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MACON. APRIL 4. 1871.
Letting Himself Out.
Forney, in his Philadelphia Press of Monday,
fairly lets himself out on the President's procla
mation declaring South Carolina in a state of
insurrection. Says that ingenuous politician:
“A half a dozen years of unpunished crime—
of unwhipped cowardice—murders by every
swamp and bayou—the burning of schoolhouses
and driving out with insult and blow of school
masters and mistresses—have at length culmi
nated in organized insurgency, and this morn
ing the country at large reads the official an
nouncement from the President of tho United
States of a State in insurrection, and once more
the bayonets of the army are slanting towards
the South.
“Social disintegration has evolved organized
rebellion, as it must. It was but a question of
time, and the lime has come quickly. Again we
are back to tho days of proclamations and or
ders and hurrying troops. Again the serpent
rears its bruised head and with hissing fangs
and glittering copper crest invites the issue of
force.”
And Forney drives through a column at the
same rate. Ho says the North approached the
South with a kiss where only a blow would be
felt. It committed the mistake of applying
legislation which “would be fitting for Boston
to a pack of ‘savages who fought with bowie-
knives, and called themselves gentlemen’ ”—a
poor, ignorant, beastly, barbaric set of out
laws.” Now, the blood of the murdered vic
tims of six long and hopeless years of outrage
and butchery clamors for vengeance, and ven
geance shall come. If thirty regiments will
not do the work, sixty shall be sent, and so on
to the end of a long farrago of falsehood and
malevolence almost inconceivable.
But Forney’s paper has, no doubt, caught the
idea of this Ku-klux movement. The desperate
partizans, of which it is a leading organ, have
conceived the hope of escaping the threatened
wreck of their political fortunes by rekindling
the flame of Northern wrath and hatred against
the prostrate South. It will probably be a fail
ure—but then their case is so desperate that
they must take all tho chances—they must catch
at every straw.
Holden and North Carolina.
According to the declaration of the Washing
ton Chronicle, the President’s organ, Holden is
to be sent back to North Carolina under the
protection of a Federal force—whether or not
to reinstate him as Governor, the dispatch does
not say. Ono thing, however, is clear enough
no personal violence was ever attempted against
Holden, notwithstanding all his outrageous as
saults on the liberty and security of peaceable
citizens. He has dominated over the people,
thus far, with'entire personal impunity. It is,
therefore, somewhat late for him to set up per
sonal fear of the Ku-klux; but we suppose
Grant demands the sacrifice at his hand.
The Ku-klox Sensation.
The Herald, which has been laboring very
assiduously at tho.Ku-klux Bellows and helping
Grant to blow up a flame, seems to have be
come discouraged, and says, on Sunday, in a
fit of disgust:
Admitting that there are disorders in the
South, and particularly in South Carolina, it is
worthy of notice, however, that the reported
terrible Ku-klux outrages are always made to
assume a formidable character at the time of
elections in the North, and when Badical poli
ticians are pressed for issues before the people.
Conservative men who have just come through
the Southern States were astonished to hear,
when they arrived at the North, the frightful
stories of Ku-klux enormities. We are inclined
to think there is much more political smoke
than real fire in these reports.
What next will the Badicals try if Domingo
fails and the Ku-klux scarecrow breaks down ?
Tbe Ku-KInx.
John Forsyth, of the Mobile Register, in that
paper of Tuesday last, tells what he know3 about
the Ku-Klax in tho following:
That drunken, vulgar millionaire from Mich
igan, Senator Chandler, lifted up his hands the
other day and swore that while tens of thou
sands of negroes and white Unionists were being
beaten and scourged and murdered in the South,
humanity forbade Congress to adjourn without
enacting a remedy. The unfathomable liar!
We give our Ku-hiux experience: Since the
dose of the war, with rare exceptions of a few
weeks, we have not been out of the South. We
can say on honor, first, that we never saw a
member of a Ku-klux Elan. Second, we have
never seen a man or woman who had seen one,
or who suspected that he or she had seen one of
these mytn3. Third, we never saw a man that
we suspected of being a Ku-klux. And all this
time we have been at the head of a public jour
nal, it being our daily business to find out and
note what was going on in the world around us.
This, too, in a community where the whites are
tbe political masters of the situation, and in a
District, in which ex-Congressman Buck, the
slanderer of his so-called constituents, lived
and lied.
The Connecticut Election.—Democratic and
Badical correspondents in the nutmeg State are
equally confident of carrying it next Monday.
Both, beyond a doubt, in their judgment, will
elect three out of the four candidates to Con
gress, and carry the State ticket like a flash.
All the candidates are gaining strength every
day, which is proof conclusive that a full vote
will be polled. It will be a straight-out fight
between the two parties—no temperance—
labor-reform—woman suffrage or other side
shows: English will beat Jo-well about 1,500
votes, and Jewell will beat English about 2,000
votes. This is the information we gather from
a diligent reading of both sides. The almighty
negro, who comes in legally for the first time in
Connecticut this year, is the sheet anchor and
main dependence of the Badicals—hut the Dem
ocrats snap their fingers at him, and say they
will tear the laurels from his woolly scalp with
the votes of the white trash. We shall know
who is governor after the election. The “Bads
of the nation” are doing their beBt to save Con
necticut. If they can’t stop it from following
New Hampshire, the moral effect will be bad.
“SOUTHERN DISORDERS.”
Their Cause and the Remedy—A. Radical
Journal Reads Itself out of me Party
Really it seems that wonders will nover cease.
First, we had the Chicago Tribune, the Boston
Advertiser, and the New York Commercial Ad
vertiser all staunch conrt cards in the Radical
newspaper pack—crying out against some of the
latest nd most loathsome devices of loilty to
perpetuate its stolen power by farther outrages
upon the Southern whites, and now comes Dana,
in the New York Sun, another Radical organ,
with a heavy reinfbrement for these rebellions
journals. We have seen nowhere a squarer and
stronger statement of the causes of, and remedy
for the disturbed condition of Southern affairs,
nor plainer and more sensible advice to Grant
and his malignant minions. We do not expect
they will heed it, but the vote of the South>next
year will bum it on their memories in charac
ters never to be effaced. Says the Sun:
What then is tho primal source of these South
ern disorders ? Many minor springs contribute
to swell the current; but the main fountain is
the character and conduct of the carpet-bag ad
ministrations which rule and rob the recon
structed States. At the close of the war, adven
turers from tho North, drawing to their support
nearly the entire negro vote, got control of
those administrations; and by the aid of Con
gress and General Grant, these adventurers
have contrived to keep in power in nearly all
those States down to tho present hour. Through
out these six years, the former ruling elements
of the South, excluded by tho Fourteenth
Amendment from participation in the govern
ment of their States, are naturally incensed
against tho domination of men of little charac
ter and substance, who do not really reside in
tho country which they rule, who treat it as
vnltures treat their prey, who are ready to leave
it as soon as they havo glutted their greed, and
who, in furtherance of their schemes of plunder,
are piling np mountains of debt that are sinking
those States into hopeless bankruptcy,
Coercive acts of Congress, and the boyonets of
the United Slates army, can never cure these
evils. The first step toward reform is to remove
all civil disabilities from all classes, and concede
all rights to everybody, and then compel these
carpet-bag administrations to pass the ordeal of
ballot-boxes which are open to all citizens, and
which are allowed to confer office upon their
favorites without restriction. When this is
done, the President may, with a good grace,
insist that the Southern States obey the laws.
Of one thing the Republican party may be as
sured. They cannot maintain their supremacy
in the South by political disabilities, coercive leg
islation, and the swofd of the Executive. The
mere suspicion that they are attempting to up
hold their power in that section of the Union
by such means will recoil upon them with re
sistless effect in the North and West. The peo
ple are not satisfied in regard to the existence
of the alleged facts on which it is proposed to
base so much exceptional legislative and ex
ecutive action. They demand tho proofs. Bet
Congress, then, appoints committee to take the
testimony, and in the meantime let the Presi
dent be sparing of his proclamations and his
bayonets. As tbe case now stand, considerate
men, whose nerves are steady and who have no
partisan ends to subserve, do not beliere that
the country is on the eve of another rebellion.
Progress of txx Joint Commission.—The
New York Times’ Washington correspondent,
writing on Sunday last, says that various ingeni
ous but fruitless efforts have boon made to dis
cover tbe exaot state of affairs before the Joint
High Commission, but assurances come from at
least three distinguished and well-informed
parties that there will be an equitable settle
ment, from the fact that all points are being
adjusted to a combined arrangement. Some
delay is necessarily occasioned by the British
Commissioners either advising their Govern
ment of the progress of affairs or consol ting it
oy telegraph; and it is further said that a few
weeks only will elapse before the Joint High
Commission will come to a conclusion of their
labors. If this shall result, the President will
transmit the treaty or convention to the Senate,
should that body be, at the time, in session.
Pams was reported quiet on Wednesday. The
insurgents hare full possession of the city, and
propose to disarm all the National Guards who
do hot adhere to their canso, and to shoot down
all dissenters and opponents. Thiers has ob
tained consent of the German government to
tooroaae the Paris garrison to eighty thousand,
When his government regains possession of the
City.
AVeoetable Trade.—The Register says an
Important fruit and vegetable trade is opening
between Mobile and the Western cities, over
the Mobile and Ohio railroad, and that business
will, in time, exceed the cotton trade in value
pf that road.
Platform or the Democracy.
Under tins head tho Washington correspon
dent of tho New York Herald telegraphs that
paper as follows:
The leading Democrats in Congress are well
aware of the fears expressed in certain quarters
that the advent of a Democratic administration
and a ruling majority in the Honse of Repre
sentatives might restore to a great extent the
supremacy of the South and involve the conn-
try in a host of complicated and internal troub
les. They indignantly disclaim tho possibility
of any snch result, and maintain that the Dem
ocratic party of to-uay is a truly national party.
Upon many of the public questions of the day
they entertain opinions diametrically opposed
to those of the administration and the Republi
can party, and they think it is time the position
they assume among themselves should be com
municated to the country. With this view it is
understood that, at the earliest favorable oppor
tunity, Fernando Wood, who has carefully con
sidered the matter, will present a resolution in
the House of Representatives declaring that it
is the duty of Congress—
First—To provide for the immediate redac
tion of direct taxation and of import duties to
a strictly revenue standard.
Second—To provide for the immediate reduc
tion of pnblio expenditures in all the depart
ments of the government.
Third—To abolish all sinecure offices and the
system of collecting the revenue by secret In
formers and spies.
Fourth—To restore to the people of the Slates
and their local governments the rights originally
possessed by them under the Constitution.
Fifth—To abolish governmental paper money
and to restore the only constitutional currency
—gold and silver.
Sixth—To reduce the army to a peace footing
and abolish a system recently established of em
ploying military officers in the discharge of civil
duties.
Seventh—To provide against the accnmnla-
tion and retention of large stuns of money in
the public Treasury, by which the interests of
the people are subordinated to government in
fluence and made dependent upon the caprice
and personal views of the head of that depart
ment.
Eighth—To prevent the purchase and sale of
the pnblio credit by the Secretary of the Treas
ury, at his own option, with no other control
than his individual and personal wilL
Ninth—To bring the President and his Cabi
net advisers under the authority of law, making
them obedient to its provisions and alike with
others subject to its penalties.
Tenth—To restore to the Southern States and
people peace, prosperity andcontentment, which
can only be accomplished by a cessation of vin
dictive legislation and military interference and
a recognition of their equal rights, including
self-government and political equality with the
other States and peoples of the Union.
Eleventh—To revive American commerce.
Twelfth—To restore American credit.
Thirteenth—To reinaugurate American Re
publican simplicity in the administration of
pnblio affairs, and
Fourteenth—'To aid, by all proper, legal and
constitutional authority, in toe foil develop
ment oc toe agricultural, mineral and commer
cial resources of the country.
What’s In the Wind ?
The Washington correspondent of ton Louis
ville Ledger says:
The Radical plot thickens, and the grand
conspiracy against the peace and liberties of toe
oonntry is growing stronger every day. The
nltraists are acquiring again, full control over
the Radical party in Congress. Maddened by
the New Hampshire election, alarmed by the
Snmnor-Grant quarrel, they are anxious for
some great excitement to unite their party.
The South is to be the scapegoat of this party
neoessity, and their purpose is boldly avowed
by Republicans. They say they cannot afford
to adjourn with their party quarrel unsettled.
As a part of this sensational scheme to work up
an exoitement, the President is oat this even
ing in a proclamation threatening South Caro-'
lina with Federal troops, and encouraging dis
order in that State, ami. asking authority to
overcome it. This is following up his message
of yesterday, and both are nnderstood hero to
be a part of toe party tricks by which toe conn-
try is to be oonvnlsed and terrorized, and toe
South made to vote the Radical ticket.
Sumkeb Forgetting his Fhxunthboft.—The
foot is noted here as exceedingly significant that
throughout the whole debate on and considera
tion of the matter of Southern outrages, Sena
tor Sumner has not uttered one word, has not
once lifted np his voice in behalf of the poor
white and colored victims of toe hellish cruelty
of tbe Ku-klux. He has been so intent upon mat
ters personal to himself that he cannot find time
for the aid of an oppressed race in our own bor
ders; and then, too, the comforting sympathies
of the Democrats, so profusely tendered, might
be checked by an ordinary expression of Sum
ner’s real views on snch questions.
So says the Washington correspondent of toe
New York Times. In dne time we apprehend
this obliviousness will not be confined to Sum
ner. The whole of them will be “forgetting
their philanthropy,” sneh as it is.
Steel and Ibon Rails.—The Aurora Beacon
learns that a double track of steel rails is to be
laid very soon between Chicago and Aurora.
It says toe durability of tbe steel rails has been
tested on one of the main tracks in the shop
yard at that eity—a steel rail laid by the side
of an iron one having outworn seventeen of
iron rails, the steel rail remaining still good.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
The editor of too Gainesville Eagle thinks
some people np thero are putting on a lot of
most disgusting airs becauso they call envelopes
engvclppes, and so do wo. If they can’t give Ike
word tho real Francais twist, let them stick to
toe English pronunciation.
An ambitious billy goat tried to butt an en
gine off too track of the South Carolina railroad
at Augusta, Tuesday afternoon. His funeral
was very largely attended by his tribe.
The Sparta Times and Planter says “the
Yonkers and New York Fire Insurance Company
have refused to adjust the loss of Mr. W. B.
Hunt’s gin-house which was burned several
weeks since. Mr. H. has secured tho services
of able counsel, who have already begun the
prosecution of too case."
The Savannah News of Wednesday, says:
The General Ticket Agents’ Convention.—
A very large number of - tho members of this
body, comprising too representatives of various
road3 in toe North and West, arrived in too city
yesterday afternoon by special train from
Charleston, and took quarters at the different
hotels. Others are expected to-day. The Con
vention will assemble at St. Andrew’s Hall to
day, at 12 m., for tho discussion of tho business
which has called them together, which is to ar
range through rates of fare for the summer
travel.
After tho business of toe Convention is over
and the delegates have seen the points of inter
est in and around our city, we aro informed that
an excursion will be made to Florida. The ronto
will be via Jacksonville, and up toe St. John’s,
comprising the most interesting and attractive
portions of that State.
Hon. Erastim Brooks, one of the proprietors
of the New York Evening Express, is in Savan
nah.
Six thousand one hundred and forty-one
bales of upland cotton, valued at §380,485 C2,
and fifty-seven bales of sea island cotton valued
at §8,400, were shipped from Savannah for
Liverpool, Tuesday.
Tho Savannah Republican, of Wednesday,
says no new developments have been made in
reference to the supposod defaulting revenue
collector, Mr. Gould. Bets are freely made ancT
as freely taken, that Mr. Gould will not appear
in toe course of six months to answer to his
bondsmen. His furniture, which was most
elaborate, was sold at auction yesterday, by
Bell & Hull. His whereabouts has not been as
certained by last reports.
Tho Atlanta Sun is responsible for the follow
ing strange story:
Remarkable Honestt.—A gentleman from
the county of Forsyth, hauled in his cotton yes
terday, and when the speculator sampled it,
twelve cents per pound was offered as the high
est market price, when the gentleman examined
the sample and contended that the speculator
must try the other side, as be knew it was far
inferior and not worth the top of the market.
The other side was sampled and the honest farm
er sold his cotton for ten cents per pound.
Of the retirementof Mr. J. H. Anderson from
the Constitution, toe Son says:
It is nnderstood that Col. E. Y. Clarke is the
purchaser of Mr. Anderson’s interest Col. O.
is one of toe most estimable and worthy yonng
men in the city. He is regarded as a rising
member of toe legal profession, was a gallant
Confederate during toe war, and bears a per
sonal character of which any yonng man might
be prond. It !b not bis intention to abandon
bis profession to connect himself with the press.
but, we are advised, that his purchase of an in
terest in toe Constitution was merely a business
speculation.
The Colnmbns merchants paid taxes on sales
to the amount of §4,SCO, 100 daring toe year
1869. The books for 1870 shows §4,440,000
worth of goods sold.
The Hebrew Church at Augusta has re-elected
Rev. A. Blum, Rabbi for two years, and in
creased his salary.
The honse of Mr. J. D. Williams, in Harris
county, with most of its contents, was burned
one day last week. One of his daughters and a
child narrowly escaped death. Loss §3000, and
no insurance.
We quote as follows from the Colnmbns En
quirer, of Wednesday:
Family Relics Recovered.—OoL F. G. Wil
kins, on Monday, received per express from Lt.
J. H. Bradley, at Atlanta, a number of articles
which had been captured from him on toe Lanrel
Hill retreat, in West Virginia, on the 13th of
July, 1861 (nearly ten years ago). Among these
relics are a small Bible which had been given
him by his daughter; one pair of sleeve-bnttons
enclosing miniatures of members of his family;
a gold watch chain and 15or 20daguerreotypes.
With these articles were captured a number
of watches belonging to the Colonel and mem
bers of his company. These had been appro
priated by toe Yankee soldiery and were not re
covered. The articles returned fell into toe
hands of Lieutenant Bradley, of toe Federal
army, who, after the war, finding oat Colonel
Wilkins’ whereabouts, notified him of the safety
of his property and promised to forward toe
same, but before doing so, was ordered to toe
Plains, where he remained several years. Re
cently he has been stationed in Atlanta, and on
Monday forwarded toe articles to CoL Wilkins,
as above.
P. S.—Bradley is strongly suspected of in
sanity or disloyalty—one or the other—in trooly
loil quarters.
The Athens Watchman says that toe prospect
of the wheat crop in North-east Georgia is un
usually promising, but there isnot enough of it.
Of the prospects of toe contemplated North
eastern Railroad from Athens to Clayton, toe
Watchman reports as follows:
We regret to learn that some of toe people
of the up-country are becoming discouraged
on account of tardiness in commenoing opera
tions in furtherance of this great work of inter
nal improvement. While candor compels ns to
admit that the matter has not been pushed as it
ought to. have been, there is yet reason to be
lieve that it will be vigorously prosecuted ere a
great while.
In this connection we will mention that Dr.
H. H. Carlton and Mr. W. P. Dealing are now
gone on a mission to Canada in the interest of
this road.
Bollock has issued a proclamation authorizing
toe Ordinary of Floyd county to order an elec
tion for member of toe Legislature from that
county, to fill toe vacancy caused by Gapt. H.
A. Gartrell’s death.
The gin honse and contents of F. O. Rixey,
who lives about seven miles from Rome, was
bnmed Monday. Loss §2,500.
In DeKalb Superior Court, Wednesday, two
negroes, Randal Sams and John Griggs were
convioted of burglary in too night time and
sentenced to twenty years imprisonment in the
penitentiary.
The storm last Sunday was terribly severe
near Barnesville. A two story hewed log honse
occupied by Joshua Willoughby, on toe farm of
E. T. Pound, was blown down, toe falling logs
killing a son of Mr. W.’s and seriously crip
pling six or seven more of his family.
A pretty tale is related of toe Germans at
Ohateaudon. They smothered twelve persons
to death in the cellars and then made the inn
keeper and his wife serve the Duke of Saxe-
Meinengen and his staff a splendid supper. The
guests drapk the health of Queen Augusta, of
Bismarck, of Moltke, and other personages. At
last, when half the bottles in the cellar had been
used, General Wittich demanded the host and
hostess, “Yon have given ns an excellent din
ner : I wish, therefore, to reward yon with a bit
of equally excellent advice. Gather np as quickly
as possible, your money and any other valuables
most easily transported, and leave your house
at fast as yon can, for we are going to bum it
down." The unfortunate people fell on their
knees and implored to be spared, bnt the Duke
of Saxe-Meinengen called out to them, “If you
do not take yourselves off instantly yon will be
burned with the bouse.” And taking a light
from the table, be went to a window and set
fire to the curtains. All the other officers fol
lowed his example. Taking each a light in his
hand, they spread throughout the extensive
building, putting the flames to everything that
was most inflammable. Those who went to toe
upper stories barely escaped being suffocated,
toe lower floor having been half consumed in a
few momenta.
No King.
BZ ALICE CARY.
What is it that doth spoil the fair adorning
With which her body she wpnld dignify.
When from her bed ebo rises in the morning
To comb, and plait, and tie
Her hair with ribbons colored like the sky ?
What is it that her pleasures discomposes
When she would sit and sing the sun away—
Making her see dead roses in red roeea,
And in the dewfall gray
A blight that seems the world to overlay ?
What is it makeB the trembling look of trouble
About her tender mouth and eyelids fair ?
Ah me, ah me! she feels her heart beat double,
Without the mother’s prayer,
And her wild fears are more than she can bear.
To tho poor sightless lark new powers aro given,
Not only with a golden tongue to sing,
But still to make her wavering way toward heaven
With undisceraing.wing;
But what to her doth her sick sorrow bring?
Her days she turns, and yet keeps overturning,
And her flesh shrinks, as if she felt the rod;
For, ’gainst her will, she thinks hard things con
cerning
The everlasting God,
And longs to be insensate, like tbe clod.
Sweet Heaven, bo pitiful! rain down upon her
The saintly charities ordained for such—
She was so poor in everything bnt honor,
And she loved much—loved much!
Would, Lord, ebo had thy garment’s hem to touch
Haply, it was the hungry heart within her,
The woman’s heart, denied its natural right,
That made her be the thing men call a sinner,
Even in her own despite.
Lord, that hor judges might receive their sight!
[Atlantic Monthly for April.
About Hotels—A Talk With Roessle,
ofthe Arlington.
Roessle, of the Arlington, is projecting a
grand hotel for Capitol Hill, in 'Washington,
and spoke as follows to a writer for Fiatt &
Townsend’s new paper—tho “Capital
The best plan that I have ever seen for
hotel is that of the Grand in Paris, which has
a largo court-yard in tho centre, into which car
riages drive, tako np and put down ladies and
children at the door of tho elevator.
The corridors ought to be high and wide, and
toe room built in suits, five, six, eight or even
ten rooms in a set, to rent for from §250 or
§300 up^to §1,000 and even §5,000 per month.
There should bo a largo ball room, where the
hotel could give the great hops of the season
and a suite of ladies’ parlors opening into each
other, where there would be a general promo
nade after dinner.
The best architect in the country to make
hotel is the New York man who designed Union
Hall at Saratoga, which cost $650,000.
Oar hotel at Fort William Henry was planned
by Bayden, of Worcester, Massachusetts, who
is a man of bold conceptions, and with brains.
He also built Congress Hall at Saratoga. This
latter hotel cost §600.000, and was built on too
coupon-bond principle by H. H. Hathome, who
is a Methodist. He issued his bonds to toe
amount of §400,000, bearing seven per cent, in
terest, which was taken np mainly right in the
village of Saratoga; and, although there were
persons who decried the speculation as snro not
to pay, it was perfectly sure to pay from the
start; and it has paid the interest, and has gone
well along in two seasons toward repaying the
capital.
There is no place in the United States where
a really magnificent hotel would be so well ap
preciated as here, for Washington might be
called the winter watering-place of toe conti
nent, and any person acquainted with toe stu
pendous possibilities of profit in onr great inns,
freqnented as they are by people of wealth,
leisure and social public affinities, might well
wonder that this chance has not been seized by
some one.
Take, for example, the prices which we re
ceive in the Arlington, which is a small hotel,
with a capacity for no more than three hundrec l
and twenty-five persons.
Senator Cameron paid for himself and wife
§450 per month, and had bnt two rooms. Sen
ator Fenton bad a parlor, two bed-room3 and an
office, and paid §1,000 per month. Mr. S. S.
Cox and wife, paid §250 per week, and I gave
him a buffet supper, for one hundred persons,
which cost him §1,500. Mr. W. S. Huntington
gave toe Japanese too finest spread ever set in
the Arlington Hotel; there were only twenty
persons, and he paid §1,000. Dr. Helmbold
paid $96 per day, and hik bill for two-weeks
was abont $1,600. A parlor and three bed
rooms in the second story of toe Arlington, with
a small family occupying them, are worth to me
§450 per week daring the season; and one
guest here pays for a parlor, bed-room and bath
room §300 per month.
At the Delavan Honse, Albany, Dr. Gautier
used to pay §375 per week, and General Darling,
with a parlor, three bed-rooms and fonr persons,
paid $400. Onr hotel at Lake Georgohad37,
000 on toe register last season, in fonr months:
we took in, in that space of time, $294,000, and
the net profits were §56,000.
Tbe Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York rents
for $200,000 a year, including toe store beneath
it. The St. Nicholas rents for $95,000, although
it cost bnt $425,000. Mr. A. T. Stewart has
just rented to William M. Tweed the Metropoli
tan Hotel, New York, for $65,000 a year, to
sat his son, Richard Tweed, into bnsiness as a
landlord, and toe Lolands, who go out, paid
$55,000.
The Delavan House at Albany, where there
is merely a legislative meeting, is very profit
able to Charles Belaud at a rent of $55,000 a
year; and for toe little Stanwix Hall at Albany
Delavan pays $25,000. Burroughs pays for the.
Everett Hotel, New York, $35,000, although it
is small, and toe Astor House rents for $75,000,
a year.
The cheapest piece of hotel property,
soint of rent, in this country, is r- Brevoort
i louse, New York, which*Tents for 7,500, and
has three owners; it is kept on the European
plan, excepting the table d’hote, which it does
not keep np, as it has made its reputation on
the best cuisine in toe world.
I have mentioned these matters simply to
show that hotels built and oondnoted on a great
scale are amongst tbe best investments which
capitalists can make in these times.
Lost In the Wilderness.
From the New York Times, March 2ith. |
Stories of people who have been lost amid
woods and plains, or on the traoklesa sea, are
always read with interest; and although, from
their nature, there is apt to be a sameness abont
snch narratives, it does not seem to diminish
their fascination. We printed some time ago
an account of the surprising adventure of Mr.
Dormitt; a Texan, who made his solitary way
for 1,300 miles, on foot, across the continent
from the Pacifio slope to his own State. A
somewhat similar experience has befallen a
Vermonter, Mr. T. O. Everts, whose escape
from starvation in a more northerly wilderness
has jnst now furnished a theme for amazement
and sympathy.
Late in toe year 1870, an exploring party, of
whom Mr, Evarts was one, set forth from Hele
na, in Montana, to penetrate into the wild re
gions about the sources of toe Snake and Yel
lowstone rivers. The oonntry into which the
little band made its way is very high—folly
some eight thousand feet above toe level of
the sea. It is said that it was never before vis
ited by a white man; and a hazardous state
ment, often made, bnt probable in this instanoe,
since the territory is so remote from the vari-
rious well-known tracts of the earlier pioneers;
while of late explorations there are no accounts.
There are no Indians there, for some not obvi
ous reason, since there is plenty of timber and
not a little game. In some spots there are hot
springs, and to these are attributed wonderful
medicinal virtues which, ere long, will be thor
oughly tested. The obscure wilds around toe
upper waters of toe rivers named are crowded
with fallen timber, making travel exceedingly
hard, whether on foot or in the saddle. The
party were well mounted, however, and their
object being rather to discover what was worth
seeing than to get rapidly over the ground, their
progress was not unsatisfactory.
One day the whole company scattered in pur
suit of game. Mr. Evarts detached himself, as
often before, from toe rest, and nothing fearing,
ilungod in the woods. He was tempted, it seems,
iy a deer’s trail, and he kept on following it an
ti!, to his uneasiness, he saw. toe sun’s rays
slanting through the trees low down in toe west
Finally, the orb dropped below the horizon, and
night came on in pitchy darkness. The wander
er camped out as best he oould, hoping to re-
trace his steps and join his friends next day.
In themorainghe committed the error of starting
too early. He could not oleariy see his trail, and
on this it was needful to return. Alighting from
his horse to make sure of it for a moment
Evarts incautiously let go toe bridle. Unhap
pily, an instant after, the animal took fright at
something and plunged wildly away. This was
a dismal calamity inded, for, attached to toe
saddle were the hunter’s carbine, his pistols,
ammunition, matches—in a word, his entire
equipment save the clothes in which he stood.
Still, he did not despair. He thought his friends
would surely return and look him np. It ap
pears, however, that‘his friends, considering
that he was well mounted, supposed he would
certainly push on and overtake them. In faot,
they travelled forward two days’journey after
missing Evarts before they paused to wait or
make search for him. Thus ho was literally
alone in toe wilderness; and to complete his
discomfiture, on toe second day after he lost his
horse two feet of snow fell.
Progress through this he found to be impos
sible, andit really seemed that the solitary man
mnst die in his tracks. Kindly nature, never
theless, had in reserve a provision for his safety.
Mr. Evarts, amid toe supreme horror of his sit
uation, had given himself np in despair. Bnt
suddenly it flashed across his mind that five or
six miles from tho spot where ho separated from
his party he had passed some hot springs. To
these he determined to fight his way through
the snow, and he succeeded in doing it. On the
warm ground close by the springs he managed
to exist, sleeping there at night until tho snow-
passed away. He was safe from perishing of
cold, but it appeared inevitable that he must die
of starvation. Plenty of elk bounded through
toe woods, and abundant fish were in the
streams; but Evarts was totally without tho
means of capturing cither. -Fortunately ho
chanced to find a sort of thistle root that grows
plentifully near the springs. On this root, sod-
dsn in the hot water, he supported life. The
snow disappeared, and he resolved to make a
fresh effort to escape. Bat toe weather was at
nights fearfully cold, and he dared not leave
the springs without the means of making fire.
He had with him—it was about toe only article
not carried off by the horse—a small field glass.
It occurred to bis mind to try to use the lenses
as a burning glass. This, too, succeeded. Yet
there was danger of being without tho help of
the sun on occasions when it was most required.
Therefore, after setting out from the springs,
Evarts, on cloudy days, always carried brands
from one stopping place to another. Two
nights, despite all precautions, he bad to spend
without fire, and on these he kept alive only by
unremitting motion and constant friction of hi3
stiffening limbs. For thirty-seven days, save
the roots, he had no food except one small bird
and two or three tiny fish; and, with much
wandering, his boots were destroyed, and his
feet became worn to the bone.
On the thirty-eighth day Evarts was saved.
He suddenly came upon a party who were
searohing for his body—for they had not too
least hope of finding him alive—and who were
asmnoh astonished as delighted by his rescue.
He was, to be sure, reduced to a mere shadow.
His former weight was one hundred and sixty
pounds; it was now eighty. No permanent
harm was done him, notwithstanding, by his
wild adventure; and we are glad to know that
he is a strong and healthy man to-day. This
tale of being lost in the wilderness differs from
that of Dormitt in many respects, and especially
as regards the pfodigioos distance traveled,
which made toe exploit of the Texan so aston
ishing; bnt Mr. Evart’s experience is not less
worthy of note on the score of his miraculous
preservation under circumstances that seemed
certain to be fatal.
Courting Under DlfllCHlties.
An Havana correspondent of the Herald says
he made his outward trip in company with a
bevy of Caban beauties, who were very merry
in fine weather, but their mi^th gave plaoe to
expressions of grief over tbe social slavery
which awaited them at home. The correspon
dent says:
Cuban ladies never walk, so that it is not to
be wondered at thatSenorita Jnlia sang ‘.‘Walk
ing Down Broadway” with a sigh. Cnban ladies
are not permitted to ride out alone, and if no
better escort can be found a little nigger is
wise enough to guard them from consequences
against which womanly modesty is the snrest
protection and manly faith the best defence.
As I ride along toe Cerro (the Fifth avenve of
Havana,) these delightful evenings, I see within
toe splendid residences which line that splendid
thoroughfare, many beantiful women, and I
have not failed to observe that the youngest and
most beantifnl are always nearest to the bars.
But the bars are inexorable to the beaux as well
as toe belles. Glass windows are not needed
in the houses of a country where toe air in win
ter is freighted with supernal mildness, and in
summer laden with tropical heat. The bars
whioh are placed over every window in the
houses of toe rioh are accordingly necessary to
prevent intrusion, and they become the wires
to toe cages of the imprisoned birds.
This imprisonment is literal, not fanciful.
Only an accepted lover may enter the honse of
his sweetheart, bnt she is not allowed to go oat
with him or even to be a moment alone with
him. At the opera he may stand all the even
ing at the door of her box, drinking in her
beauty with his eyes, bnt he cannot accompany
her home at the close of the play, or, as is too
often the case in New York, ask her to Delmon-
ico’s for champagne and an ice. If he is not
an accepted lover, if he is only beginning to do
what New England has christened easting sheep
glances, or has been proscribed by her parents,
the outside of toe bars is bis only resource.
The other day I was walking along one of the
best streets of the city—a very inelegant occu
pation, I confess—when my attention was ar
rested by seeing a yonng girl at the window of
a splendid dwelling looking tenderly at a yonng
man who was kneeling close to the house and
beseeching her with toe most importune looks
a lover conld assume. Neither Bpoke a word,
but they looked and looked into one another’s
eyes, she easting furtive glances at her mother,
who was at some distance, and he keeping out
of the range of the motherly vision. The scene
was supremely ludicrous, and it seemed to me
to be a method of courting almost as disreput
able as flirting with the handkerchief.
Income Tax Returns.
By the internal revenue law, as amended in
1870, it is made the duty of citizens whose gross
income last year exceeded $2,000, to render to
toe Assistant Assessor of the division in whioh
he lives a return of his income at once. Neg
lect leaves it in the power of toe Assessor to
make a return for him, and to increase the
amount of the tax fifty per cent, aa a penalty
for neglect Ftach person is required to make a
return of all moneys held jn trust, as well as
those enjoyed aa private property. The taxable
income of eaeh person is determined by adding
together the following items: Gains or profits
of business for year; wages or salary reoeived
for services from any government, corporation
or other employer; rents received from houses
or lands; interest on notes, bonds or mortgages,
or on money lent on any or on no security; pro
fits of speculation in stocks, bonds or gold, and
those obtained upon toe sale of houses or lands
whioh had been purchased within two years pre
ceding; and ‘dividends upon stocks or shares,
except dividends of corporations whioh have
themselves withheld toe tax from stockholders
and paid it to the United States, are not to be
included, nor that part of toe salaiy of United
States officers from which toe tax has been
deducted at tbe time of payment, nor any
pension paid to a soldier or a sailor. From toe
aggregate income as thus determined, each
tax-payer will deduot the national, State,
county and municipal taxes paitf daring toe
year; all losses in business, not including any
estimated depreciation of values; amount of
interest paid during the year; rent of land for
cultivation and of premises for bnsiness pur
poses, and wages of labor paid oat for bnsiness
purposes; rent of the bouse and rooms occupied
as a residence; bnt not the rental value, if
owned by tax payer himself; the amount paid
for ordinary repairs, bnt not for permanent im
provements. The remainder of toe gross in
come after these deductions are made consti
tutes the net income for the year; and two
thousand dollars are further to he deducted
from this amount. The remainder Is toe tax
able Inoome. on whioh a tax of two and a half
per cent is levied. This tax is due on or be-
l ore April 30th, and a penalty of 6 per cent up
on the amount and of interest at toe rate of 1
per cent per month, is to be levied for neglect
to make payment at that time, or within 10
days after the collector shall have demanded
toe tax. Returns of inoome this year are not
to be published; and the officers administering
the law are required to keep them seoret. Nor
is any penalty to be levied for neglect or error
on the tax-payer’s part, except after a full op
portunity is afforded him to be heard, and to
present evidenoe that he is not guilty. of such
neglect or error.—Constitutionalist
Decisions or the Supreme Conn or
Georgia.
DELIVERED AT ATLANTA, TUESDAY, LIAR. 28, 1871.
From toe Atlanta Constitution.]
Campbell Wallace, Superintendent Western
and Atlantic Railroad vs. John W. Cason.
Lochbane, C. J.—Where, upon the trial of a
oase, the presiding judge wanted anon-suit,
stating at toe time he was not satisfied with the
argument of toe legal question upon which such
non-snit was awarded, and wonld grant leavs to
move to reinstate the case, .on toe argument of
which motion he would decide the question, and
the counsel for defendant entered the judgment
of non-snit on the minutes, and plaintiff’s conn-
sel drew np the motion to reinstate, reciting
therein suoh leave granted as aforesaid, upon
which motion the defendant’s attorney acknowl
edged service, and the motion was pnt on the
docket at the same term, there being no entiy
of it filed by toe clerk thereon or brief of evi
dence filed:
Held, That it was not error in the conrt to
hear the motion to reinstate, as it stood upon
the docket, and that the motion to reinstate,
under the faots of the case, differed from a mo
tion for a new trial, and did not require the
formalities or requirements of such motion.
When, under toe facts just recited, and on
tho hearing of snob motion, counsel moved to
amend th9 minutes of the conrt, so as to make
them conform to the leave granted to move to
reinstate, and the fact being undisputed, as well
as sustained, by toe testimony of the presiding
judge:
Held, That it was not error in tho conrt be
low to' allow tho amendment nunc pro tunc, un
der the established principles of.law, embodied
in the Code, sections 294 and 3449.
Held, again, Where the Conrt, in an action
for damages brought against a railroad for kill
ing stock, when the sum sued for was over the
jnstice’s jurisdiction, and the snit was instituted
in too comity of defendant’s oesidence, and not
under the section 4988 of the Code, and tho
conrt granted a non-snit on account of the ab
sence of proof of tho notice required by such
section of the Code, that such decision was
error, as the Superior Courts of this State have
original and general jurisdiction in snch cases,
and the special remedy given by the Code is
cumulative merely, and it was proper in the
conrt below to reinstate tho case on the deter
mination of this legal question.
Mynatt & Dell, for plaintiff.
Hillyer & Bro., for defendant.
- Judgment affirmed.
Macon and Western Railroad vs. J. Baber.
Lochbane, O. J.—Where,in an action brought
under toe provisions of seotion 2983 of the
Code, for stock killed, the notice required was
served personally by toe plaintiff, who attached
his affidavit of such servioe thereto:
Held, That such affidavit was sufficient evi
dence of such service, and not being traversed,
it was not necessary to have produced the wit
ness on the stand to prove the same.
Held again, When the defendant’s counsel
requested the judge to charge tho jury, “That
Mr. B. turning out the cow in the vicinity of the
railroad just before toe ooming of toe train was
negligence and carelessness to be considered by
toe jury, find that when said cow got upon the
track it made B. a trespasser,” which the judge
refused, but charged the jury, “That if it were
shown that plaintiff’s cow was injnred by toe
defendant’s servants, the law presumes negli
gence on their part and they must explain it,
and the fact that Mr. B. tamed out the cow in
the vicinity of the railroad before the train
came was no evidence of carelessness to be con
sidered by the jury, and it was not true that if
said cow so turned out got upon the track it
made plaintiff a trespasser, unless it was en
closed by a lawful fence, that snch refusal to
charge given by toe court was not error, under
toe faots of the case for the fact of contributors
negligence cannot be presumed against the
owner of such cattle as ordinarily, are turned
out, by turning sneh animals out, and toe act of
then going upon an unenclosed railroad track
did not constitute him a trespasser.
Judgment affirmed.
A. W. Hammond & Son, for plaintiff.
Tidwell, Fears & Arnold, for defendant.
Campbell Wallace, Superintendent, vs. J. W.
Clayton & Co. New trial, from Foltoh.
MoCay, J.—1. An unusual and extraordinary
flood in a river is snch an act .of God as excuses
a common carrier from his liability at all events,
for goods he has undertaken to transport; bnt
even in such a case, the carrier is bound to ex
ercise toe care of a very prudent man to pre
serve tho freight entrusted to him for carriage.
2. Diligence, and the want of it, are questions
of fact, to be determined by the jury, under the
evidence, and the charge of the Conrt, and a
new trial ought not to be granted by tbe Gixcuit
Judge, unless toe jury find strongly and decided
ly against the weight of testimony.
8. In this oase toe verdiot is not qtrongly and
decidedly against the weight of testimony, and
as the ease was fairly submitted to the jury, un
der toe charge of Court, it was error in the
Judge to grant a new triaL
Judgment reversed.
P. L. Mynatt, L. E. Bleckley, for plaintiff.
J. D. Pope, R. £L Clark, for defendant.
the Central Bank, 6thGeor fi i a
court held that it was not a valfaTf’^
indorser, that toe maker of ihi
discharged under the projfafo 8 ® ot *
rapt law of 1842. P ™ 10ns of
. [Loohrane, Chief Justice, con,„
judgment, but not entirely is
lanta.
Wabneb, J.—When the ulainn*
verdict against the defendSV
mnety-mne dollars and fortv-fiv« tht *|
judgment was entered thereon by '
attorney, leaving the amount of
recovered in blank to be taxed bVo
afterwards the plaintiff and def<£? a 'HJ
settle tho judgment under the folwl
stances: “It is agreed between*** 1
plaintiff and defendant, thatdefms^ 51 ^!
to settle tho above stated case if or 1 ' 4 **:
has to pay the costs of plaintiff
defendant wonld sottlo if plaintiff
the judgment in said case as
of the defendant one hundred and to
foil of the within judgment, that
was given as demanded by thin.;* ' ,
principal and interest paid in fn!)
costs having been previously naia a ®il
time plaintiff’s counsel refusedto
plaintiff should be liable for anve^t 8 * 6 4
ant’s counsel stating that he wonM
ceipt as above described. Afterward- ^
was made by the plaintiff to enter?-*! 51
nunc pro tunc for the use of his ?;- ^-~i
the cost dne fhem, which motion*:.
by the Conrt, whereupon the pla'ctiff^^
Held, That it was the rightoffi,^
have had all toe legal costs das in
eluding the costs of plaintiff’s yi.-n, ®
by the clerk and inserted in thebw/H
the judgment for that purpose, ana Im.
ceeded to collect the principal
cost, by duo process of law, but £2* **
tbe plaintiff agreed to settle the ks!? 4 ‘
the terms proposed by the defendant. ia *1
knowledge of all the facts, and
in full of the within judgment, that
no error in the refusal of tho conrt to
motion to enter a judgment nunc
against the defendant for the costa* j
plaintiff’s witnesses. ' 581
Judgment affirmed.
T. P. Westmoreland, Hill ana Can?.,.
plaintiff. “^1*
W. T. Newman, City Attorney, fora E f ec
Tire Next Crop.
The prevailing opinions as to the extentcia,
planting for the next crop appear to t»r2
diverse. Tha New Orleans Price Cartr.
instance, in its issue of March 18 stau-’-i 1
“low prices cannot stop cotton i-~lm 1
they will possibly increase it." The '-viP
“ will plant for crop enough to bo»
muchincome at six cents a pound asharsc&i
for cotton at 12 cents.” On? the other Sj
correspondent in the same paper, ia
of Mississippi, says that the sitaaUosV*
State is peculiar. “1. The cotton cropbuh
creased abont thirty per cent; 2. The fe
cannot collect their advances; 3. The-v,
are unable to command supplies; 4. xtel
borers are, in many instances, without fx£|
The information this correspondent girej oiil
confirms what we are now receiving froia i|
vers other sections of the South. Nov, it s! ”
ns that this condition of things, if e
stated, is incompatible with the idea of a
planting equal to the last. For if anincieMedj
the crop this year 30 per cent, with a decs
on the plantation to 11 cents, results in i
great a loss that the “factor is unable to co3s
his advances,” while the credit of the planu
wholly used np, so that he cannot era
mand food for Iris laborers, how much betUil
wonld the planter be if he were toraiseak-jj
crop and sell it at “six cents per pound,’ 7
proposed by the first writer. Tins i3 the cs]
tion that mnst present itself to the Soci
farmer, and if he has toe wisdom we giveh
credit for, he will (unless he can hire hishbc^
at lower rates) torn his chief attention to b
tening hogs, and raising com and wheat tea
isfy toe hanger of those empty stomachs. Yl
have not as yet any definite information wl
regard to toe extent of cotton cultiiatioii. f.-sJ
the above facts, however, one wonld nsbiiJ
conclnde that the planter will h&Te no ded.nl
produce a large crop, or if he have the dwj
that he will find it difficult to obtain the«
sary funds. Whether this conclusion *i!lp
to be correct, we dare not undertake to ■
Only one thing is as yet assured, tad t!
is, as \re stated two weeks ago, very teach !<
money will be spent for fertllizera-F
Chronicle.
It is reported that the Joint High Commis
sion is progressing slowly bnt sorely in their
important business, arid that before Very many
weeks its labors will result in en equitable set
tlement of the whole difficulty.
The Wilmington (N. O.) Journal corrects its
statement that Senator elect Vanoe has resigned,
and announces that he still clings to toe faint
hope of admission to the Senate.
William R. Phillips vs. W. J. Morrison and
William Solomon.. Assumpsit, from Fulton.
McCay J.—Seotion 2121 of toe Revised Code
of this State, providing that “ the obligation of
the surety is accessory to that of his principal,
and if the latter from any cause becomes ex
empt, toe former ceases of course,” is an af
firmance only of toe common law, and by the
words “from any cause” is meant any cause
dependent on the act or negligence of the cred
itor, and not snch a cause as the discharge of ers '
principal under the bankrupt law, which is be
yond toe control of the creditor and by force of
toe laws of the land.
Hammond & Welborn, P. L. Mynatt for
plaintiff.
A. W. Hammond & Son, L. J. Gortrell, Geo.
N. Lester, for defendants.
Wabneb, J., concurring.—This was an action
brought by toe plaintiff against toe defendants
promissory note, dated 22d May, 1866,
Die to the plaintiff six months after date,
i Solomon, one of the defendants, plead that he
signed the note as security; that Morrison, the
principal debtor, had been discharged as a bank
rupt from the payment of toe debt, under the
provisions of the bankrupt law of Congress,
passed the 2d of March, 1866. The plaintiff
demurred to ]he defendant’s plea, whioh was over
ruled by the court- and the plaintiff exoepted.
The sole question for onr decision and judgment
in this ca8e, is whether the discharge of toe
principal debtor, under toe provisions of toe
bankrupt law of Congress also discharges the
security to the note. By the 8th seotion of the
1st article to toe Constitution of the United
States, Congress has toe power to establish uni
form laws on the subject of bankruptcies
throughout the United States. The 11th article
of the ConstUntion of 1868 of this State, de
clares as the supreme lata, toe Constitution of
the United States, and the laws of the United
States, in pursuance thereof. The 33d seotion
of toe barikrapt law of toe United States de
clares that no discharge granted to the bank-
rapt under that law “shall release, discharge,
or affeot any person liable for toe same debt,
for or with toe bankrupt, either as partner, joint
oontraotor, indorser, surety, or otherwise.”
Morrison, toe principal debtor, has been dis
charged from toe payment of toe debt under toe
provisions of this bankrupt law, whioh under
toe Constitution, is to have a uniform operation
throughout the United States, and Solomon, the
surety, claims to be discharged from toe pay.
ment of that debt because toe principal debtor
has been discharged, notwithstanding, that
same bankrupt law which discharged toe prin
cipal debtor, expressly declares that no dis
charge granted to toe principal debtor shall
release, discharge or affect any person liable
for the same debt, for or with the principal
bankrupt debtor, either as partner, joint oon
traotor, indorser, surety, or otherwise. Bnt it
is said the 2121st section of’the Code of this
State declares, “That toe obligation of toe
Bnrety is accessory to that of his principal, and
if toe later from' any cause beoomes extinct, the
former ceases, of course, even though it be in
judgment,” and that the parties contracted in
view of this local law of tbe State. This gene
ral declaration of the Code does nothing more
than to announce the general law applicable to
principal, and surety, and does not include that
class of oases where the principal debtor is dis
charged by operation of lata, the more especially
when that law whioh discharges toe principal
debtor expressly declares that it shall not
operate to discharge the surety. But, if the
State law had expressly declared that the dis
charge of toe principal debtor in bankruptcy
ehomd have the effect to discharge toe surety,
the State law upon that subject being in conflict
with the general bankrupt law of the United
States, the former must yield to the latter as
the paramount law of toe land, it being a law
in purauanoe of the Constitution of the United
States to establish a uniform law of bankruptcy
throughout toe same, andit cannot operate uni
formly throughout the United States, it the
surety of the principal bankrupt debtor can be
released and discharged in Georgia, and held
liable for the debt in New York, or in any other
of toe United States. In the case of King vs.
The San Domingo Business.
New Yobx, March 28.—The-Tribnne's'ht
ington special says a rumor is current ti
the Administration has decided to drops
Santo Domingo business for the .sake o! h
monizingtoe Republican party. To afril
reason for the change of policy, the repor:]
the Commissioners will conclude with a re»|
mendation that nothing farther be done toni|
annexation at present, on account of the e.I
war on a large portion of the island. Andel
Washington correspondent telegraphs: ItaeesI
to be the general opinion of the Gommissasl
that annexation oannot take place withorial
volving the United States in war with Hip I
Baez admitted to toe Commissioners oset&l
sand square miles of territory belonging tow I
minican Republic, lying contiguous to Eri I
was under the control of Cabral and hisb>|
Baez didn’t make any effort to alb’® I
Commissioners to meet Cabral, but, on the £-1
trary, assured them he could not afford is I
any protection if they visited that part of ® I
island Cabral controlled. All speak in the bp-1
est terms of toe island, its climate and predafr I
tions, but appear to entertain a very poor e®-1
ion of toe people, who are described I
superstitions and exceedingly undesirable.*|
their present condition, as an ad”‘
population of toe United States.
THE INCOME TAX
It is well known that Congress, in *^*^1
on the inoome tax, attempted, in its I
to abolish its inquisitorial features. Son*® I
prise was, therefore, manifested when to* I
sessors appeared with a blank, on whico^l
were a series of questions which entered is» I
detail of one’s business compelling bun I
what interest he had in stocks, bonoa I
The attention of the Commissioner having I
called to this, he issued an order to-«y I
that written answers need not be made » |
questions.—Western Press Dispatches.
Young America at the Whxkl.”
-A
known clergyman was crossing I
years ago upon one of the lake
seeing a small lad at the wheel steering th«
eel, accosted him as follows: “Ml •*>
pear to be a small boy to steer so larg I
“Yes, sir,” was the reply; ,“? n i* 0 „ a dersiD!I
do it, though.” “Do y? air°I think I
your business, my son r <.#1
“Canyon box the compass? res, •
me hear you box it.” The boy I
quested, when the minister said: ,
yon can do it! Can you box »
“Yea, sir." “Let me hear you. j
again as requested, when the mimsi®
ed: “I declare, my son! youdose e , j
stand your business.” The boy tn 11
turn at qnestion-asking,beginning- ,& I
what might be your busainees t - jc* I
i8ter of the Gospel.” “Do you unaea ^ I
business ?” “I think I do, n^son- jy I
say the Lord’s prayer?” “Yes.
clergyman did so, repeating the wo I
fervent manner, as though trying „ !
impression on the lad. _ “Well, re T^’v J1 ot \ I
boy, upon its oonolnsion, “you -o ,^:il
don't yon? Now say it backward,
can’t do snch a thing as that, of
a thing as that, oi
“You can’t do it, ehr returned the wj.
then, yon see I understand my huaio _ £
deal better than you do yours.
man acknowledged himself beaten, ft**
Mayor’s Court.—The facinatioc 3 1
clustered around this tribunal, no ^ I
those who were wont to assemble ^ J
from present indications we fear ^ bf I
something aopn occurs to P reyen ^L ” P j
numbered “among the things that
one case appeared upon the dook ®X, s j#' j
morning, and it was bo fully shrouded |
ry as to cause a very serious doubt m
of the presiding officer aa to who
party really waa. We took occasion
with the court on the quiet existing.^
Ocmulgee, and be shook his ‘ S 01 ? jjat®
and ia toe most pitiful tone decl *^I d tok* i
his opinion, this metropolis was <- -tht&'l
strictly virtuous life for, and during ^.1
six months. We united with the co^^l
pressing a hope that suoh might be w ^
bade adieu to the French polish as *» ,
from the hall to enoounter an ocean