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Tlie Greorgia, 'W'eeld.y Telegraph and Journal &c Messenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, SEPTEMBER 26,1871.
News Items.
Selma must be a carefully regulated place.
VTo see by the Times that the municipal court
last Wednesday, fined a negro five dollars “for
using profane language in a publio place.” If
Mayor Huff, of Macon, would only put on the
five dollars for every case of “using profane
language in publio places,” morals would im
prove or the city be in funds—perhaps both.
Columbus Cotton Receipts.—Columbus up
to Wednesday night had received 576 bales of
cotton since the 1st instant. Receipts for the
same time last year 2,712 bales.
EurinLi speaks of a tremendous rain last
Tuesday. Planters in that vicinity complain
that their cotton is sprouting in the boll.
Vicksburg and Bbunswick Railroad.—The
Eufaula News says that this road will be laid as
far as Clayton, twenty miles beyond Eufaula, in
a few days. The News suggests a public frolic
on the occasion.
The Selma Times says that the cotton crop
of 1871-72 will not exceed two millions and a
quarter of bales.
Louisiana Levees.—The New Orleans Times
of Wednesday sounds a loud alarm about the
condition of the levees, which are caving and
crumbling in a good many places. The great
Bonnet Carre Crevasso is still open for a full
half a mile. Thero is a great breach on the
Now Orleans side of the Metairie Ridge which
will discharge water over the rear of the city.
The Levee is caving west of Baton Rouge and
Point Coupee, and in numerous other places.
A it ails in Massachusetts.—A Republican
dispatch from Washington, the 18th, says:
Butler's campaign in Massachusetts is sug
gesting to the people of that State the feasibili
ty of reconciling themselves to a Democratic
Governor, in case Butler should win in the nom
inating Convention. Prominent Republicans
here say that they would work for John Quincy
Adams "in preference to Butler. But the plan
agreed upon by Butler's Republican opponents
is, first, to contest the seats of all Butler dele
gates, and if Bntler should then bo nominated,
to repudiate the nomination and put a third man
in the field, claiming the latter as the regular
nominee.
Human Hahs Mobs Valuable than Gold.—
The New York Sun says a quantity of hair,
silky, silver-gray, and thirty inches long, wa3
recently sold by John Thompson & Co., 441
Broadway, for 835 an ounce—nearly twice as
much as gold will bring! Messrs. Thompson
& Co.—the largest dealers in the United States
in made up hair goods-.-have imported 6,000
pounds of hair since January, paying for it
§100,000, gold. They have at work on it 100
girls, who earn from §12 to §18 a week; and yet
they find tho demand greater than the supply.
Hair has advanced 25 per cent, in market
value, and is likely to go up 25 per cent. All
which resnlts from tho silly, ungraceful and un
healthy fashion of piling on immense mabses
of false hair upon the human caput. Would
that our Southern ladies wonld declare their in
dependence of this ridiculous freak.
No Standard of Fashion.—Tho New York
correspondent of tho Chicago Times says there
is now no standard of fashion, and no prevail
ing stylo. Milliners and dress makers are al
most driven to desperation. Paris has lost its
prestige. The German fashion pipers repeat
the same old styles and have not originality and
taste enongh to invent new ones. The result
is overy one is striking out original lines, and
the season is showing snch a variety in bonnets
and dresses, both as to style and material, as
never was known before.
The Cottage by the Sea. —The Chicago Times
gives the history of Grant’s Cottage by the Sea.
It was a mixed land and political speculation.
Two real estato speculators, both democrats,
gave the land, and Thomas Murphy, John Hoey
and John Chamberlain built the house at a cost of
ten thousand dollars apiece, and supplied it
with wines, liquors and cigars of the most ap
proved brands. Murphy also bought a cottage
adjoining the President’s, for Gen. Porter, the
President’s private secretary, for twenty thou
sand dollars. Murphy, at that lime, was a
Tammany office-holder, and was known as tho
sole donor of this property. He got for it the
post of Collector of Customs in New York City,
although he was known to have voted for
Hoffman against Fenton for Governor of the
State. Hoey and Chamberlain looked for their
reward in tho more legitimate channels of trade
and speculation. The establishment of the
“Summer Capital of the United States at Long
Branch,” greatly enhanced the value of their
other property at that place, and Chamberlain,
who is heavy on cards and horse racing, reaped
indirect returns of immense value from the in
vestment.
The Ohio Election.—An Ohio correspondent
of the New York Tribune predicts with the
greatest confidence p Radical majority of ten to
sixteen thousand. Election on the 10th prox.
The horror stricken Radicals who are groan
ing over Connolly’s frauds in Now York, re
mind the New Haven Register of the story of
a gambler on a Mississippi riversteamer. Watch
ing his opportnnity, he slipped out four aces
and placed them on his knee under tho table.
The man next to him discovered the trick, and
without being observed, took the aces and put a
very poor hand in their place. The dealer ex
changed his hand for what he supposed to be
his aces, and without looking to sec, bet largely,
and when called by his opponent fonnd to his
ntter astonishment, that he had not oven a
single pair. “Gentlemen,” said he, “I shall
play no longer. There is cheating around this
board.”
The California Election.—The New Haven
Register has received samples of tho ballots
used in the late election in California, and they
are a curiosity in their way. A copy of tho
Republican ticket, printed in tho smallest typo
east, in various colors, and impossible of alter
ation, is among the specimens. These were
given to persons employed by the Government,
and in the Navy Yard at Mare Island—with a
hint that their places were dependent npon the
voting of that ballot! The writer says “a
more corrupt election was never held in any
State of this Union.” It is tho Grant pro
gramme. Those who do not sustain his claims
to another term, cannot eat tho “bread and but
ter” of tho administration. These virtuous
men have embodied their abhorrence of all at
tempts to bribe, intimidate or overawe voters
by makiDg them penitentiary offences.
Judiciary in the Mnn>.—Tho local of the
Mobile Register, of Thursday, says:
The Honorable Judge of the Circuit Court,
John Elliott, went on one of bis customary
sprees Tuesday night, and in consequence was
found at a late hour dead drunk, and rolling
about on a sidewalk or in the gutter. His rid
ing horse was fonnd shortly afterwards on Com
merce street, and the animal was also pickod
up, but in a sober condition, tho long associa
tion with its master not having corrupted its
good morals. . The Judge was taken to the lock
up, and tho horse to a stable.
And that is the way “the party of high moral
ideas" is illustrated in Alabama.
Death fbom the Bite of a Rattlesnake.—
Mr. J. W. Fuller, near Gainesville, Florida, was
bitten by a rattlesnake at ten in the morning of
the lGth and died In excruciating agony at 5 p.
XL, same day.
Flobida Cotton Cbop.—Tho Florida papers
all agree that not more than half a cotton crop
will be gathered in that State.
Bain Fall in Flobida.—The Paletka Herald
say that the rainfall in East Florida for the
week commencing the 12th inst. and ending
the 20th, was twenty-one inches and nineteen
one hundreths. This is equivalent in measure
to 18,103 barrels per acre, and in weight to 2,-
382 tons for tho same acre. More than half of
this enormous amount of water was precipita
ted in two days, beginning the 7th and 8tb, du
ring the prevalence of the cyclone or tornado.
The Suez Canal.—The prospects of tho
great Egyptian Canal have assumed a brighter
appearance. The company has concluded to re
sort to another loan, and have authorized the
raisiDg of another additional 20,000,000 francs.
To meet this the Viceroy has allowed the com
pany to increase the tolls one franc per ton.
The regular traders which use the canal route
represent 340,000 tons. This multiplied by
their annual voyages indicates 2,000,000 tons,
producing 20,000,000 for tolls per year. A line
of steamers is to bo established between Lon
don and Shanghai, and will commence running
on the 1st proximo. This is expected to add
500,000 francs annually to the treasury of the
canal, and the company have been apprised by
the British Government that it intends sending
nineteen transports through between this month
and March next, the tolls on which will be from
700,000 to 800,000 francs. The practicability
of keeping the canal free of sand accumula
tions has been settled satisfactorily, and indica
tions are that the question as to the success of
the work financially will, ere long, have as grat
ifying a solution.
Plain Speaking.—The Radicals of Senator
Conklin’s own Assembly District passed the fol
lowing resolution at a party meeting last week:
Resolved, That Hon. Boscoe Conkling has
created heart-burning, dissensions, and divisions
in the Republican party in the State of New
York, and we respectfully request him to leave
the management of the party affairs to the par
ty itself.
Cotton receipts of Columbus on Friday were
fifty-three bales against 253 same day Iast'year.
The Connecticut apple crop in many sections
of the State will be almost a total failure. In
Canton, where it has been customary to make
about six thousand barrels of cider a year, man
ufacturers are in donbt whether it will pay to
start a single mill.
Taxation in New Obleans.—The Picayune
of Thursday says “ according to calculations
based on official figures or fair estimates, the
holders of property in New Orleans now pay, in
Federal, State and municipal taxes, more than
ten per cent, of the total assessed valne of all
persona land real property within the limits of the
pariah of Orleans. According to the judgment
and deliberate opinion of business men, not
only the people of this city and Louisiana, bnt
the people of the entire South, are now paying
out in the shape of taxes more than the actua.
income upon their property and industry. We
are working merely for our subsistence, our
victuals and our clothes: all our profits are ab
sorbed in taxes.”
Replanted too Late.—Tho Floridian says
that the recent severe winds blew out a good
deal of cotton from the bolls, which being beat
en down into the soil by the heavy rains which
followed, is now growing off finely in some
places—the stalks havmg three or four leaves.
Tho same paper says farmers in Florida are
very blue over the prospect of half a crop of
cotton. They had a very heavy rain last Sun
day, and the Floridian says:
In some portions of the State whole districts
are nnder water, and almost total destruction to
crops has followed. Tho rain has prevented
cotton picking, and mnch of that which was
open has been beaten out and lays upon the
ground, where, on some plantations, the seed
has sprouted.
Save Grass.
The wet weather has produced such an abun
dant growth of crab grass in the com fields that
we do hope farmers will save enough of it to
save the public that sight bad enough to make
eyes sore and heads ache—Georgia farmers
hauling home western hay to feed their stock.
The cotton crop is not so big bnt yon can spare
time to save yonr grass. On your plantation it
is worth two cents and a half per pound—while
in town it is quoted at §1 80@$1 90 per hun
dred, and overy mnlo and horse on yonr place
will leave tho coarse Northern or Western hay
any day in the winter for well cured crab grass
from yonr fields. Don’t pull the grass np by
the roots, unless yon want to min yonr stock.
They P-annot flourish nn rlncf ond m-rwl On.» nf
our acquaintances fonnd, on post mortem ex
aminations that be had killed several valuable
mules by feeding with com and fodder off the
ground. Take a good, short grass blade, well
ground and cut the grass; or if for any reason
that be impracticable—a reaping hook or sickle
will do good execution. A good hand ongbt to
cut at least four or five hundred weight a day,
and this is n profitable business, at two cents a
pound.
Fob Secbetaby of the Senate.—Wo under
stand that onr old time friend, college mate
and townsman, Colonel Luoins M. Lamar, will
be a candidate for the office of Secretary of the
next State Senate. Who his competitors will be
we are not informed, bnt we are sure the posi
tion conld not be filled by a truer man, a more
thorough gentleman, or a more gallant soldier.
He wonld discharge all its duties ably and sat
isfactorily, and we shonld take great pleasure
in chronicling tho fact of his election. We hope
his claims and qualifications for the position
will receive that earnest consideration which
they so eminently deserve.
Titusville, Pa., is in aferment. The difficul
ty is that the negroes were refused a seat at the
breakfast given in honor of Grant, although
they had bought tickets at two dollars ahead.
They were ignominiously ejected from the door,
after tho managers had invited them to buy
tickets, and told them they onght to bo there to
show respect for the Chief Magistrate of the
Radical party. What makes the case more in
flammable is tii&i theso negroes wore venerable
men—pastors and fathom in the Church, and
men who carried pockets well lined with green
back. Titusville, and especially the sable part
of it, is raving.
Putnam County Faib.—We call attention to
the advertisement of Pntnam County Fair in
another colnmn. It will commence October
11th and last through tho 13th. We are glad
to hear that great interest is manifested in this
Fair, and that the indications am very good for
a largo attendance. We feel snre it will be an
affair that will reflect great credit npon tho
clever folks of that good old ccunty, and that
all who attend will have a fine time, and see a
good show in all the departments.
Messes. Valiant, Jones & Co., Baltimobe,—
Mr. Jones, a member of this firm, is already
well and favorably known to our readers. He is
a high toned gentleman and will take special
pains to please his Georgia customers. Dealers
in crockery can find no better bargains else
where, and wo earnestly commend to their pa-
tronago this young and rising mercantile house.
See card.
Unanimously Elected.—We learn that Col.
C. C. Kibbeo, of Hawkinsvilie, Democratic can
didate for the Senate from tho district composed
of the counties of Pulaski, Wilcox, Dooly, and
Dodge, received all tho votes polled at the elec
tion on the 13th instant. Tho vote was not very
full, owing to the hoavy rains precoeding the
election which destroyed bridges etc., bnt suf
ficiently so to prove in what high esteem Col K.
was held. Our friends down there have given
him what we asked for when he was nominated
viz • An overwhelming endorsement as one in
every way worthy their support. We congratu
late both upon a result as well deserved by bim
as it is honorable to them.
The Weatheb.—We have had two bright days
in snccession and begin to see that the sun has
not lost the capacity to shine. The weather has
been quite cool for the season. Friday morning
the mercury indicated fSG at sunrise. Saturday
was warmer but we took no observation.
the latest foot, and his folly.
Hotv a Michigander Assayed a Lofty
Flight, and Got a D<need Hard Fall In
stead.
The Detroit Free Press gives a funny account
of a late effort by one Fulger, a crack-brained
Michigander, to locomote per wings, instead of
in the usual way. Fulger has spent lots of time
and money perfecting his wings, and the other
day announced himself ready, and produoed
them for public inspection. They are described
as seven feet long by three feet eight inches
wide, and shaped like those of an eagle. They
fastened nnder the arms, being held in place
by cords running over the shoulders. They
weigh one and a fourth pounds each. On the
upper side of each wiDg, just where the hands
could grasp them, a strip of stout rubber was
fastened, and the flying was to be done by the
mangraspiDg these handles and working the
wings np and down; the hands first pushing and
then pulling.
After everybody had looked, admired, and
congratulated, Fulger shook hands all round,
mounted the roof of the house whence he in
tended to soar, and modestly announced the
sun as his destination instead of a neighboring
city as first intended.
Standing on the extreme end of the ridge,
just over a bed of rank grass and tall weeds,
the “bird” seized the wings firmly, threw out a
quid of fine-cut, and took the leap. Exactly
what took place cannot be described, as every
one was laughing so that his eyes refused to see:
but there was a jump, a flop, two or three keel
overs, a rustling of 6ilk, and the audience saw
Mr. Fulger lying on his stomach on the ground
tho spreading wing3 making him a figure comio
beyond description. He was raised up, turned
over, and soon opened his eyes and wanted to
know what had occurred, and was soon leaning
against the house and breathing hard. He
claimed that he lost his balance at the critical
moment, or else he would have sailed away like
a Muscovy duck, but declined to repeat the
experiment again, saying that he didn’t feel
welL
Instead of sympathizing the audience roared,
and Fulger grew wroth and threatened to punch
somebody’s head. But he soon cooled down
and says he will yet take a moonlight excursion
over their heads. We suggest that Mayor Huff
send for the “bird” and give him a show at our
State Fair. If he doesn’t “draw” like a house
a fire, we will be greatly fooled.
Carl Scknrz In Nashville.
Senator Schmz, of Missouri, addressed all
shades and colors in tho capital at Nashville on
Wednesday last, and his speech appears in the
Nashville papers of Thursday evening, occupy
ing abont twelve columns. It is, for the most
part, a general review of the situation resulting
from the war, and a defence of Radical Recon
struction os inevitable to the circumstances, and
not resulting from any hostility to the conquer
ed whites of the South. He excepts, of course,
in this defenco, tho Ku-klux bill, which he op
posed and denounced in the Senate.
Looking at the immediate party situation, be
denounces the Radical organization for its tyr
anny, selfishness and corruption, and the Dem
ocratic party for its inability to comprehend and
adapt itself to the condition of the country. He
says a National Democratic triumph would be
the greatest of all misfortunes to the country,
but moro especially to the South herself. He
wants a third party movement based on cordial
harmony with and acceptation of achieved re-
salts, and a determination to maintain tho con-
stitntion as it stands and rebuke tyranny, mal
administration and corruption. He thinks the
tendency to this third party is breaking through
the skin of the body politic in all directions.
Tho tone of the speech is dispassionate, states
manlike and dignified throughout—tho reasoning
extremelyplausible—the statementof the North
ern side very ingenious and strong—and the
whole performance wearing an air of great can-
oiubcxiij ouil palilutlem. jtt flvt
dently a man of mark and will leave a strong
impression behind him.
Now and Then.
George Wilkes, who not only as a “horsey,”
bnt as an extremely “loyal” man is a bosom
friend of the Great American Present Taker,
stated in May, 1868, that he had a conversation
with the G. A. P. T. aforesaid, in which, in
Wilkes’ language: “Of his own accord the Gen
eral introduced the subject of the single Presi
dential term, and not only declared himself in
favor of it, bnt expressed the opinion that the
passage of a constitutional amendment effecting
that reform is absolutely necessary to the preser
vation of our liberties."
What a change has come over tho spirit of his
dreams since then. Now, instead of urging the
adoption of a constitutional amendment to pre
vent his re-eligibility, he is urging his re-eleo-
tion. Ho is willing to risk “our liberties” while
he can retain the loaves and fishes of office for
striotly family purposes.
Extremes Meet.
The Courier-Journal, of Wednesday, says that
Mr. George Harding, who was imported “ to
Kentucky from Indiana some time ago by the
Bourbons, and who has been for five or six
months the most malignant and abusive of the
extreme writers against the “New Departure”
in that city, has gone back to Indianapolis to
edit the new evening organ of Governor Mor
ton just established in the capital of onr neigh
bor Stale.” Mr. Harding must be an “affinity”
of the Hon. B. H. H. He has fallen almost “as
fnr and as heavy” as did the author of “Notes
on the Situation” when he plumped into the
abyss of that AInmni address at Athens last
Commencement.
Startline Statement?.
The Washington Patriot, speaking of the as
tounding defalcations of Major Hodge, of the
War Department (which were covered np by
false balances in his reports) makes the follow
ing statement-, which is what many have sus
peeled might bo the case:
“Within the last few weeks, the Comptroller
of tho Treasury has admitted, over his official
signature, that a million of notes have been
issued by the Treasurer of the United States,
without “any record of their denominations or
numbers.” Who can tell how many more mil
lions have been pnt in circulation without re
cord? The statements of the pnblio debts,
made by the Secretary of the Treasury and
the Treasurer, exhibit a discrepancy of one
hundred and ten millions of dollars. And it
is notorious here, that the books of the
Register and the Secretary, cannot be balanced
by many millions. All attempts to reconcile
these differences have utterly failed, and the
Treasury statements are forced, false, and arbi
trary. Wo repeat, that investigation is demand
ed, for the protection of the holders of public
securities, and to chock the organized robbery,
by which rings of plundering officials and Rad
ical parties are daily enriching themselves at
the expense of an outraged and over-taxed
people. Heretofore, Congress has obstinately
refused to permit any form of inquiry, or any
fair examination of the books of- the Treasury
by competent experts. If after these alarming
disclosures, a partisan majority should continue
to close the doors against proper scrutiny, there
can be but one conolnsion in the publio mind.”
Abk the recovered dyspeptics, Bilious suff
erers, victims of Fever and Ague, the mercurial
diseased patients, how they recovered health,
cheerful spirits, and good appetites—they will
tell yon by taking Simmons’ Liver Regulator.
Geoegia Gold.—Mr. Butts, of this city, re
ceived yesterday a letter from a gentleman in
Lumpkin county, which stated that a piece of
quartz rock had been pioked up in that county
weighing sixty-eight pounds, and was found to
contain 500pennyweights of gold!
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
The proprietors of the Sumter Republioan
have resumed the publication of their tri-weekly
edition.
The people of Amerious will vote, on the 7th
of-October, on a proposition to transfer their
subscription of $50,000 to tbo Isabella and
Amerious road to the Newnan and Americns
ditto.
The Americns Republican reports very short
cotton crops in that and adjoining coanlies. A
half crop is all that any body expects now.
In Thomas county the open ootton is rotting
in the fields, and the seed of that which has been
saved is sprouting to such an extent that it is
doubtfnl whether enough will be saved for next
season’s planting.
The Satilla river rice crop promises a fair
yield. One thousand bushels were received at
Savannah, Thursday, from ono plantation.
Aaron Alpeoria Bradley has turned up at Sa
vannah again, in anticipation of the coming
municipal election. He wants to be Mayor,
himself, and says tho city “must have some cul-
lud aldermen, and that dem dam Irish and
Crackers mnst be turned off the police force.”
In consequence of these demonstrations, Sa
vannah chickens are roosting higher than ever,
just now.
James Graddy had his left arm amputated at
Rowe’s saw mill, in Meriwether county, last
Friday, by falling against the saw.
The Chronicle and Sentinel, of Thursday,
says:
Repobts fbom Jeffebson.—The soldiers sent
to Jefferson have been stationed in Louisville,
and not at Bartow, as at first reported. They
are under command of a Prussian officer, who
has made a very favorable impression on tho
citizens. The commandant seems to think that
he will be kept in the connty for several months,
Ho was sent there very hurriedly, and had not
received instructions how to act. It is now very
positively asserted that the three soldiers who
came back with Bug Fierce as a guard last Fri
day did not belong to the United States Army,
but were discharged men, whom Pierce hired to
act as protectors.
The fall matrimonial campaign was inagura-
ted at Columbus on Wednesday. Mr. Chas. H.
Williams and Miss Sallie Wilkins, and Mr. Hen
ry Henes and Miss Mollie Gresham, being the
parties participant.
We clip follows from the Columbus Enquirer
of Thursday:
Wobk Nor Suspended.—The Macon Tele-
gbaph is right in taking cum grano a statement
made to it by an anonymous correspondent, to
tho effect that the Columbus Enquirer had re
ported that work on the Columbus and Rome
Railroad had been suspended by injnnction.
Injunctions to restrain the company from run
ning tho road across certain lands until the right
of way is settled, have been granted; but tho
company gave the bonds required and proceeded
with the work, and the jury for the settlement
of controversies of this character have already
acted on one of the cases, fixing tho damages at
less than one-tenth of the amount claimed. The
work progresses briskly.
The editor of the Columbus Sun thinks that
the “diamond-pointed drill” could not pene
trate our head, because of its slippery surface,
and advises us to “buy a wig or use bear’s oil.”
Pshaw! Bro. Miller", every body knows that
onr head is as bare outside as yours is inside;
so you need not advise us to attempt any con
cealment—not even your “ostrich” trick.
The young femmes of Atlanta aro betting
with their sweethearts on the coming municipal
election after this fashion: If yonng femme's
candidate for Mayor wins, she is to kiss sweet
heart, but if sweetheart’s candidate wins he is
to kiss her.
Thos. G. Simms, ex-postmaster of Atlanta,
was acquitted yesterday, in the United States
Distriot Court, on the charge of embezzling
public funds.
The Atlanta Sun, of yesterday, has tho follow
ing:
A Terrible Accident —Two Men Blown Up.
—Day before yesterday, at the rock quarry of
Broomhead & Alexander, near the Barracks, a
frightful accident occurred. The quarry was
being worked by convicts nnder tho manage
ment of Messrs- Brcoroboiul Sr. Alernn,1<yr, and
a while lad named Alexander, and a negro con
vict were blasting. After filling the hole with
powder and igniting tho fuze, it failed to ex
plode, when they returned to read j ust it. While
working at it the powder caught fire, making a
tremendous explosion. Beth arms of young
Alexander were broken, and both eyes, it is
feared, put out. The negro was badly burnt.
Alexander has only been in the chain gang for
a week or so. His father is or was Marshal of
the city of Opelika, Ala. He was convicted at
the last term of tho District Court for theft from
his boarding Loose.
The Constitntion, same date, says:
State Road Rumors.—It is rumored that At
torney-General Farrow will not only bo aided
by Hon. B. H. Hill and Judge John W. H,
Underwood as general counsel in all the prose
cations against parties who have perpetrated
frauds upon the Western and Atlantio Rail
road, but has also secured local counsel in each
connty through which the road passes, deem
ing local counsel essential in accepting or re
jecting jurors, and that Col. Lester, in Cobb;
Gen. Wofford, in Bartow; Col. Dabney, in
Gordon, and Col. Wash Joshnon, in Whitfield
and Catoosa, have been retained by him. If
this be true, it looks like work.
And the spending of lots more of tho poople’s
money.—[Eds. Tel. and Mess.]
The Rome Courier, of Thursday, says:
An Outrage.—Wo regret to learn that a most
cowardly and brntal outrage was perpetrated in
Walker county last Tuesday. A man by the
name of Hcptenstali, with his wife and son,
were taken from the house and severely whipped
by a mob; after which a gentleman named
Moore was also visited, and a like indignity in
flicted upon him. The affair creates the greatest
indignation among the citizens, and we hear
that an indignation meeting will be called to
oondemn and denounce tho outrage and its per
petrators. It is said that Heptenstail is a worth
less character, bnt Mr. Moore is a respectable
and worthy citizen. We hope the perpetrators
of the outrage will be fonnd oat and speedily
brought to justice.
A set of burglar’s tools have been found lying
aronnd loose in Columbus—probably the relics
of the carpet-bag and scalawag regime in that
city.
Judge Speight, an old and greatly respected
citizen of Brooks county, died of heart disease
last Monday.
There is mnch sickness, principally bilious
fever, in Brooks county and the upper portion
of Madison county, Florida. Otherwise, as the
editor of the Quitman Banner, who must be an
Irishman, remarks, tho health of the connty is
good.
Qnitman shipped 6500 bales of cotton last
year, bnt will be satisfied with 2500 this season.
After making this statement the Banner, very
unnecessarily, it seem3 to us, remarks that tho
matrimonial market ‘is distressingly dall.”
Mitchell connty is reported by the Albany
News to have made a good com crop, bnt the
cotton crop is an nnusnally poor ono, and mon
ey painfully scarce.
The Albany News makes some remarks on the
question of impeaching Bnllock which seem to
ns worthy of serious consideration. It says:
Shall Bullock be Impeached?—In onr last wo
figured Senatorial strength to sustain impeach
ment, in the event it shall be deemed policy to
make the effort
Unless charges covering the supposed enor
mous wrongs of his administration, can be sus
tained with clearness and flagrancy by proof
strong as holy writ, it wonld be a losing game.
Wo aro just on the eve of a Presidential cam
paign, and thero is danger of placing a trump
card in the hands of the “heathen chinee.” If
we fail to mako ont a case that will shamo the
cry of persecution and silence the charge of par-
tizan prejudice, wo might have cause to regret
the experiment Success must be hedged and
supported by causes so patent and proof so pos
itive that Radicalism itself shall .shudder and
turn away in ntter disgust, or we shall reap no
good from the victory.
*****
Duty, and not passion or party spite shonld
prompt the Legislature and characterize tho pro-
. ceedings; afid we trust that calm counsels and
J deliberate conclusions will control the matter,
and save us from the consequences of a blun
der. The question is one of the gravest mo
ment, and is well worthy tho thoughtful consid
eration of our wisest and best men. It should
be approached under the sanotity of solemn
dnty, and with a view to the good of the State
and the honor of the people.'
Referring to the question of who shall be
President of the Senate, the Savannah Repub-
ican, of Friday, says: ,. ^ .
Judge Wm. M. Reese, of Wilkes, appears to
have the inside track for President of the Sen
ate. Perhaps no man elected to the body is
better qualified for the post. Of one thing we
are certain, and it is much in his favor—he will
not seek it.
Upon the same subject, the News of same
date, says:
No citizen could be selected better qualified
to fill the position, or in whom the entire people
of the State, of all olases and parties, would re
pose more unbounded confidence.
Norah Johnson, a good looking member of
the colored demi monde of Columbus, suicided
Wednesday night by taking a couple of ounoes
of laudanum. Her lover bad deserted her.
We clip the following items from the Colum
bus Sun of Friday:
Effects of Caterpillars.—About a half
dozen stalks of cotton, gathered from the Rus
sell county plantation of O. S. Shorter, Esq.,
were brought to the cTy yesterday. Every leaf
had bec-n stripped from the plant, and every
sign of a top boll eaten away. The caterpillar
is said to be equally as bad in neighboring
plantations. Caterpillars must be in a hurry or
they will soon be frozen out It was cold
enough last night for frost.
What a Foemeb Columbus Pastob is Doing.
We learn from the Griffin papers that Rev. Dr.
J. H. DeVotie baptised last Sunday twenty-one
persons in the Baptist Church of that place,
and has immersed over forty in the last 30 days.
Since be took charge of the church, about 14
months since, 120 persons have united with it,
over CO by immersion, and the membership is
now in the neighborhood of 400. It may inter
est many of his friends in Golumbns to learn
his success has been so great.
A Short Cbop—Nothing Else.—To show
that this is an exceptional year in every respect,
and that the short receipts are the results of a
short crop and not bocause farmers are holding
back, we give the receipts to the 20th at Colum
bus of every season since the war. In 1865, to
the 20th of September, Columbus had received
1,958 bales; 1866, 374; 1867, 1,711; 1868,
1,334. 1869, 3,735; 1870,2,712; 1871,576.
Hall county raises a whoop over an apple tree
28 years old that measures eight feet in cir
cumference at the ground, and six feet and ten
inches five feet above the gronnd. Also over
an abnormal com stalk thirteen and a half feet
high. They harvested it with a ladder.
Antioch camp meeting, Hall connty, closed
last Monday, withfifty conversions as it nett re
ligious results.
Talbot county farmers are in a blue way, in
deed. The Standard, of Friday, says:
The wet weather has produced a luxuriant
growth of leaves, which keep the bolls contin
ually shaded, causiug them to rot and fall off.
In some fields nearly all the crop is opened.
No top fruitage at all. Cotton is sprouting in
the bolls.
The editor of the Washington Gazette mutfc
be a shockingly irroligious person—at least,
from the trewly loyl standpoint. Hear him on
tho subject of chronic colored revivalism. We
have the same disease over here:
Tho negroes of this town and vicinity are fn
a state of chronic revivalism. For two or three
years past, ever since the two meeting honses
ont in.Freedom Town were built, this disease
has prevailed to a fearful extent. There have
been short intermissions of a month or two at
a time only. Just at present it is raging to an
extent hitherto unknown. It commenced with
an association or something of the kind, which
met here some six weeks ago, at which were all
the niggers in the .world. These revivals are
getting to be'unbearable nuisances, and are
rapidly rendering the already, lazy, trifling crea
tures worse than worthless. They spend their
nights at these meeting houses in tho most ex
travagant orgies, which it is impossible for any
pen to paint, and must he seen and heard to be
appreciated. They spend their days in sleepy
idleness, and those who are in tho employ of
white people, neglect their work worso than
ever. Tiioy hide and sleep more than ha""
time whienbelongs to their employers.
The Savannah Democracy had a mooting
Thursday night for the purpose of organizing,
and otherwise fixing up for the approaching
municipal election, at which the goose must
have hung the reverse of high, to judge from
the following from the Republican, of Friday:
Disgraceful.—Tho conduct at the publio
meeting called for last night, at St Andrew’s
Hall, was the most shameful we ever witnessed
in the city. In fact, tho assembly more resem
bled a beer garden or a drunken orgie, than a
convention of decent, respectable white men
assembled to deliberate on the welfare of a great
city. The rowdies took complete posseseion,
and seemed resolved from the beginning that
no bnsiness should be transacted. A venerable
and most excellent citizen was in tho chair, bnt
they paid not the slightest respect to him or
his authority. His appeals for order were
returned by hoots and yells, until finally,
without putting any question, he delared the
meeting adjourned and the officers left the hall.
A considerable poition of the meeting seemed
opposed to everything, but among those who
went there for business the controversy appear
ed to be narrowed down to tho point whether
the candidates for Aldermen should be nomina
ted directly by the people of the militia district,
in primary meeting assembled for the purpose,
or by a general committee of delegates selected
by all the districts—eleven from each. The wing
in favor of the former proposition seemed re
solved to have their plan or nothing, while that
in favor of the nomination by general commit
tee composed as above, appeared anxious to go
on with the business and decide the issue by a
vote.
Revivals at five or six Methodist and Baptist
churches, in Coweta county, have resulted in
adding one hundred and fifty persons to the
membership of those churches.
Thomas Leeman, who was stabbed a few days
since at Marietta, by D. B. Parks, died last Sat
urday week.
Isham Weaver was convicted in Newton Sn-
perior Court, last week, of hiring a negro who
was nnder contract to another party, and fin6d
$50.
The Constitution, of yesterday, gives us the
following information:
State Road Investigation.—We have been
informed that the following counsel have been
retained and have volunteered in the State Road
investigation. Retained by the Governor:
Henry P Farrow, Attorney General; B. H.
Hill and J. W. H. Underwood. Retained by
Col. Farrow, Attorney General: Gartrell &
Stephens, Lester & Thompson, Wofford & Wof
ford, Col. W. Dabney, GoL Wash Johnson and
John Milledge, Jr.
Retained by tho citizens: Candler & Hill,
Collier & Hoyt, Mynatt & Dell, and Col. L. E.
Bleckley.
Volunteer counsel: Robert Toombs, R. J.
Cowart, Z. B. Hargrove, Solicitor General E. P.
Howell and C. Peeples.
The Chronicle and Sentinel, of Friday, says
the firemen of that city will not bo represented
in the convention that meets here on the 4th of
October. It says:
The Ohief Engineer and the officers cannot
discover any good which will come ont of this
meeting. It is folly to think of having the de
cision reversed, and it is absurd to suggest dis
banding. The firemen are too patriotio to lay
down their arms from spite. The only thing
that can be done, and the only which will be
done, is to have the law amended so asto plainly
except active firemen—not “pay members”
from the performance of jury duty. The Legis
lature will meet on the 1st of November, and a
Dill can be pnt through both houses without
any unnecessary delay. The firemen of Augusta
know that such a bill will be introduced, and we
think that they aro content to wait until their
rights are again protected by the laws of the
State.
Baldwin County Redeemed at Last!—We
take unusual pride and pleasure in announcing
that this historic old connty has at last been
gloriously redeemed from negro rule. At an elec
tion for Tax Colleotor held on Triday, L. N.
Callaway, Democrat, had a majority of 427, over
John T. Arnold, Radical The vote stood 917
for Callaway, to 490 for Arnold.
GRAFT’S BIOGRAPHY.
A Chapter from the Personal History of
Onr President-Ills Accidental Promo
tion by Fremont—His Drunkenness—
Never Forgets a Friend or a Favor.
N- Y. Correspondence of the Missouri Republican.]
In 1854 Lieutenant U. S. Grant was the quar
termaster of the Fourth infantry, stationed at
Vancouver’s Island, on the Pacific coast; Al
fred Pleasanton was lieutenant of dragoons,
and Rufus Ingalls was the quartermaster of the
post. Grant had been addicted to drink to that
extent Wat he had been several times oautioned
by his friends, and he finally, to prevent trouble,
and as a guarantee of future ab3tenence, plao-
ed his resignation in the hands of Colonel
Buchanan, to bo used in case of another dis
graceful spree. Soon after this Grant went to
San Francisco, and while there got on another
“tear,” and overstayed hisleave, being Beduced
by the wonderful temptations and fascinations
of the Occidental city, so noted for its wonder
ful and occidental changes of fortune and life.
When he returned to his post he found, much
to his surprise and mortification, that his dis
sipation had become known, and his resignation
had been forwarded with such an indorsement
as seenred its immediate acceptance.
In due course of timo Grant became a private
citizen. He was now in a bad fix. Impecu
nious, despondent, he tried to drown his sorrows
in the flowing bowl. Pleasonton and Ingalls
were warm personal friends of “Sam” Grant,
and together they “staked” him, so as to enable
him to reach the State via Panama. He pro
ceeded to St. Louis, and there lived the life of
a vagabond of the first water loafing about the
city, alternating between the city and old Dent’s
farm, several miles ont of the city. At this
timo General William S. Hillyer and General
Rawlins were in business together as counsel
lors and attorneys at law, and Grant used to
make their rooms a sort of headquarters, drop
ping in almost every day, and passing honrs
with, his feet cocked on. tho table or a chair, en
joying his inevitable smoke and no less pleasant
chat. In this way the friendship for Rawlins
and Hillyer became cemented, and this accounts
for their selection on Grant’s personal staff
when he became a brigadier-general
Every one knows how Dick Yates, then Gov
ernor of Illinois, took him for his military secre
tary, and afterwards gave him the colonelcy of
an insubordinate regiment which had been tried
by two or three colonels, who were unable to
subdue their riotous and mntinon3 disposition
Grant soon straightened them ont and demon
strated his valne as a disciplinarian. Being sent
to the department of Missouri, then nnder the
command of General J. C. Fremont, Grant was
assigned to General John Pope’s cortupand, and
was the senior colonel in that army. On one
occasion Pope had business away, and Grant,
a3 senior officer, was in the command. On
Pope’s return he found GranfSn hi3 headquar
ters tent, writing and doing such business as
was incident to his command. Pope, with that
brusqueness and discourtesy for which he was
noted, said to Grant that he wished he wonld
do his writing in his own tent and not intrude
himself so much at headquarters. Naturally
indignant, Grant wrathfnlly stepped out and
proceeded to the tent of tho sntler, with whom
he was very intimate, and whose whisky he had
drank ad libitum. To thi3 bosom friend he
penred ont all his woes, and as he sipped Ms
“Bourbon straight,” he vindictively ejaculated:
“ I hope I shall live to see the day when I shall
outrank General Pope!” So outrageous did he
become in bis cups, that Pope finally found it
necessary to send him to St. Louis, with a re
commendation that he should be dismissed for
drunkenness. Although Mr. Lincoln had placed
almost autocratic power in the hands of General
Fremont, he hesitated to dismiss him, and let
his case hang on from day to day, awaiting a
leisure moment to give the matter his personal
attention. Meanwhile Grant loafed abont St.
Louis, neglected, impecunious, and shabby,
dancing attendance at headquarters every day
in the hope of a speedy settlement of Ms diffi
culty.
At this time the enemy were advancing upon
Cape Girardeau, which was then occupied by
new levies, undisciplined, and undrilled, nnder
the command or General Prentiss, of Illinois.
Owing to Prentiss’s want of experience Fremont
deemed it advisable to supercede Mm, but in
the absence of other more experienced officers
the General hardly knew whom to select to
relieve Mm. 'While he was in this quandary a
gentleman occupying a high official position, in
whom Frement had great confidence, called to
see Mm one day. As he passed np staiis he saw
Grant in the hall, sitting on a wooden bench.
Grant’s red face shone over Ms woolen shirt,
dirty and tobacco-stained. He had no collar,
his urnform wa3 greasy and shabby, and alto
gether he presented a miserable and woe-bogono
appearance. The gentleman referred to recog
nized him, and as be shook hands ho asked what
he was doing there ? Grant replied that he wa3
in a little trouble, “and,” said he, “I want you
to help me out.” The difficulty was related by
Grant, and Ms friend said he wonld see what
conld be done, after wMch he passed np stairs
to the presence of the great Pathfinder. During
the conversation, Fremont mentioned the Cape
Girardeau difficulty, and said he did not know
who to send there. “I know the very man you
want,” said onr friend, “I saw Mm down stairs
as I came up.” “Who is he?” inquired Fre
mont. “Why, Sam Grant; he’s just the man;
send Mm down.” Fremont called Ms adjutant
general and asked him what the circumstances
of Grant’s case were, and ho was informed.
“Oh yes, I know,” said the other. “Sam is a
drunkard; bnt he will fight, and be knows how
to do it, too.”
“But,” said Fremont, “they all rank Mm
down there.”
“Send 6very d—d one of them away, and put
Grant in command. He’ll fight, I know.”
So Fremont, somewhat unwillingly, and for
want of a better man, consented to the order
being issned.
On Ms way down stairs Grant’s friend took
him along, and as he entered his buggy he ask
ed Grant where he was stopping.
“Nowhere,” said Grant.
“Where is yonr baggage?” he asked.
“I haven't any,” said Grant.
“That’s a bad lookout; come with me,” and
he took Grant to the Planters’ House, straight
ened him np, got his transportation for him,
and inside of ten honrs, had him started for
Cape Girardeau by special train. As was ex
pected, his seniors kicked against his assum
ing the command. At this time, President
Lincoln was determined in Ms opposition
to the invasion of Kentucky, even though the
enemy were occupying her soil and marching
npon onr forces. He persisted in considering
Kentnoky as nentral ground. As the enemy ad
vanced upon Grant, another General was or
dered by Fremont to cut across a corner of
Kentucky, and cut Mm off from Ms base, while
Grant was to attack him in front This Gen
eral, instead of obeying Ms orders, telegraphed
them to Lincoln, who countermanded them at
onoe. Grant, however, like a true soldier,
obeyed the orders from Ms superior, and ad
vancing into Kentucky, met the enemy and
routed Mm. This laid the foundation of his
military fame, and was the first step on the
ladder by which he reached Ms present proud
position. And here it might be said, en pas
sant, that it is to Fremont that Grant owe3 his
delivery from obscurity, and not, as so many
suppose, to Washburno entirely. The Presi
dent recognizes this fact, and now entertains
the very kindliest feelings for Fremont. Only
a short time ago, at one of the Washington
levees, Grant walked across the room to where
Mrs. Fremont stood, and asked if he might
have the pleasure of tendering to her son, who
stood by her side, a cadetship to West Point,
and adding that he knew of no one whose fami
ly were more justly entitled to it, through dis
tinguished services to tho country. Mrs. Fre
mont called the General to her side and tho ap
pointment was accepted. Tois anecdote is
simply to Bhow the cordiality existing between
them now. Every one who knows the President,
knows that whatever Ms faults may be, he
NEVER FORGETS A FRIEND OB A FAVOB.
As soon as ho became a brigadier-general, he
called to his personal staff the lawyers in whose
office he had been so hospitably treated before
the war, and Hillyer and Rawlins rose to rank
and position as fast as Grant did himself. It was
this old friendship which made Rawlins Secre
tary of War, and wMch created the military ring
wMch now rules the roost. Ingalls, through af
fection, as well as by the force and weight of
his ability, is now the great power beMna the
throne, and the ohief mogul of the military ring.-
Horace Porter, the President’s private secreta
ry, is the constant companion of General Grant
wherever he goes, and he is the faithful watch
dog who guards the approaches to the Executive,
and barks when there is danger to the ring. At
his bay Ingalls harries to the rescue, and the
danger is averted. Pleasanton owed Ms rapid
promotion to Grant’s friendsMp, and Ms eleva
tion to the commissionersMp of internal reve
nue to the influence of Gen. Ingalls, but failing
to acknowledge their supremacy in everytMng,
and unwilling to follow their instructions in cer
tain particulars, he was decapitated with the
same easy nonchalance with which he was pro
moted. Pleasanton can not now said to belong
to the ring, and he is taken np as a martyr by
the opposition, or Greelsy-Fenton x,
party here. Ingalls and the rest have d*
him, and even refuse to recognize him til
The influence of the military ring n,’
every department of the Federal govern^
this city. Honest Tom Murphy was th
cipal organizer of the first Grant carLay! 1 ®
in this city in the summer of 1867. g.. t
time in “shadowing” Porter. Thomas i* 1
great many presents and has a very
manner. He captured Porter and cult
the acquaintance. There was a real esta 1
at Long Branch; MuTphy had some m
John Chamberlin, the prince of gamblers, i
did John Hoey, of Adams Express, who’ J
once the cutest newsboy that ever yell<j'
“extra.” Some way or "another the
got sand witched in between Murphy and &
and it was there, in the “cottage by the™
during the summer of 1869, that Murph,®
Porter went for Moses Gunnell's scalp* f!
nell had famished the sinews of war dnrins
campaign, and being one of the oldest *
chants of the city of New York, felt esc;
his position as colleotor of the port.
George Leet was mustered out of the
States army, August 1, 1870. He was & u ,
Grant’s staff, and was Porter’s intimate ft
and companion. Leet had to be provided
He would have left the army before if Gj
could have been induced to give him the
general order business of the port; but
nell would not. The monopoly of that bu
was a fraud on the merchants of New Toth
Grinnell positively refused. Grinnell wm,
moved, and the first act of Honest Tom nL
bestow the whole monopoly of the general al
of bnsiness npon Leet and Stocking. 0(2
Stocking was another member of the miS
ring, and extremely intimate with Leet
This was the greatest fraud ever perpet
on the importers of New York, and is not _
felt by them, but, through tho increased £
of importation and tho necessary increa^-
price of goods, by consumers all over the c-
try. The general order bnsiness on the £
River had formerly been distributed amoagy
stores at different points, and when a vessel*
discharging general order goods they were k .
to the nearest one of those stores, which *
generally a short distance away, and can> -
could get their loads and get back with
little delay, and he able to “ride” several U
a day, charging at the rate of fifty oents fort, ;
first half mile and one-third more for each si j
sequent half mile. Now, nnder Leet and Stoif!
ing, the business of these six stores is corait
dated into one, and carts are obliged to sy v
hours to get their loads after carting themey \
more than was formerly the case.
Besides this, these military satraps are art- -
cratio and aristocratic. They don’t open tit e
stores tills a. il, and commence handling^
about 8:30, closing about 4 p. H., and leifc
the carmen only a few hours to do their |
ness. "What formerly took twenty minutes j P
do, now takes from an hour to an hour ari"
half. All this has been protested against 1- L
the merchants of New York, and wa3 foresee 3
by Moses Grinnell. It is known to Gere-'
Grant and the military ring, butLeetandStoeii
ing must be taken care of, even though the peo
ple suffer. Thus it i3 seen that the miiiu*
riog hangs, like the “old man of the ee(
around the necks of the pepple, a grievous y
unnecessary burden, costing them miuos
of dollars a year and suoking away the life-bloc:
of onr commercial prosperity, while the Piss
dent and Tom Murphy, Horace Porter and fc
real estate ring at Long Branch ride in tt-i
carriages, play croquet together, and enjoy tit;
otium cum. dig. at their cottages by the sea.
A (Saratoga Scandal.
From the New York Herald.]
The knowing ones among the guests still a
maining at Saratoga are rolling a sweet men.
of scandal nnder their tongues, from vrlaa
much juiceness seems to have been extracted
The parties affected are the wife of a kadi
turfman, who has a large stable of horses at Hi
Springs, and a yonng man who has been sport
ing it in Saratoga daring the past summer. Sh
is young, pretty and vivacious; he gay ml
handsome, and in New York, where ho reside.'
is known as one of those “Broadway statues' i
whose only mission seems to be to lure un®’
peeling victims to destruction. They metoot] 9
morning at the springs; there was a look,
frisk of the handkerchief, and an acquaintance'
ship formed, and in a little while a fallen wo
man and a dishonored husband. The gossip-
talked and their words reached the ears of the
wronged husband. He i3 a cool, determine!
resolute man. He went straight to the “swell,'
charged Mm with Ms crime and demanded cos-
fession. Th& young man denied Ms guilt. “Id
me all” said the other, “or I will kill youc
the spot.” Tho guilty wretch saw in Ms loci
the determination of a man who meant what h
said, and to save Ms wortMess life he told th
story of Ms crime which had undone the hus
band.
The wife was next interviewed—she deniei,
protested, begged, entreated, but confessed it
last. A lawyer was sent for and the properly
which had been presented to her by the husband
was deeded back to Mm. They parted forever.
The next step was an action for divorce, which
is now pending before a referee in the village
It may be mentioned that one of tho sad fea- >
tores of the case is the previous Mstory of the
husband and the effect this blight may have
upon Ms life. Previous to marriage he was a
dissipated, hardened wretch. Mariiage reform
ed Mm—thoughts of Ms wife made him a pru
dent, careful temperate man, though, perhaps,
a too indulgent, petting husband. He is said to
be utterly overwhelmed with grief, and his
friends fear that the disgrace of his wife mij
drive him back to Ms former intemperate course
of life.
From the Louisville Commercial
Terrible E flee is of Drunkenness-.'
Lady fn Xligli Life the Victim.
Yesterday afternoon a gentleman living in an
aristocratic portion of Second street set ofit to
search for his wife, who had been absent fron
home since Saturday. Going into a row of hn!s
located between Walnut and Madison and Bast
Floyd streets, he was filled with unutterable an
guish at finding her in one of those dirty huts,
occupied only by colored people, and evident^
very much intoxicated. All of his efforts to in
duce her to return to her home and to the six
living children with whioh their marriage baa
been blessed were unavailing. The woman en
treated to bo let alone, or else b8 permitted
to go where she would never behold his face
again. She had on her person the sum of
three hundred dollars, wMch she stated would
take her where Bhe pleased. A carriage
was sent to the door, and an officer, whose
assistance was required, went into the house
and finally persuaded her to return to the home
which she had not seen, and perhaps had not
thought of, since Saturday. She was placed in
the carriage, and, in company with the officer>
went back to her family, bnt not without im
ploring to be allowed to go anywhere else. The
appearance of the woman is prepossessing in
every respect—above the average size, she n
splendidly formed, and in afilaent circnm- u
stances. What motive there is for tMs woman j
strange and disgraceful conduct cannot be
guessed. This adds yet another horror to the
long list of crimes from drunkenness. Here »
a woman of personal beauty, Mgh position—®
mother surrounded by her cMldren—dragged
down below the level of a brute, and involving
in her fall husband, children and loving friends-
And all for what ? Let who will, answer.
Mb. Abebnethy is supposed to be addressing
a]dvspeptic American who had applied to him
for medical advice:
“I’ll be hanged,” said he, “if I ever saw s
Yankee that don’t bolt his food whole, like s
boa constriotor. How the devil can you expert
to digest food that yon neither take tho trouble
iodissect nor the time to masticate ? It’s n0
wonder you lose your teeth, for you never use
them; nor yonr digestion, for you overload it!;
nor your saliva, for yon expend it on the «•*»
pets, instead of on your food. It’s disgusting;
it’s beastly. You Yankees load yonr stomachs
as a Devonshire man does Ms cart, as full as u
can hold, and as fast as he can pitch it in with
a dung-fork, and drive off; and then you com
plain that such a load of compost is too heaU
for you. Dyspepsy, eh? Infernal guzzling, y® 0
mean. I’ll tell you what, take half the time -°
eat that you do to drawl out your words, cbe*
your food half as much as you do your filthy
tobacco, and you'll be well in a monte.”
Judge MGcee, of California, notwithstanding
the synchronous presence in California, of Mm-
Fair, Mrs. Staunton, and Miss Anthony, in tc e
same State—has recklessly decided that '‘worn® 1
is not a ‘person’—she is so physically, but ac
cording to law she is notand that consequent
ly she conld not vote under the Fourteenth
Amendment. There is a slight conflict here
with tee Nebraska Judge’s deoision, that womau
could vote anywhere in tee United States.
A householder in Florida, in filling up In®
census sohedule, under the heading “where
born” described one of hi* cMldren as “born in
the parlor,” and the other “upstairs.” A stnet
return.
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