sons were dead; she had gives up keeping
lodgers, and was grown miserly. Hu promised
her five hundred pounds a year to keep me, and
to keep also the secret of my paternity, solemn,
ly promising to acknowledge me some day as
his son and heir. The old woman agreed to
carry out his wishes. She would have done
anything for money. I never saw my father
again. I went to school, grew up, and at the
age of twenty-one came into my grandmother’s
money, the fruits of years of saving, she dying
at that time. My fa>her had deliberately aband
oned me. I did not know where to seek him,
if I had wished to. I took my money and came
abroad I had been two years on the Conti
nent, and had spent my little fortune when I
met you. The rest you know.”
“An odd, romantic story 1 Bat why did your
father abandon you?”
“That ho might be freed of encumbrance to
make a grand marriago. From what my grand
mother said at different times, I conclude that
my father was in love with a titled lady before
my mother's death. No doubt he married this
lady If he lives, this lady’s sun may be his
acknowledged heir. My father ba* utterly dis
owned the sou of his first hasty, ill-starred mar
riage. I have a fancy that I sh til meet him
some day,” and Jaspers brow darkened to deep
er blackness. “However, I stand no chance of
ever receiving justice at his hands.”
“What is yonr father’s name, Jasper ?” asked
Tressilian.
Lowder’s face darkened. He bit his lip sav
agely.
“What I have told you about myself I learn
ed from my own observation, or from chance
words of my parents and grandmother. My
mother's rasiden name was Jeanette Lowder.
At our London lodgings, ray father bore the
name of Lowder. I don’t know his real name,
bnt I should know his face anywhere, although
I have not seen him in thirteen years. My'
mother was actually married, Tressillian, but f I
never heard my father’s name. The clergyman
who married my mother was dead; the wit-]
nesses also. When my grandmother was dying (
she tried to tell me the story, 8he had pnt it.
off too long. All that I could understand of i
her mumblings was the name of D vortux 1 1
shall never, forget that name —"Devereux!’;
Probably that was my father’s name—my own j
rightful name. But as 1 should never find himj
if I sought him, and as be would repulse me if,
I did find him, I stand no chance of inheriting i
his property. He may be dead. He may have ;
other sons who have suooeeded him. It is all a
! mystery, bnt the prominent troth is that I am
I an outcast, poor, disowned and friendless.”
j He leaned over the bulwark, the spray dash- j
ins over his faoe violently.
Tressilian's heart wanned to him. '
“My poor fnend!” he said. “Most I say ]
again you are not friendless while I live. My i
father has influence enough to obtain for yon a ■
government appointment. This tangle may
straighten itself out some day. Bat if it don t,
you are ro3olnie enough to make your own hap
pir.e-i. ”
He grasped Lowder’s hand, and looked with
deri^io’SringYa^e fal1 of 8 - vm P atli y, into Low- y 1IIiEE ACTS - Jlu todd’s episodkis social euchre.
There had been a temporary lull in the storm.
But as the two stood there, the tempest revived
DIark Twain's Last.
From the Buffalo Express. I
I don’t go much on little games of koerds played
and swept over the wild sen in maddened race. ; _ with a stranger, . . . _
There was no lime for talking now. The Senee-dmned galoot !-I took a hand on board the
wind roso so high that words would scarcely
have been distinguished. Tho storm that had
gone before had been but play to this awful
outburst. The vessel drove on, creaking and
groaning, a mere cockle shell on tho billows.
“Mother of Mercies!” wailed tho Captain.
“It’s all up with ns, signores. I can't make ont
tho Cape in this darkness. We shall go on tho
rocks. St. Anthony save ns!”
The seamen echoed hi3 cries.
The two young Englishmen, comprehending
their peril, clasped hands in silence.
For the next few minutes it seemed that a
Pandemonium reigned.
Then a noise like the report of a cinnon sud
denly boomed through the storm and the dark
ness. The little vessel shivered, staggered, and
careened npon her side.
She had struck upon a rock.
A moment later crew and passengers were j
Natchez Banger,
With three smooth chaps that said they’d like to
pass tho time away
In a little social encore, or some such harmless
play.
I never had such luck afore, in any spot or place;
My hand was frequently lousy with both bowers
and the ace.
The chap next to me said, “If we was playin’ this
for lucre
You’d buret ns sure! we're lucky that its only social
euchre!” . .-
Bime bye tho chap on tother side, eez he, “If tLis
was poker
And I could diskeerd two keerds. ?d have a little
joker s
Pd beck my three remainin’ keerds for all I could
afford,
Agin three keerds in any hand there is around this
board!”
struggling in the waters.
A few moments of bufferings and tossings, of
vain struggles and agonized, involuntary prayer,
and then Jasper Lowder felt his senses slip
from him, and became unconscious.
When he came to himself, he was lying upon
a rocky beach of the Sicilian shore, sore, braised,
and weak as a child.
He opened his eyes. The wind had spent its
fury, and now moaned along the coast with a
desolate, despairing wail. The waves beat
against the rocks.
Lowdor struggled to his elbow.
“Wrecked!” he muttered. “I amcastashore,
while the others are drowned! Oh, ting is ter
rible ! I have lost my best friend to-night!”
He moaned and wrung his hands.
“Be is dead, who would have done so much
for me, and I so worthless am saved! All my
hopes of an easy and luxurious life must be re
signed now!”
At that moment he beheld a dark object at a
little distance in the water. The waves hurled
this object against the projecting head of asun-
ken rock. At the same instant Lowder recog
nized it as the body of a man.
He crept toward it, and the waters dashed the
body on the shore at his feet. He pnt his hands
on tho face. How oold and wet it was! It felt
like tbe face of a dead man! Lowder’s fingers
came in contact with the soft, silken mustache,
and he knew that the body was that of Gny
Tressillian 1
Of the five who had stood on the sloop’s deck
a half-hour earlier, these two alone were left.
The captain and his crew had found their deaths
among the cruel, yawning waters.
Lowder thrust his hand under the waiscoat
of his friend, bnt he could not peroeive the
beating of his heart. Despair took possession
of him.
“Dead!” he said shrilly. “Dead! And he
would have done so nrach for me if he had
lived! And his father and the young girl he
was to have marrried will wait in ’vain for his
coming! His place at Tressillian Court is
empty. Who. can fill it ?”
It seemed to him that some demon at his side
echoed the question: Who could fill the place
left vacant by noble Guy TressiUianf
A thought came to him—a thought so strange
and sinister that he shivered involuntarily.
Again he felt of Tressilian’s heart. It gave no
throb against his hand. He passed his hand
over Tressilian’s head and discovered a gaping
wonnd in the skull. The hair was clotted with
blood.
Patting his hand into his breast pocket, Low
der drew ont his little water-proof match-safe.
He opened it with trembling fingers and struck
a light. The red flicker danced on young Tres
silian’s face.
How ghastly and terrible it looked! The eyes
were closed, the smile was gone. The seal of
death seemed set on the noble features.
Lowder examined the wound. It had been
made by contaot with the sharp rock, and even
Lowder'perceived its terrible character.
“If he is not dead, he soon will be.” be mut
tered. “His brain has received an awfnl injury.
He will never know who he is again. He won’t
live till morning, and he is perhaps dead al
ready. He mnst be dead 1”
Ag-tin it seemed to him as though some demon
echoed his words.
The match dropped from his'fingers into the
water. For a little while he crouched on the
wet stones in silence, battling it may be with
the better and nobler instincts of his nature.
At last, with sudden and abrupt stealthiness,
his hands stole into the breast pocket of Tres
silian and drew ont his private note book, a
packet of letters, a few trinkets. He secured
these among his own wet garments. Their pos
session seemed to give him courage, and his
face hardened, and he knelt beside the body of
his friend and rifled bia garments of all that
they contained, bestowing his plunder on his
own person.
Then he took his own purse, his note-book, a
few receipts and trifles from his own pockets,
and put them in the pockets of Tressilian.
“It is done!’’ he whispered to himself, look
ing with wild defiant eyes through the darkness.
“No one is harmed. He is dead. If he had
lived, he would have provided for me. As he
is dying- or dead, I mu»t provide for myself.
This likeness between us will make my fortune.
His friends will be spared a terrible grief, and
I—I shall live at last 1 Fortune gives me a
chance to gain name and wealth at one lucky
stroke!”
As if to give himself no chance for repent
ance, be arose to his feet and turned his search-
I looked mine over. Bich? Yonbet! Iginachuckle
merry,
And know’d I had him! “Cap," sez I, “you air my
huckleberry!”
Then each of ns diskeorded two, I had all aces back,
And know’d them would lay over any three keerds
in the pack!
Soft thing? I gnoss not! “Cap,” sez I, “jest name
it if you please!”
Sez he, “wal, eince you are so kind, I’ll chip a Y on
these!”
“Jes so.” sez I, “I see yonr V and go two X’e bet
ter!”
“That’s just my fix,” sez ho, “Pm hound that I
won’t be your debtor."
To cut it short, I went for him, fast as a little
wagon,
I had a sure thing—jest the hand to make a hot old
“brag” on.
My pond got dry. He “called” me. I spread them
aces out
And reached that thar "pot,”I guess, without a lin
gerin’ doubt. '
Sez.l,
“Holdon!" sez he, “them are not good.”
“they can’t he heat.
By no three keerds Them aces mast bo just as
good as wheat!”
•"Wal, here’s three clubs—a flush,” sez he, “a ilneh
will still beat threes,
And captnre your three aces and the “pot” with
ease!"
Plucked ? Now you’re talkin’ i I was plucked as any
goose!
I would hev fit, but soon I seed it wouldn’t be no
use;
Them three smooth chaps was on it, and wasn't
sheered at danger.
Sinco then I don’t go much on social euchre with a
stranger! Caul Byiko. ]
Details of the Big Fight in the Senate
■Washington, December 23.—On Tuesday the
President sent word to the Senate that the San
Domingo resolutions must be put through Con
gress before the holiday reoeBs, or else the pro
posed commission would not have time to go to
Dominica and return, and make their report
before the expiration of the session. Yesterday
morning, at the early hour of seven o’olock,
Mr. Vice President Colfax was ringing the White
House door-bell to aronse the President, and
inform him that thirty minutes before, the Sen
ate, after a stormy session of nineteen hours,
hod floored Mr. Sumner, and passed the San
DomiDgo scheme, with bnt five dissenting Rad
ical Senatorial votes—Sumner, .Scharz, Tipton,
Patterson and Morrill, of Vermont. There has
been joy at the White House all day at the
prompt obedience to the Presidential dictum.
Republican Senators and members have called
to congratulate Grant, while-the talk has been
open that the threat of Conkling, mode in the
Senate last night, that Snmner should be turned
ont of the chairmanship of: the Foreign Rela
tions Committee, has been applauded to the
echo, “Let it be attempted;” replies Sumner,
“and Grant will be taught the lesson that Bu
chanan learned when he demanded that Dong-
lass should be removed. 1 from the head of the
Senate Territorial Committee.”
The scene in the Senate toward morning was
exciting; Chandler, of Michigan, had a good
head a good head of steam on and was at times
violent. Atonetimelie rose and desired to know
the authority of the Senator from Massachu
setts for.his statmnenbthatthe Presidentsonght
to have him displaoed from the Chairmanship
of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Mr.
Sumner had understood that the President had
in conversation with- a Senator expressed a de
sire for the removal of the* chairman of the
committee.
RAPE OF COLUMBIA,
JOHN DURDEN’S VISION.
AS NOBATED IN "WHITING FOB THE TELEGRAPH AND
MESSENGER, BY JOHN DURDEN, AND SWOBN TO
BY HIMSF.T.F BEFOBS SQUIBB THARPS OF THE
WARRIOR DISTRICT, BIBB COUNTY.
My name is John Durden. I live in the West-
tern part of Bibb county, in Warrior District,
so-called, although I am a man of peace and the
District is peaceable. Except in regular war, L
wur never in bat one fight in my life, and that
I am going to norato on oath. See my affivadit
below. If ever yon come to my house drop in
and see me. Yon will see a plain, hard-work,
ing man, whose word is as good as wheat. All
my neighbors will say the same.
My old mother says this fight,, that I am
going to tell you about, was amere-wislon of
the night. I know it wem’tbekase it happened
in broad day-light. My wife says it are a sort
of prophecy-like—a second sight. But I know
its not so. I should liko to git a second sight of
the watoh I lo3t—and the money, whioh were
taken out of my pocket, and of my mare Baldy.
which I haven’t seen sinoe. But the loss of that
property ain’t a second sight—nor is a broken
head, and skinned lingers, and a Ionised shoul
der, and my torn clothes and a hat all basted
to flinders. Them’s no second sight nor proph-
ecy nither, ef my wife does say so.
I call the fight a vision, bekase-a. vision is a
thing I seen for myself, and I know it to be so,,
and what I seen for myself I can swar to—and
when I swar, let any man as knows me jest
stand np and say John Darden is-a sworn Bar.-
Let him do it ef he will.
But I want to norate this story,Regular and
keerfnl from the beginning. You see it hap
pened on the 20th of December, inst., the first
day of BMlock's eleotion.
Says I to my wife, Susy, says-I,-1,believe I’ll
go to Macon and vote. What’s tho nse, John,
says sh?. All the neighbors say it’s- no nse.
They say the scalawags and the niggers has got
it all fixed under that law, and’ll vote-all- Mon
roe, Jones, Crafford,Honston; Twiggs and Jas
per, down to Macon. Yon might as well spit
in the sea to make it bile over as to.vote agin
Well, sea I, Susy, ef they all say so, and stay.
away from the polls, the niggers and- Bullock
will have it their own way sure-enough; but
here is one white man as is going- to town to
vote, hit or miss. So I saddled old> Baldy, and
my wife she says to me r be sure, John, you
don’t git into any moss—which li promised,
and off I put.
When I got to Macon yon may be sure I saw
a site. They had aotilly built a bull-pen agin,
the City Hall and were marching-the niggers np
to it two by two, till they got to the pen and
then they took ’em throng one by one and. voted
’em. Tbe column were a quarter mile long,,
lock step, and had, I-suppose, a thousand- nig
gers into it, hollering like ten thousand yearlin.
bulls. Jeff Long was the boss nigger, and Fitts
Patterick, he was foot lootenant But thinks
I, ril squeeze in here at tbe bead-and: get in
my vote immegiately and be off home.
So I tried to squeeze in at the head;: bnt &
man in a grey coat says to .me—back, sir; and
take tbe foot of the-colomn. When I got to tbe
foot, there were ajiundred and fifty or two hun
dred negro women, .bare-headed and hollerin’;
and enssin worse than the mem Gub it to the
dam rebels—gub it to ’em, boys.
When they seas me a cornin’ they ses here’s &
dam white trash—mash his head; and quite a
number of tho- he ones ses, says they, Ef yon
knows what’s gpod for you-sef you’d better be
gittin outenyere.
So, as I.bad promised Susan not to git into
any moss, I just thought Td stand, aside and
look on awhile.
Them fellers were high np and mily fierce,
yon may swar. Hurrah for tbe-gpon’ ’Publican
column !;ses they. Dam the- rebs and ef they
i wink?.at yon, boys, jess mash their heads.
Mr. ChandlBr, with a shout—“Will yon give i
bis name ?”" ’ L
Mr. Sumner—-‘I will not. It was stud that j Ike, ses one, what’s yonname die time. I’m.
the snbject was dismissed at length in the caucus James Green dia time* says-Ik a. Las time I
committee of- Republican Senators, which re- ! wur Bill Johnson,
vised.the oommittees of the Senate. ’ j _ .. , ,
Mr. Chandler, gesticulating violently—“Then, I man T tunes J oa morning, Ska f
I say, if, in any discussion whioh was striotly I’ae been troo do pen so far only four times,
confidential, that any member of that commit- but I-gub’em hell afore night. Yah, yah t Dai
tee was co mean as to divulge what took place U aSa me, Ike-I am only going troo de bull
at a private conversation, I have a right to Know . .7. ' S &
his name, and I demand it.” 1*“ d ® timo -
Mr. Sumner, with tremendous emphasis—“2 Whar be all the Jbnea county boys J- sea an-
shall not give it.” other. I thought thar wur mor’ia two hundred
Mr. Chandler, gesticulating violently-"! Ioneg g* ttore u ^
have a right to demand it, and every member — . .. , .
of that ooaamittee has a right to demand it. 01 ^ ar " _ Th®J JP 88 scattered round. Fitts
Any man that was mean enough to divulge pri- Patterick he sea.it’s bast not to- beep together
veto matters should be exposed. Ioancotbe too much. So. he’k jess a ’em wid do
tag glaDOM in .n talked direction. _ A light, aa to^tata o. .h.lta.1 ptao. a.Ttagg. tagged taitatagta
from a oottage window, glimmering faintly
through the thick haze, caught his gaze.
Raising hit voice, he called loudly:
“Help! Ho, there! help!”
The wind bad abated, and bis cries rang ont
through the night with startling distinctness.
The light he had seen moved and disappeared.
A minute later, answering ories reached Low-
in a strictly private consultation. I haw been ... . ...
in this Senate for fourteen years, andihave a® Monroe and Houston boys da is eomwg
heard many extraordinary speeches hare, and down to take- our places and gub ds rebs da
many assaults upon tbe Executive and upon debbel. H-o-o-p-e-e!
others, buthavenever, never heard snob a bru- After til thiases I to- myself, lets go up to the
tax assault upon anyone as that made to-day , „ , . * t 9 . ® - iT/-
upon the President by the Senator from Massa- bQ llp®xtwid whats going on thar. The
chusetts, and bis speech in seorek session on bull pen was hilt agin a door and a winder,, and
der’a ears, and he beard hasty steps, and saw ] Ibis snbjeet compares exactly with bis. speech was about six feat high and twenty foot square.
the approaching light of a lantern, borne aloft in open session.
by a man’s upraised arm. ] The Yice-President suggested toMr. Chandler
“this way!” fhouted Lowder. “We are'thatbe was transgressing parliamentary law,
wrecked on tbs rocks! For the love of Heaven,. and also mid the term slander, as just used by
hasten!” j another Senator, might also he considered un-
Tbe bearer of the lantern, attended by a male' parliamentary. Tbe Chair did not desire to oall
Somebody bad piled a lot of squared logs agin
it on the outside, bo they could look over and
see tbe sight.
About twenty white men and a thousand nig
gers was lookin'on. Thar wur one inspector, a
companion, came rnnning to him, and was soon the Senator to order, but made the suggestion mmi eittin on the winder sill, a taking the votes
at his side. The lantern bearer was a rough! in consequence of the Intense feeling whioh the names as the niggera gave era, and hol-
Sieilian fisherman, a grade above his elass. His seemed to pervade the Senate. kring the namss out loud, buttbar ware snoh
companion was also Sicilian, but evidently of ! Mr. Chandler—“Very well; I will alter my * IWU ® «"“■ >“77
somewhat higher degree. Both were all exoite-, language, and make it as strong as I can without J 1 ®* 1 w ® u * P® • .T Mr6 . 1 ? n .“*8 , j~°
ment, astonishment and sympathy. 1 being unparliamentary. [Laughter.] It would i QB ?5 ctol ‘> would oall out the nsmeatoq *To-
In os fewjwords as possible Lowder told the ; hardly be believed that tbe Senator from Mas- ny Brown, see the inspector. _TAwaax Bbown,
story of the*shipwreok]~on'd called attention to j saobnsetts was the first Senator that the Presi- f® 3 Gm gentleman. “Oliver Bauson,’ see the
... ® _ . . ■ « « T « , v. w • 19 muniiitriw I irv.vr fl
the condition of Us noble young employer. ] dent oonsnlted upon this matter.”
inspector. Oily Gammon, roan the gentie-
“I think he is dead 1” be said, - in a choking \ Mr. Sumner, interrupting—“After the treaty gum- “Stephen Strickland,” ses the inspeetpr.
voioe. “Carry him np to your cabin. Let ev-' was made it was no consultation.” Siinkum ptanklakd, ses the gentleman. Pbu-
erything be done that can be done to save him. ..... *
I will pay you well for any kindness to him.
Poor fellow! He was my traveling companion.
I loved him as if be had been my brother, in
stead of only my hired attendant! Poor Jas
per!”
The two Sicilians lifted the helpless form of
poor younsr Tressilian, and carried it between
them toward their ootlage. . Jasper Lowder fol- ] not attempt to load the Democracy.
Mr. Chandler—“The impression in the mind *P Sheridan,” Bays the inspector, Phaylim Q’-
of the President certainly was that ths Senator Harrioan, says the gentleman. Bufns Cross,
would favor the treaty.” inspector Kusrr Cuss, bawls the gentle-
Mr. Chandler then went on to intimate that inm- Petar Lawson, ses the inspector,
Sumner was affected with the Presidential ma- Paxtheb ImtrsxY, sea tae gentleman. Simon
nia, and oosepared him withDoolittle and Cowan Sweanngen, see the inspector, Simon Swxab-
and DixoD, and, asking where they were now, anythin, roars the gentleman. Zsob. Grego-
admonished Sumner to beware of their fate and 808 Gie inspector, Zaqx Bkogarx, bawls the
lowed them, bewailing his loss. The above we Mr. Sumner said be would not reply to Mr.
gentleman. “Pompey Nash,” ses the inspector,
Pompsy Squash, calls out the gentleman.
pab'.fi-h as a specimen chap".or; but tbe contin- [ Chandler’s aspersion on his republiomism. “D»iel Webster,” ses the Inspector. Daniel
nation of this story will be found only in the That Senator knew that be was as good a Re- Dabster, see the omoer. Hunter Humphrey,
N. Y. Ledger. Ask for tbe number dated Jan- publioan as he. That Senator bad done him t-houts tbe inspector. Bujiftx Dcmvtv, shonte the
great injustice, and he ought Id rise now In bis officer—and so on, fast as you oould think, and
seat and acknowledge it. a great deal faster than yon oonld well think in
Chandler did not seem able to rise, and then a horrid noise and confusion—the niggers
Sumner related what occurred when the Presi- singing and shouting and cussing and bellowing
dent asked him in relation to the treaty. “The —till just then a hundred of them hollered at
President did me the honor to call at my once “Stop that dam nigger traitor-he’s got a
house, and, shortly afjer his arrival, he took dimmycrat vote. Rill him, kul him.
occasion to speak to me about & new treaty. I ♦. Then there was a big rush, ana some city
must “be frank. He addressed me four times u officers collared one of the fiercest of the fel-
the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, lows, and started to carry him off lo jaiL TMn
nary 7th, which can be had at any news office
or bookstore. If yon are not within reaoh of a
news office, yon can have t^e Ledger mailed to
yon for one year by sending three dollars to
Robert Bonner, publisher, 180 William street,
New York. The Ledger pays more for original
contributions than any other periodical in the
world. It will publish none but the very, very
best Its moral tone is the purest, and its cir
culation the largest Everybody who takes it is
happier for having it.
Plenty or Chets.—There is said to be a large
acoomulation of nickel and copper oenta in the
post offices throughout the oonntry. In Louis
ville, Ky., for instance, the postmaster reports
100,000 of them. The whole number of such
coin now held by tbe several post offices will
probably reaoh 40,000,000.
riauRhter] and said tho treaty must come before Jeff Long screamed out, “Boys, don’t let’em -those rat eating Chinese!’ Cohaidqr them, my
r. . J ... tt mi I et a v_ lib. llint 9MA<« w Than a ♦ Vi cnn/1 vti/vnaM iluor fl ilnmlrift nrrtat VAtl All! fin £fi» Vitinrt anifw
that”committee.’’ There wae uncontrollable take that man off.” Then a thousand niggera
laughter at this all over the Senate chamber, rushed down on a dozen policemen, hoUering
Sumner did not say whether it was the Presi- like so many devils. Then a wagon load of sap-
dent’s tgnoranoe or what it was that made him lings came by, which they stripped in a twin*-
persist in so stupid a mistake. ' bag, and clubs and stones and brickbats flew
About twenty Republican Senators dodged like lightning.
was high time to be lookrag after Baldy which
I left tied to a post a few rods off. When I got
near Baldy, what should I see but a nigger jess
a mounting him.
-I seized the reins in a twinkling. What are
you doin’ with that are boss ? sez I.
Vvopressed him,ses the nigger. Pressed him?
ses I: Yes, golly, I press him to bring de guns
and'de arms and da pistils and de gummunishun
from de college. What ? ses I, have you got
arms at the ooltege ? Yes, golly, ses he,'a whole
bombazine of ’em, an’ we’ll gub de white folks
^plly litenin.
With that I fotched him a side-winder and
knocked him off the hoss. The white folks, bcs
1, will make hash of yon an’ ten thousand more
of you, before long, if you don’t koep more
civil tongues in yonr heads.
Jest then the Yankee soldiers came trotting
by with fixed baggonets, and seeing that they
would soon make a ease of the row, ses I to
myself: John Durden, what would your old
j?atiior»ay~IOboo jon in. cic_h a crowd aa this?
John Durden, what would your mother say to
see you in sich a crowd? What would your
wife, Susan, say to it ? If thi3 here is an elec
tion, it is a demoralizin place for Guinea nig
gers and I'll go home. With that I spurred old
Baldy and put off in a canter.
And now I come to that awfnl vision and
fight, and I want particular attention as I no
rate it.
As near as I recollect, I had just passed the
little bridge before yon come to the Gum Swamp,
and was quietly ridiug along with my head down
thinking of the lection and the row, when I
happened to look np and saw just before me a
wonderful sight. 1 saw a man olad^jn complete
and dazzling armor, and of such gigantic stature
that Goliah, of Gath, oould not have been big
ger. His head was covered with a golden hel
met which flashed in the bright sun. His whole
bulk gleamed like polished silver, and in his
hand he held a bright sword dripping with blood.
Beside him walked a chunky, squat, bow-leg
ged nigger clad in grey jeans,a wool hat and stout
Bhoes, with an immense knotty club in bis band
labelled “EQUALITY.” His crispy wool, wher-
ever uncovered by his bat, was wound np with
twine strings in little looks of the shape and
sizo of an earthworm, and covered with crawl
ing vermin. An awful fetor rose from his per
son liko the poisonons exhalations of a bog.
As I approached, the step of my horse at
tracted the notice of the giant, and he turned.
His countenance was stern, and full of hatred.
Upon his helmet I saw emblazoned the words,
“THE NE.W NORTH.”
His movements attracted the notice of the
negro, who, also turning, disclosed a label on
his wool hat, rudely scrawled, but still legible.
It was “DENEW SOUF.”
“Back, dog of a traitor and a rebel !” said the
giant—and I heard the negro say to him, in
gutteral tones, “dam white trash.”
I instantly checked my horse, and as Hooked
again a sight more glorious than I ever beheld
burst upon me. A woman, tall beyond exam
ple, and of incomparable and majestic beauty!
Her commanding person was draped in spot
less white, relieved by the most delicate vines
of living green. A light tiarra of sparkling
brilliants rested npon her lovely brow, and her
hair bore a single cluster of orange flowers. A
slender zone of gold and brilliants enclosed her
waist, and bore the legend of “COLUMBIA”
in letters of wonderful lustre. Her counten
ance betrayed great anxiety and concern, but
no hesitation or self-distrust.
By her side stood a man of uncommon aspect.
Hb was very tall and apparently sinewy and vig
orous in person, bat his arms were ooncealed
under a cloak—his movements betrayed restraint
and impatienoe—his countenance disclosed the
deepest dejection and bis thin and grizzled hair
told of disappointment and defeat. He bore
the inscription of “Tho Old South.”
■While I, John Darden, gazed upon this spec
tacle with the deepest wonder .end interest, the
giant North stepped forward, and in haughty
and commanding tones accosted the lady as fol
lows r
“I have sent for you, Columbia, to give you
a final expression of my will and pleasure in re
spect to yonr contemplated union with the New
Sontb. I must insist upon instant compliance.
The iutereata of the family have already suffered
too much from your unreasonable delay, and
this last remaining and most unjustifiable ob
stacle to a thorough reconstruction, must and
shall bo removed atones. I am determined
upon a perfect equality which shall strike at once
at the-root all those absurd and monstrona Ala
tinctions on account of color and raoe Which
lie at <befo<mjtti«a of sli our nunlly discords.
I have prepared the company—I have provided
your dower and it remains for you to give yonr
hand at onoe to this loyal and gallant man on
my right, mid thus establish his universal broth
erhood by the strongest and most intimate of
human ties-”
“O, brother,” she answered, “is it possible
that your wild and delusive dreams of equality
have brought you to this? Is there upon the
earth a being who boasts bo much as you about
the purity of your own blood and lineage?
Who tells the'world with every breath ‘lam
born of pilgrim stock,’and yet would mingle his
sister’s bipod with that of yonder sottish barba
rian? DothnotNatureandReasonrevoltatit,aud
all those heaven-born instincts of taste and soul
abhor it ? Do not even the senses we possess in
oommoH with the brutes protest against it ? Can
night and day dwell together ? Doth not even
Revelation clothe with blackness ail that is
loathsome in morale—repulsive in deformity,
or unwelcome..in condition? I tell you, ItBill
not yield to yonr despotic end unnatural re
quirement.”
. “I toleyou so, Mias Columby,” says tbe nig
ger. “You’d better hole yer yawp, and hear
what yer brudder say. lie know what’s what,
and de ting all fix right. Ton’s got to oome up
to de acratoh-*dat's for oertain. Why jess look
here, Columby," says the nigger, hy’ars all de
doekymenee fixup reghur,”—and throwing his
dub on the ground, tbe negro produced papers
one by one from his capacious breechoe-pocketa,
and continued: “Hy’ar, Miss Ooltunby,” see
he, “Hy’ar is de fourteenth menment, and
hy’ar ar de fifteenth menment, and hy’ar ar de
civil rights and equality bill; and hy'ar ar de
ax to enfaat de menment, an’ hy’ar ar Massa
Stunner's suppieparmentary bill to enfost de en-
foetment. 1 tole yer you’s got to cum up to de
scratch. Nigger juat as good as yoaSU now,
and dam site better.”
‘ Our colored brother phrases it somewhat
rudely, but, Columbia, he speaks the plain and
solemn truth.” I looked to see whence this
voice oame, and lo! Charles Sumner advanced
from the leafy covert of the woods, with many
more behind him. Sumner looked smiting, self-
important and triumphant. “I repeat it, Colum
bia,” said he, “our colored brother speaks the
truth The action of Congress in forcing those
bills and amendments upon the people was
shaped to rsot out forever every one of those
savage distinctions of caste, oolor acd raoe,
whioh have come down to us from the dark agyq
of barbarism. Massachusetts has pledged her
self to eradicate the last fibre of those unright
eous prejudices. Massachusetts musts hence
forth, npon the accomplishment of her aadred
purpose—upon 00 mm on cars, stages, steam
boats, theatres, churches, hotels, beds, mar
riages and all family relations ; provided,* that
nothing herein contained shall be oonstrued to
include the Asiatics, which Massachusetts can
not abide. Massachusetts is ciUar on Africa,
but down on Asia. Abraham Lincoln justly re
marked ‘The nation eon no.longer live one half
free and one-halt slave.’ and now Massachusetts
declares with equal solemnity, ‘We can no lon
ger live one-half negro and one-balf white. We
most have that beautiful blending of colors, in
whieh those startling contrasts shall be oh iter
ated, and the whole mass of tbe population,
r-hril be resolved into mellow, neutral and bar.’
monious tints, saving and excepting the tints of
“But if I might be so fco’d as to supplement
Mr. Sumner’s suggestions by showing the ma
terial inducements td tins Union.” The voioe
cirae from Butler, as he advanced at tbe head
of a noble army of Bummers, laden with tranks
and chests, and boxes, and sacks, and bags,
whieh clashed and jingled like the bells of a
Connestoga wagon. See here, lady," says But-,
ler,, kneeling down and emptying several at
these depositaries at her feet. “Genuine silver
ware—all of it. What a noble outfit for ybur
interesting family." . -
“Bah,” says Columbia in disgust. “My home •
shall be a harbor neither for stolen goods nor
negroes. No, ngver.”
“But what, then, will become of us I look
ed again and yonder advanced another crowd,
with carpet-bags and pockets stuffed to reple
tion. They hurried up m an agony of trepid
ation—Scott and Harrison Reed and" Littlefield,
and Warmonth and Mawmouth and Red Month
‘and Bullock nnd Blodgett, and hundreds of oth-
.ers, and, in the rear of all, even Wimpy with a
Tialf .million.of counterfeit notes fresh from
Wogan <fc Co. They pulled out their treasures
and flung them at Columbia’s feet—bonds, rail
way shares and all maimer of securities good,
bad and indifferent.
“Hear ns, Columbia, they cried. Help your*i
self to any or all these values and save ns from
the scorn and detestation of enlightened man
kind, by a noble sacrifioe of your person to the
cause of a common social plane with the negro!"
Columbia regarded them with a look of inef
fable scorn. “Ye are meaner creatures, still,”
said she. “Jaokalls who bring to my feet ths
foetid plunder of the fallen. Take yonr carrion
spoils away. They pollute my sight.”
“Enough! Enough!! shouted tho giant
North. Gentlemen, I call you to witness she
is insulting, obdurate, unrepentant. Let her
take the consequences. Brother New South,
she will not be your bride—let her be your
victim. Seize her, gentlemen.
Upon that, Columbia turned her despairing
eyes to The Old South, and exclaimed in piteous
accents, “Help me, brother! Can’t you help
me?” Old South contorted himself in inex
pressible agony. His cloak parted in his vio
lent writhing, and I saw he was chained,, and
the' rnsty iron hud eaten deep into his flesh.
Colombia saw it, too, for her countenance
gleamed with the inspiration of despair.—
“Death before Dishonor 1” said she—wad,
plucking a bright faleliion from her bosom,
she made at New Sonf, advancing upon her with
his knotted club, “Equality.” Just then But
ler saved New Souf from being & dead niggers
He swooped down npon her, swinging a sack of <
spoons, and I heard her shriek in agony.
Blind with rage, I jumped from my horse,
and, seizing something, I know not what,
plunged into the strife. Blows fell heavily
upon me, but I hardly felt them in the fierce
ness of my exasperation.
In a moment, however, I was Btruok down,
the feebler screams of Columbia still ringing
in my ears—all then was darkness and silenee.
******* When I came to myself
my head was bleeding—my hat cut to pieces—
my shoulder lacerated—my clothes torn—my
pockets turned inside out, and money and watch
gone—and, worse than all, my mare, Baldy, no
where to be seen. Perhaps, said I, she may
have gone on home when I dismounted to take
a hand in the fight; but not eo, for when I got
home no Baldy was there.
Now, Messrs. Editors, I leave this trne nar-
.tive of facta with vnn mifl vnn will Tvincti aK.
dear Columbia, what yon can do for humanity"
—what for yonr country by consenting at once
to sacrifice yourself in this hallowed union of
sturdy Afric with glowing and angelic Cau
casia!” ' w.
0 D . “Peace, ftnosger," sold Columbia.' “Yonr
the final vote by going home or sleeping in the There was ee mnoh noise there as in forty experience with my Sex disqualifies you trout
committee rooms. "net® 8 ° f the Wilder&ees, aqd I began to Ih'nk H g*Ttta§ WJ afiylpc flU subject ’
rative of facta witb yon, and you will much ob
lige a distressed man, if you will publish ths
following notice and charge it to me agin I Bell
another bale of cotton:
STRAYED OR STOLEN.—On the evening of
the 20th instant, my mare Baldy—yslier—4tali
ker spotted—three white hoofs andright foxeons
black. Fourteen hands high—saddle-marked,
and a good deal gaulded with plow harness.
Whoever will return the same to me at my plan-
tashun, or to the Telegraph and Messenger
office, or to Jack Ross or Jim Seymour’s store,
shall be sooterbly rewarded. My friends will
please advance the money, for I am boated at
present. Bnt I don’t believe the dam rasoalR
will ever bring back the hoes. Mr. Editora, I
am much distressed in mind and body. I gtm
below my affidavit to the truth of the forego*
ing, taken before Squire Tharp, and am, yonr*
truly, John Durden..
We omit Mr. Durden’s affidavit. No matt-
will question his statements, who. knows Mb ,
Darden. EuirqRa.
now. BEK BILL
The Ground* for the Statement that h* hus
Made Overtures 10 the Radical*.
Warbenton, Ga., December 23,ri#78r-
Editor Constitution: Dear Sib—I* your Is.
sue of the 17th inst., yon reprint an, editorial
from the Warrenton Clipper, entitled “Deo.
Hill and his last,” and in yotu oomnaepta there*'
on you say that it is incumbent on the Clipper
to prove tbe insinuation contained therein
against Mr. Hill, or remove the raoepdo.
In that article ths Clipper uses this-.lpqgnaee,
“Ben and the banished Israelites are parallel
cases—judging from a recent private.letter
written by Ben to certain prosaiftecl jiadioria.
So sayeth rumor.”
If the Constitution claims to, be tho..month-
piece of Mr. Hill, a note to that' effect will
bring forth the proof. If Mg. HaU will publicly
deny that he has written ta letter to a known
Republican of this county, in whieh he ta»n>
completely over to Republictoism^we trill pro
duce the proof. If Mr. Hijl will publicly deny
that he wrote a letter to tho Republican Exec
utive Committee of thiB Oopgressfonal Dptriet,
in which he endorses General Grant for Presi
dent in 1872, and in which be uses language
looking to the position cLUnited States Senator
for himself, we will prove That a member of
that committee reporta.jhit he has th J* letter
"in his possession, and-that he boasts of the foot.
Individually, I regvpt that Mr, Hijl bee been
gniity of these thingis as he claim* to be a Dem
ocrat, but as a member of the Democratic party,
I deem it my duty to make them^nblib. ‘ 1 can
not tie myself to men and ignore prtnctyltt
Sorry to see that several of the Democratic pram
cannot draw thx. line between Den and
principle.
Yonr notico.yronld have hod ,my earlier at
tention, and tsty reply appeared in the enfomitt
of the Clipper but aa l do the majprity of the
labor npon my paper, my time baa been ooan-
pied in working for the. success of the Demo
cratic parly of Warren daring the past six days,
to the neglect of my private affairs, and will
not ibsne my paper till Saturday,
l^epectfully yours,
„ ,■ MoGkkjoe,
Editor’Wkrrenton Clipper.
Commenting upon the above, the Conatita-
tic^aays :
We have been informed: that Mr. Hill "ac
knowledges to having received It-tiers from Be*
pabticana, ahd having answered Muni, bnt the!
-be dentes anything wrqpg in the correspond
ence, or any leaning to Radicalism.
The
Georgia gtc^tUfivvAkenuuM
'■ Harnett Dtaefiedt
The New York Tribune, of Saturday, has At
following. Italics arc ours:
It will not do to'acoord full credit yet to the
report whioh gives Georgia, by a slight majori
ty, to tbn Democrats, though such result in a
State xchere the lfrpvb!ioou party has been M
badly managed tcul not surprise ,•». Thiryirn
test was. spirited, anA for the first two days the
advantage wan largely w\fh the Republican*.
T*e eleotion is an important one. Seven Rep
resents" ives are ta be returned to Congress, end
the selection of two Senators will depend dti the
Legislature: chosen at this time* Already NW
Senators have been elected by this State rise*
the war, but nunc have aa yet been admitted.
The Tribune 1 * Washington special at the day-
before says: ^
The result of the election i
the returns are (fieagre,
rash aa to preclude the poeaibitir;
fitted, of Attorney General A'
to the United States Senate;
tion from his
I
doubtful than o
think, his bmith
office. 1
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