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TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER V. 1873.
The Telcgfrapli and Messenger.
One week ago we put this old paper in
a new dress at considerable expense to
ourselves. It takes at least a ton and a
quarter of costly type to complete this
operation, and the most remarkable thing
about this purchase is that it was all
made for us in London, England, at the
celebrated type foundry of J. Figgins—
being ordered through Messrs. Geo. P.
Sowell & Co., of New York, their agents
in this country. It is very clear and
handsome type, and the whole great va
riety and bulk of it came through packed
in metal boxes inclosed in wood—safely
—without a letter missing, so far as we
are ut present advised, except some of
the printers contend there is a deficit in
tlie letter * in one font, but we tell them
to wait and sec, or count the number of
r’s used in composition and learn how
rery few go a great ways.
Now we bought this English type, not
because it is any better than American
type, but just to save money—it is cheaper.
That is to say, a man can pay the exorbit
ant protective duties exacted on foreign
type, and still find the type cheaper than
the protected American type. It is not a
beautiful illustration of the workings of a
high strained protective system that, at
the bust, it is practically destructive of
the very industry it is designed to protect.
True, the law prescribes a heavy boun
ty on American type to be paid by the
citi/.i-n who presumes to buy type not
manufactured in But the law
also provides a similar bounty on the
met ds which compose the type—the
tools, machinery and appliances with
which it is m de; and then, too, as the
Inevitable result of this false and vicious
.ystem, tlie cost of production is increased
n every other particular, till at last
he lounty is more than off-set, and the
oreign manufactured article staggers in
nth all the legal burdens on its shoulders
®d in spite of them.
So it is that foreign types are bought
now. when undera light duty nobody ever
thought of buying them. So it is, that
foreign books have become almost as com
mon in American marts as American
books, while before the war it was hard
to find a foreign book on the shelves of
an American bookseller. And if the coun
try will only continue this silly bnsiness
long enough, it will confuse and break
down the whole range of American man
ufactures. .
But this is a digression. We are ex
tremely grateful to the Georgia press for
their kind and very complimentary notices
of tlie paper in its new apparel. We have
made no allusion to the matter heretofore
from an extreme aversion to the system
of self-puffing which has become too fash
ionable of late among a portion of the
press, and which, as Mr. Toombs would
Bay. absolutely fatigues public disgust.
But we are rejoiced to say that the Tele-
GR.U-U lias a good many friends and read
ers, mid was never in a more prosperous
oondition.
Some of our most valued patrons say
they regret the change of type and the
loss of much of the distinctive peculiar
ity in the appearance of the paper. Let
such remember that although the type
could easily be rood when it was aban-
doned, it would have been soon past that
condition. It had been four years in con
stant use printing ten editions a week,
and was pretty thoroughly worn out. A
change soon was inevitable, and it is not
graceful to be forced into anything—
even into a new dress. We trust as the
eyes of our readers become again famil
iar with the new lineaments, they will
turn toward the old journal as heartily
as ever; and we shall strive to make it
worthy of their affection.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
The Americas Republican reports much
sickness in that place, caused, it sup
poses, by the extremely warm weather,
Con. J. V. Price, one of the leading
citizens of Americus, was reported in a
dying condition on Wednesday night.
Forty-four bales of cotton had been
received at Americus up to Wednesday
night, against one hundred and fifty up
to the same date last season.
The Americus Republican tells the fol
lowing :
A few Sundays since a colored clergy
man requsted his sisters of the congrega
tion not to use their fans during service,
“as it breshed de goodness of God from
dere souls, and leff nothin* but de black,
stinkin* debbil shinin’ on dere faces.”
The last “local splinter” whacked off
by the chopper of the Columbus Enqui
rer, is “that prairie hens are worth $2 50
per dozen in Iowa.” That “Local Splin
ter” column is one of the most compre
hensive things, going.
Professor H. W. Battue, of Union
Springs, Ala., has been elected principal
teacher of the Columbus male school, vies
Professor Fuller, resigned.
The Constitutionalist has this very
reliable item:
Handsome New Dress.—The Macon
Telegraph and Messenger has donned
a handsome new dress, of striking typo
graphical beauty. The Telegraph is
now one of the handsomest, as well as one
of the best dailies published in the South.
We congratulate our cotemporary upon
this evidence of its deserved prosperity.
Mr. R. K. Gunn was found dead near
the track of the Brunswick and Albany
railroad, at Sweat’s Saw Mill, on Monday
i 'We find the following in the Savannah cues, and other such weapons as were
■ News: ! convenient. Bad it not been for the ef-
1 £ Convenient Seat for Passenger j forts of Mr. Connor, the proprietor of the
1 Cars. The new car seat for passenger j saloon, to keep the peace, a fightrwould
coaches has recently been patented and '
{ successfully tested, and will no donbt be
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generally adopted, in fact we expect to
‘ see them before long, in the handsome
j cars of the Central and Gulf railroads.
| They are cheap, convenient and comfort-
! able, and what more could be desired by
a railroad official or tbe traveling public.
, The cushions rest on a wooden frame,
to which is attached eight springs, and
so arranged as to accommodate the seat
to the movement of the car, as well as to
the motion of the person occupying it.
One of the peculiarities of the seat con
sists in the fact that each passenger oc
cupies his part without incommoding his
neighbor.
Mr. Gray, second mate of the British
ship Marlborough, now lying in Savan
nah, fell a distance of twenty-five feet
into the hold of that vessel on Wednes
day, and would have been instantly
IrilWl had not his right leg struck a bar
rel and broken his fall. As it was, the
leg was broken.
Two Savannah negroes quarreled over
five cents while gambling on Wednesday,
and one of them named Norman, stabbed
the other, Williams, just below tbe left
lung, with a huge knife. It*is supposed
Williams will die.
‘ We clip these items from the Columbus
Sun of yesterday:
Not Decided.—Capt. J. F. Pou, one
of the counsel for the defense, is of the
opinion that the MiltQn Malone case was
not decided by the Supreme Coqrt on
Tuesday. Certainly it was not delivered.
The report is that the decision will he
announced next Tuesday.
The Reported Duelo.—Rumor yes
terday hardly mentioned it. The At
lanta parties are said to have gone
down the river. The Alabama gentle
men were in Columbus certainly after
dinner. There is a report concerning
The Carolina Cofton Crop.
Passengers, we are sorry to say, report
that all that fine cotton crop we saw six
weeks ago on tbe Augusta and Wilming
ton road, which at that time promised
better than any equal area of cotton we
had seen in Georgia is gone up—ruined.
The rust has taken it, and little or noth
ing is to be seen now but dry sticks white
with prematurely opened cotton, which
will yield say about a bale to ten acres,
of an indifferent lint. The rust has been
as destructive as caterpillar could possi
bly have been. This is haid on the Car
olinians; but we are glad to say that
n the same region the yield of corn was
abundant.
A Railway Livery Establish
ment.
General McClellan is general manager
of a company just established in New
York, which is called the United Rolling
Stock Company, and might be denomina
ted a railway livery establishment. It
builds and buys, and keeps ready to loan
such rolling stock ns railway companies
may need, such as locomotives, passenger
cars, baggage cars, freight cars, cool cars,
etc. A railway company just established,
which has not the means to stock its road,
properly, may have locomotives and cars
to any extent from this novel corporation,
which l.as, or shortly will have, over one
hundred locomotives ready for use, and
ears ad libitum. The capital is placed at
$5,000,000, and good dividends from its
operations are considered certain.
Indictment of Gen. Babcock.—Un
der the head of “The Saddest Revelation”
the New York Sun prints a communica
tion from Washington, charging Gen.
Babcock specifically, as engineer of the
Board ofQPablic Works in Washington,
with gross frauds in the measurement of
the work and certification of hills for
grading; which, in. one case, make a
charge of $8,702 46, where the just one
would have-been only $1,317. Truly, the
white Washingtonians are a spoiled gen
eration. There is everybody to prey upon,
and none to deliver them.
The Milwaukee (Wis.,) Sentinel—
Shacknasty organ—having Baid “that it
was the settled practice of the Republi
can party to cast out its evil doers,” the
New York Sun caSually remarks “Jess
so,” Credit Mobilier and Back-Pay Grab
ber Bingham was cast out to Japan with
$10,000 a year, and that’s the way most
of the casting out is done.
The New York Sun says “the corres
pondence between Governor Smith and
ex Governor Johnson, of Georgia, has not
yet ended, and is becoming less meta
physical and more human in tone. They
may fight yet.”
oniin^i
Mr Geo. Collier, of Albany, died a
few days since. The Rev. U. C. Tigner,
a local minister of the Methodist church,
died very suddenly in Talbot county last
Monday night.
The hat store of Mr. C. B. Ash, on
Congress street, Savannah, was burned
Wednesday night, causing a loss of
$1,000 on the building. The stock—val
ued at $15,000—was badly damaged, but
was insured for $7,000.
The saw mill of H. M. Little, at Ock-
locknee Station, on the Atlantic and
Gulf road, was burned last Monday. Loss
$4,000, and no insurance. This is tbe
third time Mr. L. has been burned out.
Muscadines sell at Albany for five
cents per quart. Each quart is said to
contain at least four dozen chills.
Voodooism in Talbot County.—The
Talbotton Standard is responsible for tbe
following:
Some few weeks ago Dr. J. H. Bryan,
of Bellevue, was called to see a colored
boy in the Yallev of Talbot, whom he
found pretty low with a well developed
case of typhoid fever. This excellent
physician immediately prescribed for the
hoy. and in a few days he was up, walk
ing about the yard. About this time a
negro root doctor appeared and adminis
tered a dose of his best, which threw the
convalescent once more upon his couch
where he continued to grow worse. The
negroes in that quarter became alarmed
and sent for Dr. Bryan again, but that
gentleman refused to go. Then, this
‘yerb” conjurer, aforesaid, gathered all
the negroes around and told them that
the boy was “tricked” by a negro girl to
whom he was engaged to be married, and
who lived on a neighboring plantation;
so, the father of the girl was sent for and
requested to bring her with him. The
old man obeyed the summons promptly,
but, from some cause, he did not take his
daughter with him. When he appeared
the crowd of negro men who were await
ing him, closed in on him and the old
root doctor grabbed him by tbe collar,
run a knife across his throat and swore
that he would kill him. The other ne
groes, being wrought upon by their
superstitions, were perfectly wild, and it
seemed that the poor darky would be ut
terly annihilated, every minute. He
finally got away from them and made
tracks for home, closely pursued. No
one has ever known a negro to run like
he did; in common parlance, “ he fairly
got up and dusted.” He out run two
horses, swam two creeks, knocked
over 50 panels of fence ten rails
high, run two miles down the bed of a
branch and fell fainting in his cabin door.
His pursuers followed him nearly home,
two of whom were on horses. This is
the story of the witchery as told to his
heathenish followers by the old root doc
tor. He says the girl has a lock of the
sick hoy’s hair, which she has wrapped
around an old rusty nail. She lias
driven this nail in a tree and every time
she wants her betrothed to grow worse
she drives the nail in a little further.
The negro man who was assaulted had
the root doctor arrested. He was tried
by a Justice Court in the Valley on Mon
day, brought to this place yesterday and
committed to jail.
Major Isham Thompson, an old and
much respected citizen of Augusta, died
on "Wednesday, aged 72 years. He was
one of the most prominent merchants of
Eastern Georgia in the days when all
that section traded by wagons with Au
gusta.
New corn is selling at seventy-five
cent3 per bushel at Thomasville—new
meal $1 25.
The Thomasville Enterprise has the
following:
The Macon daily Telgraph and Mes
senger comes to us this week with a new
and elegant head, and the whole body of
the paper remodeled and re-invigorated.
Its new columns look refreshing, and the
matter they contain is refreshing. The
Telegraph is one of the best journals in
the South and deserves the large patron
age it receives,
The Albany Central City makes these
sensible remarks on the same subject:
The Macon Daily Telegraph and
Messenger.—This great Georgia Daily
has recently undergone a typographical
transformation, rendering it one of the
most perfect specimens of the “art pre
servative of all arts,” we know of. The
new head and general make-up cor
responds with our ideal of a newspaper.
It certainly is unsurpassed in the South.
The Tel. and Mess, deserves its unpar-
aleled success. “May its shadow never
grow less.”
Religious revivals axe going on in the
Baptist Churches at Morgan, Calhoun
county, and at Brown’s Station and Chick-
asawhatchie, in Terrell county. At the
former place there have been thirty-two,
and at Brown’s Station eleven accessions
to the Church.
The Cartersviilo Standard and Express
says:
Mr. Peter Marsh states that he received
at his store, in this place, four barrels of
oil, the freight on which from Charleston
to Atlanta, a distance of 310 miles, was
$6 46. From Atlanta to Cartersville, a
distance of 48 mile3, the freight was $7 64.
So that while the distance from Charles
ton to Atlanta is nearly seven times the
distance from Atlanta to Cartersville, yet
the charge on freights from Atlanta to
Cartersville is much greater than that
from Charleston to Atlanta. This, it is
stated, is bnt a sample of the unequal and
unjust freights to which our people are
subjected. If railroad officials and hold
ers of lessee shores will not do the people
jnstice, will not the next Legislature take
this matter in hand, and not allow the
road, built by the people’s money, to be
so managed as to tyrannize over them ?
The Rev. J. M. Strong, of Savannah,
has accepted a call to St. Stephens (Epis
copal) Church,at Milledgeville.
correspondence between two of the sec
onds, so-called.
The Chronicle and Sentinel did not come
to time yesterday morning, as usual. It
made its appearance, however, in the
afternoon, with the remark that the Ma
con Telegraph and Messenger has ,a
handsome new dress and that it is one of
the best papers in the South.” We’ll
rub out the “tardy” mark, this time.
What Rome Thinks,—The Courier’s
last is even fuller of solid chunks of wis-
ngn
have certainly ensued there. Mr. P. then
left the billiard-room in the company of
Mr. Richard Clarke. Here the accounts
differ a little, but tho following details
are corroborated by the majority of the
narrators: Thornton, accompanied by
two friends, approached Pemberton, who
was standing in the vicinity of the cigar
stand, renewed the dispute, which was
entered into by the whole party. Clarke
warned Thornton to he careful about the
language he used to Pemberton. Mr.
Thornton then asked Clarke what he had
to do with it, and followed the inquiry
with a gross insult. The consequence
was that the words were scarcely uttered
before they hitched. As they came to
gether Clarke inflicted a very ugly wound
with a pocket knife, cutting a deep gash
through the mnscle of Thornton’s arm,
just above the elbow. The parties were
then separated. Mr. T., whose arm was
bleeding profusely, was carried into Pull
man & Low’s drug house, and Dr. West
moreland called" in to dress the wound.
After examining tne wound and attend
ing to the wants of the wounded man,
Dr. W. stated that nothing serious could
possibly result from the cut.
The same paper says that Mr. Phillips
and his party from that city, who have
gone to Florida on an affair of honor,
were at Neal’s Landing on Wednesday,
but that Col. Waddell and his friend? had
not arrived up to that time. The Phil-*
lips party will remain in Florida until to
day, when, if the other side do not make
their appearance, they will return to
Georgia.
Col. L. E. Bleckley, of Atlanta, con
tradicts a statement made by a corres
pondent of the Constitution that trout
are not found “in any Atlantic waters of
Georgia.” He says be has often caught
mountain trout in the upper tributaries
of Warwoman’s creek, a Rabun county
stream, and that they have always been
found there.
A perfectly white crow has turned up
in Harris county.
* The doctors in Hamilton, Harris county,
offer ten per cent, premium to their first
A week’s revival m the Baptist Church
at WaymansviUe, Upson county, termi
nated 'last Sunday with twenty-three
accessions to the church.
The Thomaston Herald says the peach
trees of that section are full of rotten
fruit. They are perfectly black, but still
remain on the trees.
The Griffin News says Mr. Fred. E.
Waddy, who was raised in that place, and
who was connected with tho Macon and
Western road for "many years, died at
Charlotte, N. C., a few days since.
dom than usual, as the following shows: j patient who will pay up his account for
The Macon Telegraph and Messen- this year.
Col. Thomas B. Long, special agent of
• A Sockdolager.
The result in California, so far as Grant
and his particular friends are concerned,
is better described by this word than any
wo know. Such a “facer” has not been
delivered since his first election. The
whole power of the administration, and
one of the most powerful corporations in
the country was thrown into the contest
against the people, and the people have
well-nigh demolished both. Sargeant,
the Radical Senator from California, who
is owned jointly by the Central Pacific
railroad and the administration, had carfe
blanche to spend what he pleased, and use
what power he pleased to force the rail
road ring ticket through, but the people
have arisen in their might and laid out
him and his masters cold as a wedge.
California has been redeemedfrom the joint
thralldom of a Radical and railroad ring,
and henceforth, whether she ranges her
self under Republican or Democratic ban
ner, will certainly not submit to be ruled
and plundered by a coalition of railway
tyrants and slavish tools of the Grant ad
ministration. She has broken the chains
with which they have bound her for so
' many years, and will henceforth command
| where she has hitherto obeyed.
| The issues of the late canvass were
j clearly defined and very simple. They
’ were, whether the Central Pacific rail-
j raad—a gigantic and relentless monopoly
in close alliance with the Federal admin-
| istration—should continue to own and
plunder the people of California. The
Democrats and such Republicans as Gov.
Booth, said no—the railroad and the ad
ministration said yes. Gov. Booth was a
candidate for the Senate, and made the
geb.—This sterling old Georgia journal
comes to us in a new dress, presenting a
much improved appearance, and such a
clean, live and cheerful look that it is a
real gladness to see. Its typography
now is equal in excellence to its sterling
news and editorial matter; and all com-
t^^uto. ak< lYe ne congratuSfe P ^iETprlr the following. We move a vote of thanks Booth will win, provided Senator Casserly
prietors upon this evidence of their de- to the Col. for this much-needed moni- (Deni.), now holding the seat, can not
the Postoffice Department, has recently ®8^*t as champion and leader of the oppo-
written a letter to the postmaster at sition. railroad and administration
Grantville, of whom complaint had been candidate for the same position was Geo.
j made for non-delivery of newspaper mat- ®* Gorham, at present Secretary of the
ter from his office, from which we extract Federal Senate. From appearances, now,
Rome
served success.
A Remarkable Dream.—Tlie
Commercial tells this story:
Mr. T. S. Cox, a resident of Macon,
visiting Rome, had a most remarkable
dream last Sunday night. He was in
this office Monday morning and repeated
it at that time about as follows: He
dreamed that his house in West Macon,
occupied by his wife and family, was en
tered Sunday evening and a certain bu
reau drawer robbed of some silver ware,
tion:
muster sufficient strength to be his own
successor. That cannot yet be ascertained
—though we see the Democrats have
made gains in the Legislature. But
whether he does or not, the solid fact re
mains that the people of California have
beaten the railroad and the administra-
Heail Centre of Georgia,
There is now no doubt that Maoon is
the Grand Head Centre—the beginning
and the ending, and the middle of the
State of Georgia—in trade, politics,
finance, civilization and every other ation
which can entitle a community to pre
eminence. For this reason, everv “live”
journal in the State now finds it necessa
ry to rent a room and organize a Bureau
of intelligence here, to flash by-lightning
to all other comparatively unimportant
points, the grand events and conceptions
which originate at this great local ■centre.
There are already three of these Bureaus,
and more are coming, since without in
telligence from Macon, contemporaneous
with the moment of publication, a Geor
gia newspaper is literally nothing.
This practical concession of the tran
scendent importance of Macon, as the
great centre of thought, intelligence,
trade and financial power in the State of
Georgia, is susceptible of no misinterpre
tation and cannot be overestimated. No
bureau of any outside paper was ever es
tablished in the villages of Atlanta, Au
gusta, Savannah and Columbus. Nobody
ever conceived the idea of daily telegraph
ing the local news from any of those
points—simply by reason of the fact that
the local news elsewhere is only of mere
local importance. But everything local
in Macon, by reason of her prominent
character and central position, is of deep
interest and importance all over the State,
and hence papers not printed here must
have their agents kept on the ground at
great expense, ready to catch up every
item, from Benner’s bear, or a runaway
dray, to a bawling pickaninny with the
nose bleed, and send it on the wires all
ovhr Georgia. In the light of this cir
cumstance what must be the future of
Macon? Evidently she is the supreme
hub—the centre upon which everything
must revolve hereafter forever. Glory he
to praise.
Florida News.
1 do not consider it irrevelant to call
your attention to the close business rela
tionship which exists between the Post-
office Department and the Press. It is
certainly very anoying to gentlemen who
invest their time, money and talent in i . • • T e ii. . , ,
. , , J, * ! tion rin<r. If the Democrats are to lose
attempting to develop the resources of n , ,, . , .... , ,
their respective localities to tod that for
wantofpromptness onthe part of those ors . If Democracy “has not
TrV? 4 achieved a victory, Grant’s administra-
and that a woman committed the theft, and talent of the first order to prepare tl0n , an f * most odious and insolent mo-
that she was a dark-complexioned, dark- j for the public eye, are carelessly over- ? opoly ha ^ e Waterloo defeat. So
haired, blue eyed woman, and a stranger looked, or not delivered until the time far ®?K°° <1 - Out of this rout there can
to him. Yesterday morning he received has passed, when good could have been tbe to
a letter from his wife confirming his i obtained by their perusal. The manu- f t5 i? 4 to th D
dream, and that a package of silver 1 factoring, mercantile, agricultural, and , 001:1410 party of the Union.
spoons was stolen from the bureau drawer in fact, all business suffers by such care- 1 . I m
sometime during Sunday afternoon. A lessness, and I trust, hereafter, you will, MUSIC ana Tomatoes anti Mr.
description of the suspected party was not allow the patrons of your office to " Forceps.
a!so given which coincided with his , complain if in your power to prevent it. From the Danbury NcwsJ
dream. This is no fancy sketch. The | The Joint Committee on Water Works
dream was repeated to us early Monday ! . . . . ,, , , _
morning and the letter from Mrs. Cox appointed by the Atlanta City Council,
was received yesterday morning.
Those of our readers acquainted on
Monson street will remember that the
reported the following resolution on Fri- f°° 4 ° 4 ^®f* Forceps saloon adjoins his
ers T have A Staff tto City SiunTtorS' ! ** WWch ad< * tod: ! One^f these is in Mr. Forceps’'
000 in bonds, and the Council fLorthe ! th ^ t ° lvoJ to^Board of 4his . roof . Mr3 * F ?. roe P* , has
rpi the city of Atlanta, that the Board of spread hesitating tomatoes, with a view
fS to a spS committee i ? Vat f Commissioners be, and they are to hastening thefe ripeness. LastWednes-
Thb Hawkinsville Dispatch reports hereby authonzed, to issue for and in be- day she put five more with their fellows,
died within the p^st week? 50 SW ° V ® j Bonds,” to the amount of three hundred named HaU, of Thomastown. She had
n- , . thousand dollars for the purposes and made the acquaintance of many of our
Woods, of the Dispatch, has been to t he terms as specified in in act of young people^ and on Wednesday night
New York! and tells how he and his the Legislature, “entitled an act, to an- several of them got togethertogiveher
crowd were received when they handed ^horize the Mayor and Council of the city a serenade. Providing themselves with
roin t e steamer and started for a hotel. 0 f Atlanta to provide for the introduction all the requisite instruments, the young
. : - . , , - , t of water works in said city, and for other people took up a position near this add£
About nine o clock we reached New p Urposes —which act was approved Sep- • tion we speak of, and struck up on the
York and gat ering our baggage, pro- tember 23. 1870,” and recommend its j instruments. Mrs. Forceps was first
adoption. awakened by the music, and nudged her
The Savannah News tells this story: husband. He also woke. The music
A baggage agent belonging to the Shite ! 7™ f^and-not loud or_ _coarse, but soft,
Road die<l recently in Atlanta. The at- I low ’ 01,4 harmonious.
ceeded in search of a hotel. I will con
fess we acted a little “uncity” like. Mr.
Ferguson wanted to show the crowd to
the hotel, and each one wanted to be
ahead of the other. In this style we were
rushing along the streets when a small
boy appeared from under a gas light and
shoutedat the top of his voice that “some
lunatic asylum had busted.” There was
hut one ready-loaded pistol in the crowd,
and it wa3 thought best to let the hoy
live. But if we ever meet him down our
way, we have all determined to settle his
hash bill.
Auricular Confession.—Rev. Thos.
K. Beecher, brother of Henry "Ward
Beecher, has created no little stir among
the Congregational brethren in New York
by an elaborate essay in one of the lead
ing religious weeklies in justification and
advucacy of auricular confession. A few
years ago the Congregationalists were
afraid this reverend gentleman was going
to turn Episcopalian. Now they are a
little apprehensive that he is going be
yond ritualism even, if not to Catholi
cism itself. Among other things of the
same kind Mr. Beecher says » “If it were
the habit of a man to go to some reverend
and trusted man of God once in two
months and unbosom himself truthfully,
can any sane man doubt that he would
receive a benefit? * * * Penitence
of sins is usually much deepened when a
fellow-man knows of it.”
Mb. D. H. VanBuren, freight clerk in
the office of the Southern Express Com
pany, in Augusta, has been appointed lo
cal agent at that city of the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad, vice
Captain R. H. "Wvlly resigned.
The Germans of Augusta have organ
ized a German school with Mr. G. Os-
teroh as principal*
Among the latest items of Columbus
"society news” is the marriage, on Thurs
day, of Miss Rebecca D. Chappell, daugh
ter of the Hon. Absalom H. Chappell, and
Mr. J. H. Toomer, of Norfolk, Va.
The City Light Guards of Columbus
have just received their arms—fifty
breech-loading Springfield muskets—from
Atlanta; also one thousand rounds of
Slank, and nine thousand rounds of ball
cartridge.
The Columbus Sun hears that a hand
some and accomplished married lady of
that city has written a novel which is
soon to be published by a New York
house. Competent critics give it “un
qualified praise.”
Mrs. Larkin DaVis, of Atlanta, died
on Friday night. On Sunday night she
lost an infan- son, fourteen months old.
A. Stabbing Affray at the Kimball
House.—"We find the following in the
Atlanta Herald, of yesterday:
Onyester 'ay afternoon, about 2 o’clock,
a difficulty in front of the H. I. Kimball
House between Mr. Richard Clark of this
city, and Mr. Thornton, who is attending
Mcore’s Business College, of this place.
The fight resulted in Mr. Thornton re
ceiving a very painful but hot dangerous
wound in the right arm. The quarrel
originally commenced between Mr. Chas.
Pemberton and Mr. Thornton. The dif
ference arose from a bet made on a game
of billiards. Pemberton claimed, after
the bet was lost, that it was mode in jest,
and Mr. Thornton insisted on the pay
ment of it. A dispute was entered into,
and a good deal of abusive language
used, especially by Mr. T. The belliger
ents armed themselve with billiard balls,
taclies of the road made provision for his
burial expenses, furnishing, among other
things, k nice suit of black broadcloth in
which to dress the corpse. His wife ob
jected to having “those fine clothes buried
in the ground,” and brought out some of
her husband old apparel, in which he was
prepared for the sepulture. The follow
ing Sabbath the bereaved wife’s brother
wore the clothes furnished by tho dead
man’s companions, to church.
Frank P. Lynch, of Savannah, had one
of his little fingers cut off, and the third
finger of the same hand terribly lacerated
by a revolving saw, on Tuesday. The
severed finger was afterwards found in
the middle of the street, where it had
been thrown by the force of the saw.
The Columbus Enquirer has determined
to stop “elemosynaiy advertising and
dead-heading,” and proceeds to remark:
It is not only the gratuitous work a
newspaper man has to do, but the gratu
itous advice as to his business which he
receives that makes his business as de
lightfully easy as it is negatively profita
ble. Every man who can read a newspa
per without spelling the long words aloud,
imagines God gave him peculiar talents
for newspaper editing, and as he invaria
bly has no newspaper, he generally re
fuses to place his light under a bushel,
so he hunts up the nearest editor and lets
loose his verbal bosh or hands over his
strictures on your last editorial, while
he hints that your daily paper free for a
year will be trifling compensation for the
privilege of printing Ms twaddle. We
are always glad to have correspondence,
particularly from the planters and those
who have something new to say, no mat
ter how plainly they say it, but we are
not spoiling for political articles or ped
antic criticisms. -
On Saturday, the 30th of August, Miss
Sadie Carter, of Madison, died, and in
less than one hour her sister, Miss Nannie
Carter, followed heir—both dying of con
gestion, the result of bilious fever. They
were sick only a week.
For an opinion “as is an opinion,”
commend us to the Thomaston Herald,
and here’s the proof. It says:
Telegraph and Messenger. — The
Macon Telegraph and Messenger is
clothed, this week, in new type, and bna
a beautiful heading. It has been en
larged and in every way improved. We
regard the Telegraph and Messenger
as one of, if not the best paper in the
State.
The LaGrange Reporter also shows
evidence of sound judgment and fine
taste on the same subject. It sayB :
The Macon Telegraph and Messen
ger.—This staunch old daily comes to us
in a new dress. As an indication of pros
perity, we are glad to note this, for the
Telegraph and Messenger is inferior to
no paper in the State and superior to
some which moke much greater preten
sions. Years ago, when we were a little
hare-footed hoy, we used to go to the of
fice of publication every week (there was
no daily in Macon then) and get the Geor
gia Telegraph. We have been a con
stant reader of the paper ever since then,
and have come to regard it with a feeling
akin to affection—a feeling which we
have for no other paper. Iti senior edi
tor writes the best-natured editorials in
the world; ho is the first editor wo ever
read after. Gentlemen of the Telegraph
Mr. Forceps was
very much pleased, and got up to the win
dow to hear it. Then Mrs. Forceps got up
also, and retying her night cap, stood be
side Mr. Forceps. “They’re serenading
Ellen,” said she. “I know it,” said For
ceps. “Who can they be ?” she asked. “I
don’t know, I’m sure,” said he; “but I
suppose I could soon find out if I could
creep out on the roof and look over.”
“Why don’t you ?” said she, her curiosity
increasing. “I’m afraid they might see me,’
he said. “I don’t think they would,” she
said, “They would’nt be looking up on
the roof, would they?” Mr. Forceps
thought a moment, and then concluded no
one could see him, as the moon had gone
into a bank of clouds, and objects were
quite dim. And then he softly opened the
blind and cautionsly crept out on the shin
gles, completely encased in red flannel un
derclothes, and anight-cap of the samerieh
material. The music still continued, com
ing up through the night air in waves of
ecstatic harmony. Mr. Forceps sat down
on the roof and laboriously worked his way
to the eaves. Then he lifted himself up to
turn over and look down, and just then
he stepped on something soft and yield
ing, felt his feet give, made a desperate
clutch at the shingles, was too late, gave
a piercing shriek, and shot off the roof and
went revolving and howling in among the
hand, followed by the tomatoes, and mad
ly cleaving the air with his red-flanneled
limbs. He struck with his hack on the
bass viol, and with one leg tore the en
trails from an accordeon, and with the
other knocked all the keys from a silver-
mounted flute. The man who played the
bas3 viol was driven- senseless into a pile
of pea brush, and the flute-player, with
his mouth full of blood and splinters,
S ped over the fence and fled. '(That
me of the others Mr. Forceps does
not know, he being too busily engaged in
getting on his feet and into the house to
make a critical examination of the field.
It is presumed the bass viol man died on
the spot, and was surreptitiously removed
and buried by his companions, as there
was no sign of him about the premises in
the morning.
Calls on
Gen. Breckinridge
Grant. .
The Long Branch correspondent of the
New York Tribune of Monday, writes as
follows:
Gen. John C. Breckinridge spent a few
days here during tho past week, and at
tended the races. He called, as a mat
ter of courtesy on President Grant, whom
he had not seen since the Mexican war,
where they were fellow officers and very
intimate. Although Gen. Breckinridge
has been frequently in Washington since
the close of the war, he did not think it
would be delicate for him to visit the
President in the Executive Mansion, Ho
was accompanied to the President’s cot
tage by Mr. John Hoey, and spent a por
tion of the evening in very agreeable con
versation. Senator Frelinghuysen was
present, and others dropped in during
the evening to pay their respects. No
allusion, whatever, was mode to the Into
war, and tho part taken by either of the
two gentlemen. The President greeted
Mr. Breckinridge very kindly, and re
ferred to the last time they met, which
was, I believe, when Grant was slightly,
wounded in one of the Mexican engage
ments. They called up old memories and
old friends, and traced the latter into af
ter life.. There is hut a, year’s difference
in tho ages of the two gentlemen, Gen,
Grant being 52 and Gen. Breckinridge 51.
and Messenger, may you live long—very j The latter took his leave in about an hour,
long—and prosper. receiving an invitation to call again.
Caterpillar in Jefferson.—TheMon-
ticello Advertiser says: “Paris Green is
saving many a boll of cotton in Leon
county, and in our own, we are hearing
good reports from it. A number of our
planters are trying it on a small scale
with satisfaction. They were not any too
soon, as the latter part of last week a
large crop of worms was developed, and
are doing much damage, and no mistake.
What makes it worse, the boll worm has
done and is doing great hurt. Some
large plantations are swept, and a de
struction of half the crop is certain.”
We hear, says the Floridian, from private
sources, that in portions of Jefferson, in
the neigh orhood of Waukbeenah and
the Aucilla, there are several large plan
tations where the caterpillar b aa scarcely
even appeared.
Cotton, says the Floridian, is com
mencing to come in right pertly now.
Twenty-six bales were received at the
depot for shipment last Friday. In con
sequence, everything begins'to brighten
up. But wouldn’t everybody have been
in clover this winter if it hadn’t been for
the miserable caterpillar? It almost
makes one sick to think of it.
A joint stock company has been or
ganized in Jacksonville, for the "establish
ment of a city laundry. It is thought it
will pay well.
Large Pumpkin.—An old colored wo
man in Madison county has raised
pumpkin this year weighing one hundred
and fifteen pounds!
Orange Culture.—The orange culture
is very encouraging. Twenty-five hun
dred dollars have beenrealizedinone sea
son, from a single acre on the St. Johns
river. There is no finer fruit than the
Florida orange in perfection, The pres
ent year will doubtless produce tbe largest
yield ever known on the St. Johns. In
proof of which we cite the following from
the Palatka Herald: “The growth'of tho
orange this summer is startling—never
was there anything like it. Owners of
orange groves at a distance will be aston
ished when they return in the winter and
find the advance of their golden invest
ments. This rapid growth of orange
groves this summer is attributed to the
uniform regularity of the season. The
weather all through the summer has been
delightful, the temperature being re
lieved from oppressive heats by tri-weekly
rains which have kept up with the regu
larity of clock work. No storms.” °
Curious Indian Relics.—The Jack
sonville News has been shown a collec
tion of singular Indian relics, obtained
from an ancient mound on tne plantation
of Mr. Mi lion, in Orange county. Among
these relics is a heavy gold arrow head,
worth, perhaps, thirty-five or forty dol
lars, of rough workmanship, that looks as
though it may have been hammered out
upon the rocks; a gold tomahawk, of
finer material, but thinner in appearance,
a silver ear pendant; a silver medal of
circular form two inches and a half wide
and having a hole in the centre; a silver
bullet, perforated; and several oddly
.shaped fragments of silver, rudely en
graved with strange characters.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
New York, August 28,1873.
persecution is propagation.
We parted with the reader in the pro
vincial city of Boston, where the author
ities are on the rampage after the set
lers and imbibers of liquors, and as a con
sequence an entire generation of hypo
crites has arisen. Bloated faces and stag
gering forms attest that the inebriate
still has his dram, and indeed it may be
capitally doubted whether prohibition
has not developed two drunkards to where
one existed previously. These stiff-necked
Bostonians once cast into their harbor
COTTON.
Receipts and Shipments at Macon for
* the Past Two Years.
Messrs. Starr & Ruan, cotton buyers of
this city, have our thanks for the sub
joined statement:
Stock on hand Sept. 1st, 1871 1.739
Receipts at Macon from Sept. 1st,
1871 to Sept. 1st, 1872..: 54,498
Receipts at East Macon from Sept.
1st, 1871 to Sept. 1st, 1872 1,835
Total receipts for Macon for year
1871-1872. .v". 56,333
Shipments from Macon from Sept.
1st, 1871 to Sept. 1st, 1872 55,849
Shipments from East Macon from
Sept. 1st, 1871 to Sept. 1st, ’72 1,812
TotalshipmentsforyearI871-’72....57,661
Stock on hand Sept. 1st; 1872 412
Receipts at Macon from Sept. 1st,
1872 to Sept. 1st, .1873.? 61,821
Receipts from East Macon from Sept.
1st, 1872 to Sept. 1st, 1873 2,246
Total receipts at Macon from Sept.
1st, 1872 to Sept. 1st, 1873 64,067
Shipments from Macon from Sept.
1st, 1872 to Sept. 1st, 1873 60,793
Shipments from East Macon from
Sept. 1st, 1872 to Sept. 1st,’73.. 2,233
Total shipments for year 1872—’73..63,026
Stock on hand Sept. 1st. 1873........ 1,399
First bale of new cotton was received
last year on August 11th ; this year the
first hale was received August 9th.
Tlie Great Balloon Voyage.
The New York Graphic announces that
its great trans-Atlantic balloon, if the
weather proves favorable, will ascend from
the Capitolino Grounds, Brooklyn, New
York, on "Wednesday afternoon, Septem
ber 10. Messrs. Wise and Donaldson,
the aeronauts, will be accompanied by a
reporter of the Graphic and an expe
rienced seaman, who will manage the life
boat attached to the balloon in case the
party have to exchange air for water. The
balloon is described as li6 feet high, 335
feet in circumference, and will contain
600,000 feet of cubic gas, with a power of
6,600 pounds. The aeronauts are confi
dent that from eighty to ’one hundred
hours’ travel will land them in Europe.
An-English aeronaut, who is said to be
eminent in his vocation. Mr. Henry Cor-
well, has written a communication to the
London Telegraph, in which he expresses
tho opinion that Mr. Wise is mistaken
both as to the current blowing from west
to east and the lifting power of the gas,
In legard to the first ho says that his
ownexperiencesdonot confirm the theory.
The Graphic balloon is to be on exhibi
tion from Saturday next till the time of
ascension.
cargo of tea,
"because an insignificant tax was imposed
upon it by the mother country. The
same spirit of resistance survives and is
only intensified in the present instance,
because invoked against the invasion of
personal rights ana immunities. When
will our preachers and legislators learn
that sumptuary laws and violent meas
ures never can repress carnal appetites,
"but rather by a rule of human nature,
provoke the contrary result.
OFF FOR NEWPORT AND NEW YORK.
On the afternoon of the 26th inst., your cor
respondent took his seat in the cars of the
old Colony railroad, en route again to this
city. The train coasted along the shore
through a sandy sterile region, frequent
ly intersected by hays and tide water in
dentations from the sea. Quite a num
ber of manufacturing villages were pass
ed, for here all the solid ground is occu
pied, if for no other purpose, by the fish
erman to spread his nets upon? After a
run of several hours we paused at the
far-famed manufacturing town of
FALL RIVER.
Here the stream, not a large one, is cov
ered over entirely and built upon, to
economize space and diminish evapora
tion. Every drop of the water, which for
tunately has a very great fall, is hus
banded, and made to pass from wheel to
wheel in quick succession, until it im
parts motion to a whole chain of facto
ries. It then drops gently into Narra-
gansett Eay. Bnt the go-ahead people,
not content with their/ water privileges,
have also utilized steam, and many huge
establishments are propelled by this more
expensive agent. Fall River is emphat
ically a city of factories which are the
most prominent objects on every side.
The population consists mainly of the
operatives and their employers. Time
did not permit ns to visit and examine
any of these works.
NEWPORT,
distant 19 miles, was the next objective
point, and for the entire distance the cars
hug the shores of Narraganset Bay, which
is a magnificent and expansive inlet of
the ocean, with high hills and verdant
slopes running down to the very water’s
edge. Upon its broad bosom numerous
schooners and other craft were plying to
and fro between Providence and New
port. The former is situated at the head
of the bay, and it is there, our readers
will remember, that the Spragues flour
ish and have located their immense calico
mills. The whole trip down the shores of
the hay is rendered delightful by the
fresh breeze sweeping in from the ocean,
and the splendid views which are ever
succeeding each other. Land and water
combined most felicitously with the crea
tions of art, fnmish all the essentials of a
perfect landscape.
Soon the train drew up at the derwt,
and an avalanche of hackmen and hotel
drummers with loud cries and menacing
whips, threatened nolens volens to abduct
every passenger. Shaking them off as
best he could, the deponent, luggage in
hand, made his way into the city, deter
mined to use his eyes to the best advan
tage for the hour and a half during which
he was forced to wait for the New York
steamer.
The city contains about twenty thou
sand inhabitants, and is mostly built of
wood. Thousands of guests still frequent
the vast hotels of this favorite watering
place, and bathe daily when the surf is
not too high. The drives in the vicinity
are very fine, and many of the private
villas and summer seats of the wealthy
are models of taste and elegance. It was
a source of real regret to the writer that
his observations were necessarily so lim
ited. But the approach of
jim fisk’s celebrated boat,
the gorgeous Bristol, caused him to hurry
incontinently to the pier and secure a
state room on hoard. This steamer is
400 feet long, three stories high, and was
built at a cost of one million of dollars.
The interior resembles a fairy palace in
its exquisite finish and elaborate decora
tions. _ Mahogany enameled panel work,
splendid pier glasses, and the most ele
gant fresco painting leave nothing want
ing that the most vivid imagination could
suggest. In addition, one of the best
bands of music in New York discoursed
the sweetest melody to a late hour. One
thousand passengers were accommodated
without difficulty in this floating hotel,
the cabin of which is adorned with the
likeness of the famous, or shall we say
infamous, personage who was itsprojector,
and supervised every part of it3 construc
tion. The breeze blew, fresh and strong
from the ocean, causing a considerable
swell, but so long and vast is the steamer
that the mot’ ui was hardly perceptible.
She literallv plowed her way through the
way“3. After a comfortable night the
writer arose with the dawn and went on
deck to enjoy tho invigorating salt air
and splendid ocean view. Our course lay
along the coast of Long Island, which
was dotted with beacons and light-houses.
AU around, and far away in the offing
might be seen scores of ships inward and
outward bound, their snowy sails alone
in some cases being visible above the dip
of the horizon. It was an exhilarating
scene. . .
AN OLD SALT.
Sitting near by was a middle-aged
man, who ;o frank countenance and
weather-beaten cheek" evinced him to be
long to those “who go down to the deep
in ships.” We ventured to address him,
and the genial and kind response en
couraged a more protracted tete a tete.
The name of our new friend was Captain
Johnstone, a native of St. Johns, New
Brunswick, and the master of an English
brig. For 30 years he had followed the
sea for a livelihood, during which period
he had doubled Cape Horn and visited
most of the European ports, also suffer-
ing^ shipwreck twice. Intimately ac
quainted with every buoy and light in
the approach to New York, he proved a
most valuable companion. Capt. Johns
tone was now engaged in the coal trade.
His vessel, owned by a refugee Cuban so
journing in St. Johns, was two years old,
cost $29,000, and had already paid for
herself. He was about to take a load of
lumber to Monte "Video, at a charge for
freight of $29 50 per 1,000 feet. The
profit is immense, but the risk is also
great. The wages of a skipper are about
$1,200 per annum and perquisites.
These often prove more remunerative
than, the regular salary. Thus a com
mission is. allowed upon freight engage
ments which is often shaded between the
captain and broker, or if he is well posted
and intelligent the former is able to se
cure his own load and pocket all the bo
nus. From this son of the New Domin
ion, who is utterly opposed to annexation
with Brother Jonathan’s territory, we
had a confirmation- of the high tides
which prevail in the Bay of Fundy. In
that narrow inland sea every twelve
hours the water from the ocean rushes in
like a mill race, and, rises to a height of
sixty feet. It then retires with equal ve
locity. This phenomenon is accounted
for on several hypotheses, which we have
not time now to explain.
hell gate.
We were now approaching this narrow
passage from the east, which from it3 hid
den dangers and treacherous currents has
received, the above startling appellation.
The mighty, channel dwindles down to a
meve thread, which is full of sunken rocks
and reefs which threaten with instant
destruction the luckless vessel which
strikes upon them. Many a gallant ship
has laid its bows upon these fatal rocks.
Government has for a long period been
engaged in removing these obstructions
to navigation by tbe blasting process. The
intention is to gradually
reefs, which are of the ‘haziest * i{
by the use of gun cotton and nitrl^
rme, which are exploded upon
face. The attempt has partiallv™ B1It -
ed. .But according to our
it will require many years yet to
channel entirely. In the meantW
THE DARING PILOT
is indispensible to home-hound „v
These adventurous sailors, intheiW 1 ' 5-
crafts over which every heavy sea > tuiy
with impunity, actually run out
dreds of miles in the very teeth of ° UI1 '
and board the vessels they seek fa
duct into harbor. Captain Joints wf,'
shipped a pilot even as far off Jo 4
Hatteras. Every ship is required t 1 *
cept of the services of the first niloHv''
speaks it, and the underwriters of All
sels require that the captain sh^i
linguish the sailing of the ship fav
The passage through Hell Gate is
miles in length, and the steamer n J ^
very near the numerous islets Vil i
oceunied un'U, •
very near
are all
structures of various kinds^
length we entered the bav
Governor’s Island and the w
fortifications behind, and steamed^
past Castle Garden to our pier at thef Bp
of Murray street.. eftlo t
of Murray street. _ v ^
eut left this splendid monument to^u^*
Fisk, and mingling with the snr
crowd in Gotham, made his way tyk’
old quarters at the Grand Central HoM
BUSINESS IMPROVING. WJ "
Within the past week, hundreds of m
chants from the South and West ha»
been flocking into tbe city, and trade hi
undergone a sudden and vigorous
tus. The Grand Central is now K.
lying point at night for all Southern mw
chanto and drummers for the SoutW
trade. The hubbub is tremendous aS
well nigh deafening. One forgets that
he is a thousand miles from home in th
midst of this crowd of familiar faces j!
is now evident that New York will do»
very heavy business the present fall ani
yet money continues scarce and Ten
tight. •’
In Wall street the bulls and hears are
at it again, and heavy fluctuations h
stocks are reported. Vanderbilt, J a r
Cook, and other millionaire celebritii
axe putting their fingers in the financial
pie, and playing the old Harry with ererv
thing. New rings and comers are said
to be en the tapis, and again have the
frantic merchants appealed to Uncle San
to unlock his treasure house and are
ease to the monetary situation. Stupen.
dors frauds too, keep leaking out is
Brooklyn, Washington and divers other
places, and moneyed men feel distrait
and unhappy. Blessed are those who
have nothing to be thus troubled about.
SOUTHERN SECURITIES,
however, hold their own, and there is a
growing feeling that, despite government
meddlings, and carpet-bag ascendancy in
some of the States, the South will event-
ually work out her own salvation and
show that her princely domain is stfll the
property of tlie white man.
THE GERMAN POPULATION
in New York is a very numerous and im
portant element of "the city. They are
an industrious money-making people,
and whole communities retain their Ian-
guage and manners and customs. At the
solicitation of a friend, we spent an
hour in one of their beer gardens. It
was the noted retreat known as Tivoli
Garden in St. Marks’ Place.
THE BEER GARDEN.
Imagine a vast apartment filled with
small tables and handsomely painted and
decorated. A thousand persons may be
comfortably accommodated, and a pleas- • I
ing feature in the scene are the tall trees
and shrubbery which rise almost to the
roof from the large tubs and boxes which
contain them. (Si an elevated platform
or stage the orchestra is posted, and soot
it is made evident that the musicians are
among thff most skilled performers in
the country. The melody is almost en
trancing, while the programme is varied
by occasional songs in the Language of
the Yaterland, from a tall and handsome
vocalist whose soul seems absorbed in the
spirit of bis utterances No assemblage,
of quakers ever preserved more unbroken
silence or could be better behaved. A
critical survey of the tables revealed the
fact that the audience was nearly equally
divided between the two sexes, while
whole families were to he seen—mothers
nursing their infants and the other little
ones hanging about them. Ever and
anon kegs of beer were borne in on the
shoulders of stalwart attendants and
promptly tapped at a counter placed at
the right of the orchestra. Everybody
partook of this national beverage, and
scores of waiters handed round the foam
ing goblets incessantly. The little chil
dren, too, and their mamas imbibed their
full share. An air of supreme content
and perfect enjoyment seemed to pervade
the assembly. Not an oath or loud word
was heard, nor were cards, dominoes or
any other game indulged in.
In an adjoining room one hundred news-
paper files were arranged around the walls,
ten only of which were printed in any
other than the German language. It was
a Teutonic gathering emphatically, con
ducted with the most perfect decorom.
At a signal the gas was turned down, anJ
hundreds of dissolving views were dis
played in quick succession upon the walk
Some of these were exceedingly beautiful
and original, and others very laughable.
"Whether resulting from the phlcgmatie
temperament of the race or the soothing
effects of their beverage, we know not,
hut certainly a more quiet multitude were
never brought together, and the. tori e*-
senibleot the affair was wholly un-Ameri
can.
New York life has been described too
frequently, and- even dramatised, for the
writer to inflict any more of itsscenesupon
the patient reader. We will only say in
corroboration of the trite remark, that ap
pearances are ofttimes deceiving, that
in returning to tlie hotel from the Tivoli
Garden, a shabby Italian woman was
pointed out selling peaches, who had
amassed $30,000 by the sale of nicknacks
at her stand, corner of Spruce and Nassau
streets. At this time she has a daughter
at school on Staten Island, who will doubt
less become one of the belles of the city-
But her ragged old dame still pursues
her vocation, and daily adds many pc n *
nies to her pile. From such beginnings
many of the New York aristocracy n»J
date their origin. H. H. J-
“ Wliere He Lost Himself.”
An Atchison, Kansas, paper relates the
story of a hulking six foot customer, who,
a few years ago, appeared on the street
in that city, causing the timid to tremble
andTebels to quake by reason of to®
mouthings on his part in relation to tn
war. He was with Grant; had faced the
cannon’s mouth, and with his good
hand had used his sabre and wo**
down the rebels as the fanner does the
grass. He had killed something less than
a thousand “rehs,” and wasn’t tliroug
yet. No,8ir,he was “an old-fashion ^
Republican,” and expected to live to®?
enough to plant many a rebel yet-
"became quite enthusiastic on the suhj&- >
and would have been blowing to this®®"
mept, probably, had not a slender*
man who once wore the gray come *jP
.the time. The rebel-slayer address'-
conversation to him, and there is w “
he lost himself, for the rebel turnt n
ordered him to instantly dear out- _
he refused to do, whereupon the star .
bar man got hold of the s tar-sp._ =•.
fellow By the collar, and immediawv ^
gun using his foot,, the toe ot + ^
seriously disarranged the others coot* g{
A noise followed each apphcati ^
leather that sounded like the conn g ^
gether of two infuriated rams.^ ■* u
bel-killer remarked at every ««*4
right, sir, all right; just let go of
FU go.” He went.
The post-offices of Louisville j
ington, Ky., are both under the chars' ^
women, ladies being the only pu" A , ,
that section whose love of born n ^
not get the better of their discrete
fore the mail can be distributed.
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