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(MJ ,hL-u.- jjSBY, JONES & REESE, Proprietors. Established 1S26. ^rgla Telegrapli Building, Macon t graph ana Messenger, one year §10 00 ZSSZ: .^A^ekly Telegrapli and Messenger, [DU- rear. A^NJD GEORGIA JOTTRlNrAX. &d MESSENGER. The Family Journal.—News—Politics—Literature—Agriculture—Domestic Affairs. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING MACON. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1871. Volume IjXV—m. 12 4 00 2 00 3 00 1 50 k^thWeeUy Telegraph and Messen- r,G columns, 1 year iihU°Swavs in advance, and paper si the money runs ont, unless renc- * T\-' iBSiXGEHEXTS WITH J. W. BUEKE & ■ rEBl ‘ C0.’s PUBLICATIONS. I&il v Telegraph*Messenger andFann^^ ^ •«uJ l0 T^le^P ; j Messenger and r«ri and Home 4 00 * cvfetian Advocate with Weekly 5 Oo •.*& 400 ■ r5 ri the Boiton Commercial Bulletin.1 The Missing Link. [e roamed the forest tree, _ (Vith a prond nntrammolied air, [e bnilt a nest on the palm tree s crest, And dwelt a master there, be monarch of all the earth, The lord of wood and plain, he lion fled when his angry tread Shook tho earth with proud disdain. [e diced on elephant, did This cy-no-ceph-a-lus, nd rhinoceros, and the nver horse, And the bip-po-pot-a-mns. [rawny of limb was be, Vet supple and agile, in rock or tree his arms were free, For his toes were prehensile. et doth the monarch sigh As ho paces up and down, r'd soliloquize with downcast eyes And a highly regal frown. lid is the royal heart, Woanded the royal pride, or the lords of state say the king shall mate With a JiMego Mbouve bride. 'Whatmarry a subject! I E«poase a chimpanzee! [o. I m not a Guelph if I know myself, So mesalliance for me! 'ensh my royal blood, Perish the princely line, Ire I desecrate, with a vulgar mate, This linengo of mine.” he monarch paused, transfixed, Vanished his growing wrath, ®1 bright snrprise beamed in bis eyes As ho gazed down the forest path, vision of beauty, such As by Simian eye, before, Ltd never been seen in the woodland green, Or been known to Simian lore. i maiden young and fair As the charcoal’s ebon tint, Vith teeth as white a3 cowries bright From tho Royal Congo mint, hr locks of a crispy cnrl, Her foot of a mammoth size, llmado her seem a bewitching dream To the fond gorilla’s eyes. a high o’erarching limb He swung by his sinewy arms, nd dangling there, ’twixt earth and air, Gazed on her dusty charms. N’ow, by my kingly troth, This maid shall be, I think, [y royal bride, and supply beside Air. Darwin’s missing link.” ,e thoughtless ebon maid, Saspicionless of guile, 'o the trunk strayed, and beneath its shade, Tarried in thought awhile. 'hen tho monarch spake his love As he swung by the lofty limb; Ie wac gifted, they say, with a taking away, For the lady smiled on him. ie pats her curly locks, With his great prehensile toes at wined in her wool—a vigorous pull— A shriek—and up she goes 2 has was the monarch wed, And thus the race began, (hence through various links, somewhat strange, methink9, Came the ‘’Descent of Man!” HIGGLES. BY BBET HAUTE. We were eight, including the driver. We had it spoken during the passage of the last six “lies, since the jolting of the heavy vehicle over roughening road had spoiled the Judge’s poetical quotation. The tall man beside Jsdge was asleep, his arm passed through te swaying strap, his head resting upon it,— tether a limp, helpless-looking object, as if had hanged himself and been ent down too tie. The Froneh lady on the back seat was ^p, too, yet in a half-conscious propriety of ttiisde, shown even in the disposition of tho iadkerchief which she held io her forehead which partially veiled her face. Tho lady ran Virginia City, traveling with her husband, id long since lost all individnaHty in a wild itfaion of ribbons, veils, furs, aud shawls. k«e was no sonnd but the rattling of wheels 'd the dash of rain upon tho roof. Suddenly -stage stopped and we became dimly aware t voices. The driver was evidently in tho midst 4 *Q exciting colloquy with some one in tho ’£d—a colloquy of which such fragments as uridga gone,” “twenty feet of water,” “can’t la -'' were occasionally distinguishable above •6 storm. Then came a lull, and a mysterious from tho road scouted the parting adjura- Jy Higgles." »c caught a glimpse of our leaders os the Hole slowly turned, of a horseman vanishing Plough the rain, and we were evidently on our ■*? to Miggles’s. " ho and where wa3 Higgles ? The Judge, tr authority, did not remember the name, and e knew the country thoroughly. The Washoe jweller thought Higgles must keep a hotel. '* only knew that wo were stopped by high Jter in front and rear, and that Miggles was tu rock of refnge. A ten minutes’ splashing “ough a tangled by-road, scarcely wide enough w the stage, and we drew up before a barred *o bearded gate in a wide stone waU or fence ^ut eight feet high. Evidently Miggles’s, •^oviflently Miggles did not keep a hotel fte driver got down and tried the gate. It ^securely locked. H'ggle! O, Miggles!” answer. oligg-ells! Yon Miggles!” continued the with rising wrath. wgglesy!’’ joined in the expressman, per- “*iTely. “OMiggy! Mig!” joot no reply came from tho apparently in- raate Higgles. Tho Judge, who had finally •(the window down, put his head outandpro- J’ttaed a series of questions, which, if an- ‘«Wd categorically, would have undoubtedly pasted the whole mystery, but which the •rcr ovaded by replying that “if we didn’t !. to s *t >u tho coach ail night, wehaabetter op and sing ont for Miggles.” -7° we rose up and called on Miggles in cho- , • then separately. And when ho had fin- y .; u > * Hibernian feUow-passenger from tho 4 for “Maygella!” whereat we all ^Vkilo we were laughing the driver ^‘‘Skoo!” . ® listened; to onr infinite amazement the jJds of “MiggleR” was repeated from the of the wall, even to the final and sup- “Maygella." opfjttordinary echo,” said the Judge. ,“itraordinarily d—d skunk!" roared the i *. r oontemptuously. “Como out of that, ‘wes, and show yourself! Beaman, Mig- 5 ' Don’t hide in the dark; I wouldn’t if I J°Wj Miggles,” continued Yaba Bill, now about in an excess of fary. •“SgWBl" continued the voioe, “0 Miggles ?” “My good man! Mr. Myghail!” said the Judge, softening the asperities of the name as much as possible. “Consider the inhospitality of refusing shelter from the inclemency of the weather to helpless females. ReaUy, my dear sir—” But a succession of “Miggles,” ending in abnrst of laughter drowned his voice. Yuba Bill hesitated no longer. Taking aheavy stone from tho road, he battered down the gate, and with the expressman entered the enclosure. We followed. Nobody was to be seen. In the gathering darkness alHhat wo could distinguish was that wo were in a garden—from the rose bushes that scattered over us a minute spray from their dripping leaves—and before a long, rambling wooden building. Do yon know this Miggles?" asked the Judge of Yuba Bill. “No, nor don’t want to,” said BiU, shortly, who felt the Pioneer Stage Company insulted in his person by tho contumacious Miggles. “Bnt, my dear sir,” expostulated the Judge, as be thought of the barred gate. ‘ ‘Lookee here,” said Yuba Bill, with fine irony, ‘hadn’t yon better go back and sit in the coach tillyer introduced? I’m going in." And he pushed open the door of the building. A long room, lighted only by the embers of a fire that was dying on the large hearth at its further extremity; the walls curiously papered, and the flickering firelight bringing out its gro tesque pattern; somebody sitting in the large arm-chair by the fireplace. All this we saw as we crowded together into the room, after the driver and expressman. “HeUo, be you Miggles?” said Ynba BiU to tho solitary occupant. The figure neither spoke nor stirred. Ynba Bill walked wrathfully toward it, and turned the coach-lantern upon its face. It was a man’s face, prematurely old and wrinkled, with very large eyes, in which there was that expression of perfectly gratuitous solemnity which I had sometimes seen in tho owl’s. The large eyes wandered from Bill’s to the lantern, and finaUy fixed their gaze on that luminous object, with out further recognition. Bill restrained himself with an effort. “Miggles! Be yon deaf? Yon ain’t dumb anyhow, you knowand Yuba Bill shook the insensate figure by the shoulder. To our great dismay, as BiU removed his hand, the venerable stranger apparently col lapsed—sinking into half his size and an undis- tinguishable heap of clothing. “Well, dem my skin,” said BiU, looking ap pealingly at ns, and hopelessly retiring from the contest. The Jadge now stepped forward, and we lifted the mysterious invertebrate back into his original position. BiU was dismissed with the lantern to reconnoitre outside, for it was evi dent that from the helplessness of this solitary man there most be attendants near at hand, and we aU drew around the fire. The Judge, who had regained his authority, and had never lost his conversational amiabUity—standing before ns with his back to the hearth—charged us, as an imaginary jury, as foUowa:— “It is evident that either our distinguished friend here has reached that condition de scribed by Shakespeare as the ‘sere and yeUow leaf,’ or has suffered some premature abatement of the mental and physical faculties. Whether he is reaUy the Miggles—” Here he was interrupted by “Miggles! O Miggles! Migglesy! Mig!” and, in fact, the whole chores of Migglc-s in very much the same key as it had once before bean delivered unto ns? We gazed at each other for a moment in some alarm. The Judge, in particular, vacated his position quickly, as tho voice seemed to come directly over his shoulder. The cause, however, was soon discovered in a large magpie, who was perched npon a shelf over the fireplace, and who immediately relapsed into a sepulchral silence, which contrasted singularly with his previous volubiUty. It was, undoubtedly, his voice which he had heard in the rood, and our friend in the chair was not responsible for the discourtesy. Yuba BiU, who re-entered the room after an unsuccessful search, was loath to accept the explanation, and stiU eyed the help less sitter with suspicion. He had found a shed n which he had put up his horses, bat he came back dripping and sceptical “Thar ain’t no body but him within ten mile of the shanty, and that ’ar d—d old skeesioks knows it.” But the faith of tho majority proved to be se curely based. BiU had scarcely ceased growl ing before we heard a quick step upon tho porch, the trailing of a wet skirt, the door was flung open, and with a flash of white teeth, a sparkle of daTk eyes, and an utter absence of ceremony or diffidence, a young woman entered, shut tho door, and, panting, leaned back against it. * O, if you please, I’m Miggles! And this was Miggles! this bright-eyed, full- throated young woman, whoso wet gown of coarse bine stuff could not hide tho beauty of the feminine curves to which it clung; from the chestnut crown of whose head, topped by a man’s oil-skin sou’wester, to the Uttle feet and ankles, hidden somewhere in tho recesses of her boy'8 brogans, all was grace; thi3 was Miggles, laughing at us, too, in the most airy, frank, off hand manner imaginable. ‘You see, boyB,’ said she, quite out of breath, and holding one little hand against her side, quite unheeding the speechless discomfiture of our party, or the complete demoraUzation of Yuba Bill, whose features had relaxed into an expression of gratuitous and imbecile cheerful ness—‘you see, boys, I was more’n two miles away when you passed down the road. I thought you might pull up here, and so I ran the whole way, knowing nobody wa3 at home bnt Jim—and —and—I’m ont of breath—and—that lets me cut.’ And here Miggles caught her dripping oilskin hat from her head, with a mischievous swirl that scattered a shower of rain-drops over us; at tempted to put back her hair; dropped two hair pin3 in the attempt; laughed and set down be side Yuba Bill, with her hands crossed lightly in her lap. The Jndge recovered himself first, and essayed an extravagant compUment. ‘I’ll trouble you for that thar har-pia,’ said Miggles, gravely. Half o dovon hands were eagerly stretched forward; tho missing hair-pin was restored to its fair owner; and Miggles, crossing the room, looked keenly in the face of the invaUd. The solemn eyes looked back at hers with an expression we had never seen be fore. Life and intelligence seemed to struggle back into the rugged face. Miggles laughed again—it wa3 a singularly eloquent laugh—and turned her black eyes and white teeth onee more toward ns# “This afflicted person is —’ hesitated the Judge. “Jim,” said Miggles. “Your father?” “No.” “Brother ?” “No.”- “Husband?’ Miggles darted a quick, half-defiant glance at the two ladv passengers, who, I had noticed, did not participate in the general masculine ad miration of Higgles, and said, gravely, “No, it t Jim.” There was an awkward pause. Tho lady pas sengers moved closer to each other; the Washoe husband looked pbstractedly at the fire; ana the tall man apparently turned his eyes inward for self support at this emergency. But Hig gles’ laugh, which was very infectious, broke tho eUcnce. “Come," she said, briskly, “you must bo hungry. Who’ll bear a hand to help me get tea?” . . _ She had no lack of volunteers. In a few mo ments Yuba BUI was engaged like Caliban in bearinglog3for his Miranda; the expressman was Grinding coffee on the verandah; to myself the arduoas duty of slicing bacon was assigned; and tho Judge lent each man hi3 good-humored and voluble counsel. And when Higgles, as sisted by the Judge and our Hibernian “deck- passenger,” set tho table with ail tho available crockery, wo had became quite joyous, in spite pf tho rain that beat against the windows, the wind that whirled down the ohimney, the two ladies who whispered together in the corner, or the magpie who ntloredta satirical and croaking commentary on their conversation, from his perch above, ^atije now bright, blazing fire we could see that the walls were papered with iUustrated journals, arranged with feminine taste and discrimination. The furniture was extemporized, and adapted from candle boxes and packing-cases, and covered with gay calico, or the skin of some animal. The arm-chair of the helpless Jim was an ingenious variation of a flour barrel. There was neatness, and even a taste for the picturesque, to be seen in the few details of the long, low room. The meal was a culinary success. But more, it was a social triumph—chiefly, I think, owing to the rare tact of Higgles in guiding the con versation, asking aU the questions herself, yet bearing throughout a frankness that rejected the idea of any concealment on her own part, so that we talked of ourselves, of onr prospects of the journey, of the weather, of each other— of everything bnt onr host and hostess. I must be confessed that Higgles’ conversation was never elegant, rarely grammatical, and that at times she employed expletives, the nse of which had generally been yielded to our sex. But they were deUvered with such a lighting np of teeth and eyes, and were nsnaUy foUowed by a laugh—a laugh peculiar to Miggles—so frank and honest that it seemed to cloar the moral at mosphere. Once, daring the meal, we heard a noise Uke the robbing of a heavy body against the outer walls of the house. This was shortly foUowed by a scratching and sniffling at the door. ‘That’s Joaquin,’ said Miggles, in reply to our question ing glances; ‘would you like to see him ?” Be fore we could answer she had opened the door, and disclosed a half grown grizzly, who instantly- raised himself on his haunches, with his fore paws hanging down in the popular attitude of mendicacy, and looked admiringly at Miggles, with a very singular resemblanoe in his manner to Yuba Bfll “That’s my watch-dog,” said Miggles in explanation. “0, he don’t bite,” she added, as the two lady passengers fluttered into a comer. “Does he, old Toppy?” (the latter remark being addressed directly to the sagacious Joaquin.) “I teU you what, boys,” continued Higgles, after she had fed and closed tho door on UrsaMinor, “you were in bigluck that Joaquin wasn’t hanging round when yon dropped in to-night.” “Where was he ?” asked tho Judge. “With me,” said Miggles. “Lord love you; he trots round with me nights like as if he was a man.” We were silent for a few moments, and lis tened to tho wind. Perhaps we aU had the same picture before us—of Miggles walking through the rainy woods, with her savage guardian at her side. The Judge, I remember, said some thing abont Una and her Uon; but Miggles re ceived it as she did other compliments, with quiet gravity. Whether she was altogether un conscious of the admiration she excited—she could hardly havo been oblivious of Yuba BiU’s adoration—I know not; but her very frankness suggested a perfect sexual equality that was humiliating to the younger members of our party. The incident of tho bear did not add arv- thing in Higgles’ favor to the opinions of those of her own sex who were present. In faot, tho repast over, a chiUiness radiated from the two lady passengers that no pine boughs brought in by Ynba BiU and cast as a sacrifice upon the hearth could wholly overcome, Miggles felt it; and suddenly declaring that it was time to “turn in," offered to show the ladies to their bed in an adjoining room. “Yon, boys, wiU have to camp out hero by the fire as weU as yon can,” she added, “for thar ain’tbnt one room.” Our sex—by which, my dear sir, I aUude, of course, to the stronger portion of humanity— has been generaUy reUeved from tho imputa tion of curiosity, or a fondness for gossip. Yet I am constrained to say, that hardly had the door been closed on Miggles than we orowded together, whispering, snickering, smiling and exchanging suspicions, surmises, and a thou sand speculations in regard to onr pretty host ess and her singular companion. I fear that we even hustled that imbecile paralytic, who sat Uke a voiceless Memnon in our midst, gazing with the serene indifference of the past in his passionless eyes upon our wordy counsels. In the midst of an exciting discussion the door opened again, and Miggles re-entered. But not apparently, tho same Miggles who a few honrs before had flashed upon ns. Her eyes were downcast, and as Ehe hesitated for a moment on the threshold, with a blanket on her arm, she seemed to have left behind her the frank fearlessness which had charmed us a mo ment before. Coming into the room, she drew a low stool beside the paralytic’s chair, sat down drew the blanket over her shoulders, and saying, “If it’s all the same to you, boys, as we're rather crowded, I’U stop here to-night,” took the in valid’s withered hand in her own, and turned her eyes npon the dying fire. An instinctive feeling that this was only premonitory to more confidential relations, and perhaps some shame at onr previous curiosity, kept ns silent. The rain still beat upon the roof, wandering gusts o wind stirred the embers into momentary bright ness. until in a lull of the elements, Miggles suddenly lifted up her head, and, throwing her hair over her shonlder, turned her face upon the group and asked: “Is there any of you that knows me?” There was no reply. “Thinkagain! I Uved at MarysviUe in '03. Everybody knew me there, and everybody had the right to know me. I kept the Polka Saloon until I came to Uve with Jim. That’s six years ago. Perhaps I’ve changed some.” lie absence of recognition may have discon certed her. She fumed her head to the fire again, and it was some seconds before she again spoke, and then more rapidly: ‘WeU, you see I thought some of yon must have known me. There’s no great harm done, any way. What I was a going to say was this: Jim here’—she took his hand in both of hers as she spoke—* used to know me, if you didn’t, and spent a heap of money upon me. Beckon he spent all he had. And one day—it’s six years ago this winter—Jim came into my back room, sat down on my sofy, as you see him in that ebair, and never moved again withont help. He was struck all of a heap, and never asemra to know what ailed him. The doctors came and said as it was caused aU along of his way of life—for Jim was mity free and wild Uke—and that he'd never get better, and couldn’t last long any way. They advised me to send him to Frisco to the hospital, for he was no good to any one and would be a baby all his life. Perhaps it was something in Jim’s eye, perhaps it was that I had never had a baby, but I said “ No.” I was rich then, for I was popular with every body—gentlemen like yourself, sir, came to see me—and I sold ont my business and bought this yer place, because it was sort of out of the way of travel, you see, and I brought my baby here.’ With a woman’s intuitive tact and poetry, she had, as she spoke, slowly shifted her position so as to bring the mute figure of the ruined man between her and her audienoe, hiding in the shadow behind it, as if she offered it as a taoit apology for her actions. Silent and expression less, it yet spoke for her; helpless, and crashed, and smitten with the Divine thunderbolt, it stiU stretched an invisible arm around her. Hidden in the darkness, bnt stiU holding his hand, she went on s “It was a long time before I could get the hang of things around yer, for I was used to company and excitement. I couldn’t get any wo man to help me, and a man I dursent trust; but what with the Indians hereabouts, who would do odd jobs for me, and having everything sent from the North Fork, Jim and I manage to wor ry through. The Doctor would run up from Sacramento once in' a while. He would ask to see ‘Higgles’ baby,’as he called Jim, and when he’d go away, he’d say, “Miggles you’re trump, God bless yon; and it didn’t seem so lonely af ter that. Bnt the last time he was here he said, as he opened the door to go, Do you know, Maggies, your baby will grow up to be a man yet and an honor to his mother; bnt not here, Miggles, not here! ” And I thought he went away sad—and—and here Higgles’ voice and head were somehow both lost completely in the shade. “The folks about here are very kind,” said fTtggiM. after a pause, coming a Uttle into the Ugbt again. “The men from the fork used to flung around here, until they found they wasn’t -wanted, and the women are kind—and don’t calL I was pretty lonely until I picked np Joa quin in the woods yonder one day, when he wasn’t bo high, and taught him to beg for his dinner; and then that’s Polly—that’s the mag pie—she knows no end of tricks, and makes it quite sociable of evenings with her talk, and: so I don’t feel like as I was the only living being about the ranche. And Jim here,” said Higgles, with her old laugh again, aud coming out quite into the fire light, “Jim—why, boys, you wonld admire to see how muoh he knows, for a man like him. Sometimes I bring him flowers, and he looks at ’em just as natural as if he knew ’em ; and times, when we’re sitting alone, I read him those things on the wall. Why Lord!” saidMiggleswithherfrasklaugfa, “I’ve read him that whole side of the house this win ter. There never was such a man for reading as Jim.”-’- - ‘ • “Why,” asked the Judge, “do you not marry this man to whom you have devoted your youth ful tife?” “Well, you see,” said Miggles, “it would be playing it rather low down on Jim, to take ad vantage of his being so helpless. And then, too, if we were man and. wife, we’d both know that I was bound to do what I do now of my own accord.” “But you are young yot and attractive—.” “It’s getting late,” said Miggles, gravely, “and you’d better all turn in. Good night, boys s” and throwing the blanket over her head, Miggles laid herself down beside Jim's chair, her head pillowed on the lew stool that held his feet, and spoke no more. The fire slowly faded from the health; we each sought our blankets in silence; and presently there was no sonnd in the long room but the pattering of the rain upon the roof, and the heavy breathing of the sleep ers. It was nearly morning when I awoke from a troubled dream. The storm had passed, the stars were shining, and through the shutterless window the fall moon, lifting itself over the solemn pines without looked into the room. It touched tho lonely figure in the chair with an infinite compassion and seemed to baptize with a shining flood, the lowly head of the woman, whoso hair, as in the sweet old Btory, bathed vei9a the feet of him she loved. It even lent a kindly poetry to the rugged outline of Yuba Bill, half reclining on his elbow between them and his passengers, with savagely patient eyes keeping watch and ward. And then I fell asleep and only woke at broad day, with Yuba Bill standing over me, and “AR aboard,” ringing in my ears. Coffee was waiting for us on the table, but Miggles was gone. We wandered about tho house and lingered long after the horses were harnesses, but Bhe did not return. It was evi dent that she wished to avoid a formal leave- taking, and had so left ns to depart as we had come. After we had helped the ladies into the coach, we returned to tho house and solemnly shook hand3 with the paralytic Jim as solemnly settling him back into position after each hand shake. Then we looked, for tho last time, around the long, low, room, at the stool where Higgles had sat, and slowly took our seats in tho waiting coach. The whip cracked and we were off! But as wo reached the high road, Bill's dex terous hand laid the six horses back on their haunches, and the stage stopped with a jerk.— For there on a little eminenoo beside tho road, stood Higgles, her hair flying, her eye3 spark ling, her white handkerchief waving, and her white teeth flashing a last good bye. We waved our hats in return. And then Yuba Bill, as if fearful of another fascination, madly lashed his horses forward, and wo sank back in our seats. Wo exchanged not a word until we reached the North Fork, and the stage drew up at tho In dependence House. Then the Judge leading the way we walked into the bar-room, and took our places gravely at the bar. Are your glasses charged gentlemen ? said the Judge, solemnly taking off his white hat. They were. Well, then, here’s to Higgles, God bless eee ! Perhaps he did. Who knows ? BEAR BLEATING IN MONTEREY. Exciting Enconnter With a Female Griz zly. While at Monterey last week, says the Castro- ville Argus, we met Ed. Logwood, and were fur nished by him with the following particulars of an enconnter that he and his brother Joseph had with a female grizzly bear abont three weeks ago. The locality where it took place is in the mountains, about thirty miles south of Monte rey, in what is known as the “Fresno” district, beyond the head of Carmel Valley. The grizzly had killed a cow of Ed’s., one night, within abont three hundred yards of the house, and dragged the carcass into a dry creek bed, where it was found the second day after. The night following Joseph took his station in a tree close by to watch for the bear, and during the night got a shot at it, only succeeding, however, in breaking one of its forelegs. Next morning both brothers started out on horseback, and followed the trail of blood from the wounded limb about a mile up the ravine, at whioh point a grizzly cub about four months old rushed out of the brush, and was despatched forthwith. A very short distance beyond Ed., being in the advance, discovered the enemy, who gain ing sight of her human foes only about thirty feet off, immediately made a furious charge upon them. Ed. pulled the first trigger of his doublebarreled shot gun, but the gun snapped and by the time he could firo the other barrel, the bear was rearing np in the face of his mare. The latter made a fearful bound to one side, di verting Ed.’s aim, so that though the bear was blinded by the flash and smoke, the balls with which the gun was loaded only hit her in one of her hind feet. The jump of the mare threw her rider jpst as he fired right in front of the now thoroughly infuriated hear, which, luckily, blinded and bewildered by tho explosion and being under full headway, ran right over him at Joe who was close behind. Ho turned his horse as Bhe came and stunned her with a pistol shot, but not before she tore off the hind part of his saddle with one stroke of her sound forepaw, and by a charge completely demoral- IzqcL hia hors©, which ooon placed a reSp6CtaDl6 distance between himself and the enemy. Ed. had by this time convinced himself that he was not killed (although rendered very suspl- ous that he was by the bloody smearing ho had received as the bear rushed over him,) and hatless, gunless and horseless, beat a retreat instanter to join Joe on a rocks cliff about seventy yards off, from which a view of the wounded and prostrate foe could be had with safety. A council of war resulted in his starting off afoot for reinforcements, leaving Joe as a de tachment of cavalry to “sortof skirmish around” and watch the enemy. Opportune reinforce ment in the shape of a hunter with a rifle was met about half a mile off, aud from the top of the cliff mentioned that bear was 6oon filled with lead enough to ^akn a cold corpus of some rix or seven hundred pounds weight. Ed. expresses himself as perfectly satisfied Joe saved his life, bnt does not desire par ticularly that Joseph shall again be called upon to do so under like circumstances. It was cer tainly a narrow escape and a singularly fortu nate one for both men. Stantch is Chattanooga.—J. G, Stanton was in Chattanooga Saturday night, on his way to interview Gov. Lindsay at Montgomery. The Times says: He has no money with which to pay the hon est debts of the road incurred under his manage ment, and has neither the ability nor the will to raise any money to pay off. Yet ho had the sublime audacity to remain in this city and to face his former dupes, boldly proclaiming that ho had no money, but that he would hold the road for five years, and prevent the State of Alabama from running it. We rather like his cheek. We do not intend to abuse him, because he is at this time fatally dead, so far as his connection with the A. and O. B. R. is concerned, and is only going abont to savo funcrcl expenses. Ha is a very healthy looking corpse, it is true, aud has bought him self anew white hat, but stiU he is dead, and it would be meaner than we are capable of being to abuse a corpse. [Bor the Telegraph and Messenger. Manufactures and Agriculture—No. 2 Editors Tdegraph and Messenger : Lotus not look for assistance from abroad, for no great work was ever accomplished but by the efforts of men relying upon themselves. What, then, do we reqmze to commence this great work so much to be desired? The power necessary to accomplish *hia work is in the simple article of commeroe, money. For with this capital we can employ the brains and purchase the mus cle to execute any enterprise. And onr people, by the fiery energy and indomitable wiU exhib ited by them in tho late revolution, have shown that their talents, properly directed, are of an order capable of achieving undertakings re quiring the greatest human efforts. Our peo ple, individually, are too poor to even commence ftiia work; but that whioh cannot be accom plished by a single or small number of indi viduals may bo performed by a large commu nity, aU contributing in accordance with their circumstances in life. And this can only be accomplished by onr representatives in legis lative body assembled. For the last few years it has been the desire of one Legislature to lend the credit of the State to the building of railroads, and for that pur pose the State of Georgia has given her credit to the building of various railroads in different sections of the State. This credit has been ex tended by the State by the endorsement of the Bonds of said railroad companies to a certain amount per mile, and taking a mortgage upon tho entire property of said railroads to secure the State in the endorsement. It is well known by men conversant with the railroads of this State that some of them now built and in pro cess of construction wifl not pay the legal per cent, npon the capital invested in them, and eventuafly the State may be the loser to a con siderable extent by some of these enterprises. With the exoeption of affording a more conve nient method of transportation through the im mediate country which they pass, and facilita ting travel, they do not add materially to the wealth of the country through which they tra verse. The carrying trade and travel of the State of Georgia require no more railroads until her population and wealth are sufficiently in creased to support them. If the State of Georgia had given the same aid and credit to tho establishment of the man ufactures of cotton, wool, leather, iron and wood that she has to the construction of rail roads no one can doubt but that the material wealth and prosperity of our State and her peo ple would have been greatly increased. Legis lation might be enacted for the purpose of pur chasing suitable localities, for the exemption therefrom of taxation and other and farther enactments tending to protect and develop this great branch of industry. If the aid and credit of the State is to be given to internal improve ments, let it be to the manufacturing interests. At the same time the State should be protected from loss, and the maintaining of her credit should be be an object of the greatest care of the legislator. That the various manufacturing enterprises that might be entered into, if properly managed wonld be abundantly enabled to pay their bonded debt and at the same time remunerate their stockholders, there can little doubt considering the advantages they would possess in the cost of transportation alone. The present small manu facturing interest in onr State, although deficient in many of the late labor-saving and economical improvements, have been enabled to declare a good interest on tho capital employed in Uiem. There is no reason why that this proposed sys tem of giving the State’s credit under proper restrictions should be controlled or influenced by any single class of men, but legislation can be so enacted that the benefit thereof may ac crue to onr citizens of enterprise and worth, to the end that it may add to the wealth of the entire State. It has been bnt a short time since that the integrity of onr legislative bodies was never questioned, and enough of those men remain now or their Bons in their stead, and sufficient will be in our next Legislature to enact and have executed any law tending to the welfare of the State in an earnest and honest manner. In this climate the labor to carry on any in dustry should be as cheap, continuous and ef fective as in any country. The impetus pro posed to be given to our agricultural interest by the general government and the continued and increased efforts in that direotion wifl soon en able us to raise provisions for a much larger population; and our people are approaching a period when we wifl raise our own supplies as is being demonstrated in the great deorease of the supply of provisions required from the west, and the extremely low price of meat and bread stuff sin that locality. _ As the larger plantations are being subdivided we may look for more attention to be given to the raising of supplies, and our importations from tho West wifl necessarily be very small. The cities and the counties in nearly every por tion of this State, in their collective capacity, have subscribed and paid large sums of money for the construction of railroads, but for manu factures they have given comparatively nothing. For instance, the city of Macon has given to the amount of several hundred thousand dollars to the building of railroads and taken stock in the sam9, which has resulted in serious loss to her; while for tho advancement of any manufactur ing interest in her limits she has subscribed nothing, and is not now able to subscribe to anything. It is now proposed to connect Macon by rail direct with Knoxville, Tenn. While said road, if ever bnilt, would be of advantage to Maoon.the immense amount of mon®y necessary to build the long and expensive hneof said railroad might bo profitably flpont in tho different portion® of the State along its route than by i»a construction. The Bnrnlng of Columbia, S. C.—Who Did It? A writer in the Atlanta, Gs., Plantation, writing over the signature of “R. A. A,” says: A few weeks ago I saw the announcement of the sudden death of Mr. T. 8. Nickerson, the former proprietor of Nickerson’s Hotel, at Co lombia, S. 0., and more recently in charge of the Sore ven House, Savannah. I saw this news with regret, as he was a warm-hearted, amiable and benevolent man, and his aptitude for hid profession was remarkable. I have heard it said that there were more men born to make good Presidents of the United States than there were to be good hotel-keepers. Mr. Nickerson certainly was one. Daring the war he kept the best house in the Confederate States, and al though he was known to be a Unionist, yet his uniform kindness to our soldiers made him pop* ular. He accumulated an independent for tune, much of which was invested in his hotel. When Sherman was at Dalton, I happened tobe in Columbia, and Mr. Niokerson asked me ifT thought Sherman wonld ever reach Atlanta? I replied “Yes.” He then said: “ Do you think he will get to Colombia ?” I replied: “ If he ever passes Kennesaw Moun tain, he will sweep over the country like the waters of a mill-dam broke loose, and the very point he will make for will be Columbia.” At this Mr. Nickerson looked concerned, and he &Bked me, in a very earnest manner, what I wonld advise him to do, in such an event.— Said I: “ When Sherman gets here, make friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; place your house, your horses, your wines, and overtiring else that you have, at his disposal, and ask him to proteot you. This is the only course for you to pursue. This may savo yon; I know of no thing else.” . . In due time Sherman reached Colombia; the city was sacked and burned, and Nickerson, like everybody else, lost all he had. After the snr- render, at Charlotte, I was returning home, and massing through Columbia, called on Nickerson. He was living in a small house on the outskirts of what was once the city. He looked haggard, and I may almost say despairing. After bidding me welcome, he said: “Well, Colonel, I took your advice. When Sherman got here, I turned over all I had to him and his staff. I wore myself down in waiting on them, and at eight o’clock in the evening I went to my room and put on ntg slipper and threw myself on the bed for a short nap. I had scarcely composed myself when Is&ao, whom you knew well as my billiard marker, came rushing into my room and said to mo: Mr. Nickerson, you had better get Mrs. Nickerson ont of this hotel; they are going to burn this town at nine o’clook!” He says ha was so bewildered that he simply remarked, Great God, no!” “Yes they are,” said Isaao, “because I heard General Barnes and the officers say that the fire would commence at nine o’clock, while I was waiting on them at supper.” Niokerson said tho boy’s manner was so ear nest, and his expression so indicative of alarm, that he reshed down stairs, and ho approached the office, he saw the staff officers examining his horse blankets. “Great heavens, gentle men, what does this mean?” They sneeringly replied: “We ju3t thought we would appropri ate these, as you will not need them any more.” He then went to Gen. Barnes and begged him to save his house, which he agreed to do, and ordered a detachment of men to be in readiness. Nickcroon then commenced to collect all the blankets, and had them saturated, and even procured an engine. Sure enough, at 9 o’clock, the rockets went up, and in ten minutes the whole city was in flames, and thousands of poor women and chil dren were running to and fro, shrieking and screaming in despair and alarm. Nickerson succeeded in preventing the flames from reach ing his house for some time, until a band of soldiers came rushing into the honso and called for him to bring out a Confederate flag whioh they had heard he had. *ag it out d—n you, or we will murder you.” "He brought it out, and they trampled it under foot’ and then pro ceeded to cut tho hose and firo his house. He said: “In ten minutes more I was a ruined man. I stood bewildered and broken-spirited, looking upon the charred ruins of all that was left me of a long life of energy and toiL" And yet Sherman says Hampton burned Co lumbia. Gambling at Badeit'Badeiii From the London Globe, August 23.] The decision of the Beichsrath has beenpro- nonnoed, and all the gamingtables of Germany must positively be closed on the first day of De cember, 1S72. Weisbaden, Ems, Homburg, and Baden must find fresh means of attracting the publio, and of deriving the funds necessary for their great expenditure. Homburg alone pays a fine to the Government of 470,000 a year; and the expenses Qf keeping up the beau tiful gardens that surround it amount to an an nual outlay of 47,000, whioh are also paid out of the gaming tables. It wonld seem, as might be expected, that this year will be an unusually productive one; the players throng round tho tables every evening in rows of six deep, and many have to retire withont the wished-for op portunity of staking their money. The “Salon Dore” is crowded every night with spectators, and the play becomes very exciting. A company of Russian# nave come over witn the avowed intention of breaking tlm bank, ana night after nigut they may be seen winning ana losing enormous sums. Each is attended by his secretary, who sits besiae him and registers the gains or losses made by each coup. For one night thoy played alternate Btakes of 10,000 francs and 12,000 francs at a coup, the latter essary gaming tables. Originally the Homburg tables were open every day of the week, but the law which compelled them to close on Sundays did not include Nauheim, probably as being too insignificant The Nawheim di rectors accordingly made arrangements with these coach proprietors that Sunday passengers from Homburg should obtain return tickets at a single fare, the Company itself paying for their return journey. Accordingly on Sundays all the gamblers of Homburg packed off to Nauheim, and the rooms there became so crowded [that it was impossible to get to the tables. At last the law that affected the large town was extended to the little one, and forth with the liberal arrangements for Sunday traf fic came to an abrupt oonolusion. Every one is asking now; what will become of the adminis tration after 1S72. During the Emperor’s visit the town did everything to appease him, and then presented its petition that matters might remain as they were, at least till 1872. His Majesty replied that the'question did not rest with him, bnt had already been decided by the Beichsrath. It is said that the Company intend to open at Geneva, and that they will pay an enormous fine to the Swiss Government. at a single occasion. Of course, with all players the chances of the bank make its nltimate suc cess certain, bnt the players which it prefers are not the steady gamblers, bnt the occasional vis itors who yield to a passing temptation. A pro fessed gambler plays upon a system, and part of his system most objectionable to the bank is this, when he wins a large sum he stops. The celebratedHaltese,whobroketheHombargbank three years ago, used to pay into bankers large sums whenever he was successful, and ultimate ly left the place, carrying away from it many thousands of Naps destined to be lost at Baden-Baden a few weeks afterwards. It is otherwise with the tyro of the tables. He plays and and wins, becomes inocculated with the fever of gaming, and ultimately loses all he can readily obtain; at one time you see him playing until gold, flushed but anxious, then the wheel of fortune is adverse, the lightly got coin lightly goes; the hoards are swept back to original Bource, and he is almost “clean#* oct r Tie ooreoration that controls nearly the sum, equal to 4480 of our money, being the tire trade and travel that comes into th# city of largest sum which the bank permits to be staked Macon only has been enabled to make abont ' * “ 1 ten per cent on ita capital atock, aotanexces- sive sum, while other hues running'Into the ci£ have been carried on at p losa. Macon needs no addition to her travel or carrying trade until her wealth and manufacturing importance is more developed. Whereas, had the money ex pended by Macon for the construction of rail roads been expended for the purpose of devel oping tho water-power on the Ocmulgee above U3 for the building of factories for the purpose of the manufacture of cotton, wool and other fabrics, or for the purpose of cutting the timber on the Ocmulgee below us for the manufacture of wagons, furniture, staves and wooden ware, not only would the investment have been a good ono, bnt the material wealth of the city and her people would have been greatly increased. The small manufactures that wo now have of workers in cotton and iron add to the trade and business of our city, as onr mercantile men well know, and their loss would be a Berious one to the trade of the city. The position of the State of Georgia from the coal and iron belts on the north to the broad Atlantic on tho south, with harbors capa ble of an unbounded commerce and trade, ena bles us to look forward to our future importance as a State and a people. Therefore let us urge upon our legislators to take if it be but one step toward fostering the manufacturing inter ests in our State ere we find ourselves tributa ries to the people around us. F. Why the Democrats Lost California* The New York Bun, of Saturday, expla*^ 016 Democratic defeat in California as ’ The Democrats have lost majority. This is due to a weak platform, a feeble candidate for Go^ruor, a on their part destitute of f'™?. P Ia “°™ holders insisted upon putting him on the track for a second term. The Republicans nominated Newton Booth, a favorite with the people, and threw into the campaign a powerful anay of speakers from the Eastern States, while the Democrats had no orator oapable of ^meeting them, except the Hon. S. S. Cox, of this city. VllKliiai DVIUVB) UUU MU ■ You would think that now, at least a® stop; but no, the hand that staked an hour ago now stakes guldens. « that Homburg spreads * ttr ‘^J 1 a prodigality that is oto'^kviaA Bands, con certs, balls, shady v*»iks under well-preserved treeplantations, picket, himfang, pigeon-shoot ing, the sparing " al « re of the KaiserBronnen 71°aseptic, reading-rooms for all classes flnator urinations, and all this free; it only novl/ta chance at the table, and it does not ask that, but trusts to the common pro pensity for gambling, that is independent of race, language and nation. Day after day the train takes back to Frankfort visitors who re turn with lighter purses than they reckoned on./ “But there’s aye a green crop coming,” and every night the tables are again crowded. Ab an illustration of what expeases are In curred without hope of other return than that whioh is paid down so liberally on the green cloth, it i3 known that the opera costs the ad ministration more for every representation than would be realized, assuming the house to be filled at the exorbitant prices that are asked. Madame Patti alone reoeiyea tax titistaOQ per formances £3,500, and su6h artistajjgJWbelli- Bettini, Fancelli, and Bettini sanKHt— Some miles from Homburg there ST’Vpleasant little town of Nauheim, which has a natural salt- Letters to South Georgia Farmers— Mo. 2. BE HXBBKBX FIELDEB. I wish in this article to present the subject of the growth of tttfmals for food service and fer tilizing land. Many of you have insisted that with the present population and oivil regula tions for the protection of private property, you cannot profitably raise hogs for meat; and act ing npon this conclusion, often withont having made a fair trial, you have purchased your meat from abroad. Our people have not shown the energy and will to raise hogs that they have to raise cotton, or they would long since_ have over come most of the difficulties that lie in the way. If yon toll me you can’t suooced in raising hogs in the woods, I agree with you, and go farther: If you could raise them in the woods they are hardly worth raising that way. "When you raise animals for service, yon look to bone and muscle, bnt hogs only for the food their flesh affords. The more rapidly this. is produced, the less its cost and the bettor its quality. It takes your ordinary breeds of hogs from two to three years to get their growth in the woods, so that you can fatten them. Dar ing all this time you have to feed them some to keep them gentie; and they work it ont trying to get a precarious living by rooting, even if they, esoape hog thieves. When you take them up to fatten, it takes often from one* to two months to get tho turpentine and wild root juices out of them and their digestion and skin in healthy condition, bo that they will set out on a new growth and ultimately fatten only tolera bly, and seldom make large meet, whioh is most acceptable in feeding your laborers. In fatten ing them you feed away more than it would have required to raise and fatten them in en closures, where you can have them safe from ■ rogues and derive all their fertilizing benefits. A pig that lies down all day keeps fat and grow ing on but little food. He grows to maturity sooner, grows larger, costs less, and makes more and better food in flesh and qiL Add to this estimate, the advantages of pasturage on roots and the vino crops and grasses to which I wish again to allude, and which can be provided by every farmer at comparatively trifling ex pense, and the safety and health of these ani mals by enclosing them as you do your horses and mules, and it would seem that no judicious farmer can hesitate to give the theory a fair trial And it cannot be overlooked, that, by this method you can control tho breeding and soon vastly improve the stock. A breeding sow ought to be large and kept fat. If she has more than four pigs the surplus ought to be killed off the first day, leaving her such number as will begin and continue a rapid growth without reducing the sow. The pigs thus hurried will be ready for the smoke-house in a year. The sow mil breed rapidly and in a given number of years raise as many pigs as if allowed to raise large litters, and beoome poor in nursing them. The large litters of pigs get poor and stnnted in growth, requiring a much longer time to get grown, and never grow so large. They usually cost more to raise and fatten them than their meat is worth. Onr fanners usually raise their work steers, their milch cows and beeves, and buy all their horses and mules from other States. Now, a calf eats abont as much as a colt, and a steer con sumes about as much by the time he comes to the yoke, and a cow by the time she comes to the milch pail, as' a mule does by the time he ia ready for the plow. Tho one Is worth from $20 to $40, the other from $100 to $200. Can any man give a sensible reason why he will raise the one and buy the other, when they can be raised on abont the same kind and quantity of food, and in about the same length of time ? Horse power is one of the most important items of real value in all onr agricultural projects, and under the habit or baying instead of raising, it is one of the mOat expensive. But few farmers seem to attach sufficient im portance to the class of horse power they em ploy. Your capital invested in farming con sists of your land, rolling Btock and implements, seed planted, fertilizers applied, labor, whether of your own hands or hired, provisions for man and horses, and your skill and care, and your horse power. All may be first-class except the last, and if that is defective the enterprise must to some extent prove a failure. Take a railroad oompany for illustration. They ex pend millions of dollars for first-class road bed and rails, and cars, and agents and employees. Would it not be poor economy, for the differ ence in the price of engines, to pat on such aB are too weak to pull the trains? The same kind of economy is shown by every farmer who puts a weak or slow male to plow. A has a mule worth $100—B has one worth $250; their land, labor, and fertilizersand provisions, implements and skill are all equal B’s mule will plow a third more land and plow it better than A’a— and the difference in the value of their pro ducts will more than pay for the fine mtde the first year, while the inferior mule ia a drawback upon all the balance of the oapital invested. Now if fanners could be induced to raise in stead of buy, the oost wonld be but little more ■to raise fine than scrub stock. If the quantity of milk and butter and beef were increased, not only wonld the health of the people be promo ted, bnt a large portion of toe baoon bills might be cut off. And if it *e really true that hog growing Is imprao«|»We in the negro belV we should have by less use for that animal But our ejstem is ruinous, even as it relates to the stock we do raise and own. For oer- fptnV t>® most profitable part of the badness ji/allowed to go to waste. The fertiliser from a cow or hog, or even a valuable horse or mule, if husbanded, iswortB'far more than the ani mal for any purpose by the time they are fit for use. A hog or cow raised in an enclosure, or penned regularly, is worth far more for manur ing land than for food or milk and butter. Not only ought all our farmers be induced to save this most valuable quality, but to increase it, and thereby not only add to the value of their annual crops but cut off a large portion of the expenses they incur for meat under the present system. Take this - heavy tax off cotton, and put it on hogs, cattle, mules and horses, where, instead of a drain upon the gross inoome, it ia . a regular contributor to swell the net profits of the business. _ Buixock’s Bonds.—The following Is taken from the 'Washington correspondence of the Savannah Advertiser: Prior to the publication of Treasurer Angler’s testimony, there was some little demand for Bgllock’s seven per cent, gold bonds in New York. The expose of their utter worthlessness has completely stopped their sale, and the quo tations occasionally given are, from what is known in financial circles, as “wash sales.” For instance, Clews & Co., will send two attor neys to tile Stook Exchange, when Georgia sevens are called one of these attorneys will bid 98£ for 5,000. His partner immediately cries ont, “sold.” Thns a high quotation is officially obtained, when, in reality, there wm spring, and is reaobed from Hombnrg by coaches 1 no bid "for the bonds at any price. In foot, tt that Btart at fixed times daily. There a rival is doubtful if any portion of these bonds could oompany have established a kursal and the neo- be negotiated at any prioe. ■aannam
