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Spain and tlie United States,
The telegrams yesterday report that
Spain rejects the idea of arbitration in the
Virginias difficulty. It also repeats the
rumor that Costclar’s republic is virtually
superseded by Marshal Serrano as Dicta*
tor and regent in the interests of the
young Duke Alfonso. This news, if true,
does not improve the peace prospects.
The Forth-third Congress
Of the United States will commence its first
and long session next Monday. This will
be the first Congress assembled under the
new and increased apportionment in the
House of Representatives, making the
number of members 293. The adminis
tration will hold 195 seats, giving it a
majority of 98. The opposition will be
in a greater minority than in the last
Congress, as it then numbered 111 mem
bers out of 213, and now there are but 97
Democrats and Liberals in a total of 292.
Vick’s Floral Guide.
Mr. Vick has sent us his Floral Guide
and Catalogue of Flowers, Shrubs, Fruits
and Vegetables for January, 1874. This
is the most gorgeous publication in
America, and a perfeety trophy of taste
and mechanical ingenuity. It is now
published quarterly, and is a pamphlet
of 140 pages furnished to order on receipt
of a 25 cents postage stamp, addressed to
James Vick, Rochester, N. Y.
Mr. Vick is a wonderful man. Once
the denizen of a dusky printing office, his
innate passion for horticulture has made
him Prince of Flowers and Fruits—the
Lord of Palaces and Gardens—a million
aire—and the most extensive mercantile
horticulturist in America. Everything
that the reader can desire in seed, tree,
shrub, vine or blossom, he can sunply,
and furnishes at very moderate prices.
His Floral Guide should be in every
tasteful household.
A joint stock company has been organ,
ized in France to tunnel the Straits of
Dover, and connect England with France
by rail. Dover and Calais, the points to
be connected, are twenty-three miles
apart, and the formation to be penetrated
is believed to be nothing but an immense
bed of chalk, of at least eight hundred
feet in thickness. Machines for sinking
wells in chalk deposits have been invent
ed, which in twenty-four hours will bore
a hole through such material fifty-four
deep and seven feet in diameter. The
company estimates the cost of a railroad
tunnel twenty-three miles long at about
$50,000,000. No subsidies are asked for
from either government, but the company
asks for a monopoly of the tunnel busi
ness between the two countries. The
most astonishing thing is that so facile
an enterprise has not been undertaken
before, and can only be accounted for
npon the hypothesis that some people
doubt that the bottom of the English
Channel is all chalk.
The industrial exposition scheme at
New York is dead. The special committe
of nine assistant aldermen appointed to
bear arguments for and against the pro
posed loan of $2,500,000 to the Industrial
Exposition Company made their final re
port to the full board on Wednesday
afternoon. The report is adverse to the
loan. The president put the question to
the meeting, and it was received with
only one dissentient voice. So the job
bers do not get at the city treasury for
their private land speculation, notwith
standing the false pretence set up of a de
sire qo put laborers to work.
These seems to be a fatality attached
to the Presbyterian pulpit at Matawan
New Jersey. On a late Sunday, while
the pastor was reading these lines in the
first hymns
"Soon the delightful day will come
"lien my Lonl will call me home.
And I shall see his face.”
His strength gave out, and in a few mo
ments he died of apoplexy. Some years
ago, Mr. Shafer, pastor of the same
church, fell dead in the pulpit from the
same disease, while reading the conclud
ing lines of the same hymn.
Subscribe fob It.—We hope (says the
Eufaula News of last Saturday,) that all
of our citizens who can afford to take a
first-class daily paper to read these long
winter nights, will subscribe for the Ma
con Telegraph and Messenger, through
its agent and correspondent, Maj. R. D.
Shropshire. The Spanish complications,
the meeting of Congress and what it will
do with the Cuban question and the finan
cial affairs of the country, etc., will be
matters of great interest to our people,
and in no journal will they find earlier
and fullet reports than those furnished
by the Telegraph and Messenger.
Hanging things on the apex of the
college chapel spire is a favorite trick
with the Yale students just now. A pair
of old pantaloons fluttered from this lofty
pinnacle the other morning, ns a patriot
ic acknowledgment, possibly, of the fact
that Secretary Robeson hasn’t had his
trousers off since the assortment of flags
on the Virginius were insulted.
A Chicago widow, who has the income
of $100,000 to live on, was found drunk
in a Chicago gutter the other night, and
taken to the police station, where she
slept on the downy side of a plank until
morning. She was elegantly dressed,
and two splendid diamond rings blazed
npon her fingers when she was fished out
of the mud.
The war fever is raging wildly in In
diana. The Terra Haute Express says:
"There are at least one thousand men
in this city willing to enlist as field offi
cers in a war to conquer Cuba. There is
also a right smart sprinkling of martyr
souls willing to go as sutlers and quar
termasters."
A decision in an English court directs
attention to a little noticed danger of the
public in government ownership of the
telegraph. The court ruled that the
Postmaster General is not responsible in
damages for any default in the transmis-
cion of messages.
It is understood once more that Sena*
tor Conkling has decided to decline the
Chief Justiceship, privately tendered him
by the President.
The Marquis of Westminster is com
fortably situated to weather an ordinary
panic, his rent roll in London exceeding
five millions of dollars per annum.
.Last Week’s Cotton Figures.
The New York Financial and Commer
cial Chronicle reports that for the week end
ing Friday night 21st instant, the receipts
were 133,336 bales against 124,060 bales
last week, 128,114 bales the previous Week
and 108,030 bales three weeks since, mak
ing the total receipt since the first of Sep
tember, 1873,856,106 bales against 1,006,-
946 bales for the same period of 1872.
showing a decrease since September 1,
1873, of 150,840 bales.
The receipts of the interior porta were
36,898 bales, against 35,718 for the cor
responding week of last year. The ship
ments were 38,262 against 32,449, and
the stocks on hand footed up 67,857
against 67,500 last year.
The Chronicle’s table of the visible
supply shows 1,955,365 bales against 2,-
061,423 at the corresponding date of last
year, and 1,977,605 the year before—
showing a decrease in supply of 106,058
bales as compared with last year, and of
22,140 as compared with 1871. The Liv
erpool prices for middling uplands com
pare as follows: 1873, 8} to 8 Id; 1872
9|d; 1871, 9|i.
The Chronicle reports generally favor
able weather in the Cotton States, with
light rain falls at many points and an
usually severe storm at Macon, which, it
is feared, has done much damage. At
Vicksburg also there was a high wind for
forty-eight hours, amounting almost to a
hurricane. Galveston reports about all
the crop gathered. Memphis says two-
thirds of the crop there have been picked,
and much abandoned by the negroes,
which will be partially secured by other
labor. -
On the general situation, the Chron
icle reports a rapid and healthy improve
ment. The banks are stronger and gain
ing, and commercial affairs returning to
old channels. The recovery in cotton
during the past two weeks has been
healthy, but speculation will be peculiar
ly hazardous.
American consumption will be consid
erably short of last year, but the Chroni
cle locks for an earlier recovery than is
generally accepted by manufacturers. The
present stoppage, however, cannot amount
to less than 6,000 hales a week, and the
loss would be 75,000 if all the mills were
to resume by the 1st of January. The
general prostration of trade will also di
minish consumption of goods, so that af
ter the mills resume they will not run to
their utmost capacity.
The manufacturing interests of Europe,
also, are not in a satisfactory condition.
India is overstocked with goods, and
China is not hun. ry for them. The cot
ton supply of last year was deficient
1,200,000 bales from countries other than
America, while this year the crop is a full
one all round. High prices, therefore,
cannot reasonably be anticipated.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Protection.
Mr. Horace J. Smith, of the Philadel
phia Press, sends us a private letter, en
closing the following slip in which he
gives the South a few useful hints as to
the importance of diversifying her in
dustrial interests, but spoils all by the
broad assertion that she will then "clamor
more loudly than Pennsylvania, for a
tariff.”
In this region the wholesome doctrine
of free trade and sailors’ rights las ever
had its fullest exemplification. Our peo
ple have suffered too much in their
pockets by tbe class legislation of the
North, and its Unrighteous protection of
a pampered few engaged in manufac
tures, at the cost of millions of innocent
consumers, to listen to the syren song of
this representative of the iron men of
the Keystone State.
The people of the South should indeed
unearth their mineral treasures, spin
their own cotton, raise their wine, wheat,
corn, meat, hay and fruits, but not by
seeking to prey upon each other, and
bolstering up one set of producers at the
expense of their neighbors.
Let every tub stand on its own bottom,
is sound doctrine in political economy.
Equal laws and a fair showing are all that
should he asked for or conceded to any
industrial pursuit. And the consumer
should be left free to make his purchases
anywhere in the wide world, where he
can make the cheapest bargain, and se
cure the best article.
Mr. Smith is a very clever, genial fel
low, but he is barking up the wrong tree
this time:
Ex-United States Senator D. M. Yulee
had with him, in a late trip from Fernan
da na, samples of kaolin, which he lately
discovered in that State. How it would
diversify the industries of the South, if
they would make their own crockery out
of their own clay, their iron out of their
own ores, their own lead pipe out of their
own mines, and everywhere their cloth
out of their cotton! It would not take
long with pot stacks, iron furnaces, fac
tories, and other industrial chimneys
belching out coal smoke in their midst
to m ike the people of the South thor
ough protectionists. The Angle-Saxons,
which, rising up in' Central Europe,
have brained the more feeble folk
who stood in tlieir path, and
left the carcasses of Italians, Gauls, Sax
ons, Welsh, Irish, Indians (red and yel
low) negroes, and Australians to rot, are
an essentially selfish race. "The natural
rights of all men” they prate about, are
a mere fiction for the ear. These rights
neither control their heads nor their
hearts. Might, power, and dominion
over man and beast are their ruling pas
sions, and we see some sad wrecks of hu
manity lingering under the shadow of
their skirts, but mostly the path of his
tory is marked by the graves of the tribes
they exterminated. Self-protection is
the law of their nature, and when the
South wakes up to the fact that a diver
sified industry is the need of her exist
ence, she will clamor more loudly than
Pennsylvania for a tariff.
This is the way the Cincinnati Com
mercial puts the case:
While we are talking about that peace
ful merchantman, the “ Virginius,” that
was sailing under the Star Spangled
Banner on an errand of international
mercy and love, bearing some of our
honored fellow-citizens, a telegram comes
from Kingston, saying:
" There was no concealment made of
the actual errand of the Virginius while
she was here. It was notorious. The
officers had dancing parties on board,
and public meetings were held in honor
of Cuban independence, at which a con
signee of the Virginius occupied the
chair. The steamer was repaired while
in port and coaled at the expense of Cu
ban refugees.”
The fact is, the Virginius was insult
ing the American flag by carrying it>and
the Spaniards knew her os well Os wo
knew the Alabama or the Florida Confed-
federate cruisers. We have been en
couraging fillibustering in this .country,
thoughtlessly, and the danger of war in
which we find ourselves is one of the
fruits of this policy. The Spaniards are
barbarous fools to murder their priso
ners, but that is notour affair.
I The Savannah News, per Harris, has
the.se "war” paragraphs:
| The Atlanta Zouaves have tendered
their services to General Grant. If this
should reach the ears of the Spaniards,
we fear they will not allow the war to
begin.
It is stated upon reliable authority that
Pat Walsh, of the Augusta Chronicle, is
arming for the Spanish war.
The bare possibility of a war with
Spain has caused some of the valiant
roosters, who recovered from lameness so
suddenly after our late war, to hunt np
their old sticks. Nothing like being in
time.
A Macon correspondent of an Atlanta
paper says that private advices received
in that city state that a battalion of vol
unteers is forming at Savannah for Cuba,
either to act in conjunction with the
United States Government or in any other
capacity tending to the revenge of the
recent butcheries. Is it possible that the
editorial demijohn, so freely used during
the State Fair, has been replenished ?
Tunis G. Campbell, Jr., the highly
colored and high-headed misrepresents-
tive of the McIntosh county darkeys, is
"foaming” for war, and not finding any
Spaniards handy, assaulted the Marshal
of Darien, for which he will have to an.
swer before a jury. -
The Savannah News announces the
death last Friday of Mr. Jacob Spang, a
well known cattle-drover of that section.
He was a native of Germany, but had
lived in this country nearly thirty years.
The same paper records the death of
Mrs. Martha Leach, of that city, at the
age of eighty-six. She was a native of
Savannah, and had lived there all her
life. For more than fifty years she had
been a member of the Baptist church.
We quote 03 follows from the Atlanta
Constitution of yesterday:
Homicide in Marietta.—We learn
that on Saturday evening, Mr. D. L. Ma-
lone was killed in Marietta, by Mathew
Moore. Malone, who was a contractor,
was paying off his hands. He and Moore
are reported to have been tight. Some
dispute arose between them, when Moore
threw a brick, striking Malone in the
temple and fracturing tbe skull so se
verely, that Malone died before Sunday
morning. Moore has been arrested and
jailed.
A Lively Contest and an Interest
ing Law Question.—The following are
about the facts relative to the recent seiz
ure of a number of cigars in this city
levied on by Judge Pittman, by the
United States Collector, and the apparent
conflict between the Federal and State
authorities resulting therefrom. Freder
ick V. Mossdorf, who was recently convict
ed of carrying on tho business of a retail
liquor dealer without paying the special
tax, was a tenant of Judge Pittman’s,
and at the time of liia arrest and convic
tion owed some $200 for rent. Mossdorf
was also manufacturer and dealer in ci
gars, and Judge Pittman, to secure his
rent, sued out a distress warrant, which
was levied on certain cigars in the honse.
These cigars were, therefore, in the pos
session of the law, and were remaining in
the house simply by sufferance. Several
days after his conviction, Mossdorf made
his escape, and has not yet been captured.
Under the United States revenue laws,
Mossdorf, as a manufacturer of cigars, was
compelled to make monthly returns to the
Collector, showing the number of cigars
manufactured, and the number sold. The
return for Oct. had not been made when he
was arrested. On last Saturday, Judge
Pittman made application to the proper
authorities to be allowed to put stamps
on a number of these cigars. This ap
plication was denied, because the Gov
ernment officials suspected tho existence
of fraud in MossdorfFs returns, and be
cause, under the law, they could only
issue these stamps to the manufacturers.
In the United States statutes there is a
clause which authorizes any Circuit or
District Judge, or United States Commis
sioner, to issue to the Collector of the In
ternal Revenue a search warrant, by
which he is empowered to enter and
search any premises upon his making af
fidavit that he believes that a fraud is
being perpetrated against the Govern
ment. Tins warrant was taken out by
the Collector on the 15th, but was not
executed until the 18th. In the mean
time negotiations were being carried on
between Judge Pittman and the Collec
tors about entering the honse, the Judge
offering to give up the keys if they would
take only such cigars as they found un
stamped, and the Collector insisting that
he was required to seize everything con
nected with the cigar business. On the
18th instant the Collector and deputies
proceeded to the store to force
an entrance. Judge Pittman denied
their authority to break his doors,
on the ground that tho cigars
were not in his custody hut in
that of the law. Several policemen were
also present. Mr. Fleisch did attempt to
break the door, when Judge Pittman
caught him and told him not to do it.
The revenue officers then retired, still in
sisting upon their right to make the seiz
ure. During that night the Collector
had the premises guarded by United
States soldiers, and the next day, after
further negotiation with Judge Pittman,
in which the two gentlemen again failed
to reach an understanding, he broke open
the premises under guard of a squad of
soldiers. The cigars were then removed.
The entire amount seized was about 2,900,
of which only two or three boxes had been
stamped. They were appraised at $136.
The Collector thinks that Judge Pittman
is as safe now os he ever was. By simply
filing a claim he can postpone the sale of
the cigars until a competent Court has
passed upon the merits of the case. The
law question involved is interesting.
Judge Pittman claims that the lien of his
distress warrant attached to the cigars '
before the lien of the Government under
its confiscation laws, and that as he was
innocent of any fraud, and the goods not
in his possession, the Collector had no
right to break his doors. The above
facts, we believe, are correct.
The same paper has the following
timely remarks upon the clamor for war
with Spain:
J. to rise suddenly. Destruction of fam
ily and everything-seemed, as it were,
inevitable. As he arose frightened, all at
once a large post oak tree, standing some
twenty feet from the chimney, blew up,
falling directly over the house and chim
ney lengthwise, crushing the whole house
and chimney. Mr. Johnson was stand
ing at the side of the bed, and was
knocked down and stunned and bruised,
the tree and side of the house falling di
rectly over him. The west end and north
side of the house fell in, covering up Mrs.
Johnson and the two children. Apart of
the side of the house fell directly acro3B
Mrs. Johnson. Fortunately the bedstead
post protected or prevented the weight of
the house from killing her and the two
children. Mr. Johnson, perfectly bewil
dered, extricated himself in the darkness,
believing his wife and children were
killed. He made haste to Mr. Jim
Smith’s, his nearest neighbor, a distance
of two or three hundred yards. Mr.
Smith and Doc Smith were absent. He
hurried on and found some kind freed-
men, who repaired with him to the de
molished house; and after much effort,
removed the timbers from off Mrs. John
son and the two children, and to the as
tonishment and joy of Sir. Johnson, his
wife and children were extricated without
any very serious injury.
Mrs, J * P. Stevens.
In another column will be found the
announcement of the death of this esti
mable lady. From early youth a con
sistent and devoted member of the Bap
tist communion, she met death without a
tremor, remaining perfectly sensible,
calm and triumphal almost to the very
instant which severed the spirit from its
tenement of clay.
Her remains were brought to Macon
by the bereaved husband and a few
friends, and interred on Monday in Rose
Hill Cemetery. Rev. A. W. Clisby offi
ciated at the grave, and some of our best
citizens acted as pall bearers.
To Dr. J. P. Steven8,anold and cherished
friend, and a gentleman most favorably
known in literary and scientific circles,
we extend our heartfelt sympathy and
condolence.
Most truly did he remark that the loss
of children, and all other earthly afflic
tions, are not to be compared to that
overwhelming calamity which, in the
death of a loving wife, robs the house
hold of its brightest gem, and makes
desolate the hearthstone of the surviv
ing partner. The doctor is an elder in
the Presbyterian Church, however, and a
Christian. He can turn for consolation
to sources the world wots not of. We
doubt not he can truly exclaim—" Though
He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.
Thy will, O ! Lord, be done.”
New Grange Poetry.
Some of the horny-handed politicians
in this State who are so sweet on the
Grangers, have been improving the shin
ing hours since the meeting in this city
during the State Fair, by wooing the po
etic muse in order to get up something
to sing to the Patrons at the meeting
nowin progress at Atlanta. Wo have
recently come into possession of some of
this poetry, and give-the following as
specimens. It will be observed that the
efforts of the h. h. p.’s aforesaid in this
line are rather crude. But they'll im
prove under proper encouragement. The
approach of another election will see them
doing a great deal better:
"IdnainofabeMitifc! tilhe.
-■ lien tae world shall happy be,
When elephants and hyenas
Shall blossom on every tree;
When tamarinds and potatoes
Shall cease their dreadful roar.
And the turnip tree shall blossom
In tho garden evermore,”
• • • • • •
“ But Kone are the days of childhood.
And manhood’s dreams are mine,
Tet I long for by-gone hours
As I sit ’neath the turkey vine.
Oil! wreathe your blossoms around me.
And soothe my aching breast,
While the mulberry plaintively warbles
And oalms me into rest.”
Tlie South Carolina Moses
The Charleston News and Courier
mentions a rumor in Columbia that the
banditti were about to impeach Governor
Moses for receiving bribes. That paper
tells a tale which, taken in connection
with the rich experience of Governor
Scott, shows that the Governorship of
South Carolina is better than a California
placer.. Says the News
Tho'salary -of the Governor of South
Carolina is $3,500 a year, and no fee or
perquisite is attached to the office. Gov.
Moses has never even occupied the Ex
ecutive Mansion, on Arsenal Hill, where
Governor Scott was lodged at the ex
pense of the State, nor had he, at the
time of his election, any private fortune
beyond an extensive capital of debts.
Nevertheless he lives in royal style. The
Preston mansion, which he has bought,
has cost somebody more than one hun
dred thousand dollars, and is not yet
completely equipped for the accommoda
tion of the Sybaritic Governor. Fast
horses, diamonds and other extravagances
are freely indulged in, and the only in
come of the luxurious spendthrift,
so far as the public know, is an official
salary of $3,500 a year. In December
last the General Assembly appropriated
$325,000 to pay the claims of the Credit
Mobilier Republican Printing Company,
and it was openly said, at the time, that
Governor Moses refused to approve the
joint resolution unless he was paid forty
thousand dollars for the job. The “boss
es” of the concern complained that very
little' was left when they had finished
paying the various politicians who “help
ed the claim through.” It is, also, gen
erally believed that no county officer, who
is subject to Executive removal, can keep
his place long unless he periodically steps
up to the captain’s office and settles.
Such reports are natural enough. They
point to the one way in which the public
can explain how it is that a public officer
can spend every year thirty or forty
times as much as his visible income.
Governor Moses does not caro for criti
cism so long as he stands, well with his
party, and his party will stick to Gover
nor Moses until it suits their purpose to
throw him overboard. The impeachment
talk, therefore, is not likely to amount to
much, although this is a healthy time for
convicting and punishing political crim
inals.
•• The sly curculio I'll delude,
On the weevil nut up a job;
Whack in with the cute potato bug.
Or give him one for his nob.
I’ll sweetly blarney the caterpillar,
While yet *tis leafy June;
And when the crop is garnered in
I’ll shake the gay cocoon.”
Old Time Reminiscences.
The Columbus Enquirer is publishing
extracts of local and other news from its
old files, some of which are very inter
esting. It has now reached the year
1839, and here are some items of- that
date:
September 18.—Married, on Thursday
the 13th inst., by Rev. Samuel K.Hodge3,
Henry L. Benning, Esq., to Miss Mary
Howard, only daughter of Colonel Sea
born Jones, of Muscogee county.
October 9.—At an election held last
Monday, H. S. Smith was elected Sena
tor, and Watson, McDougald and Guerry,
Representatives. For Governor, Dough
erty received 1861 and McDonald 850
votes. The gentlemen elected were Union
Democrats.
Cotton.—The planters are beginning to
arrive with their cotton. The crop is
larger than has been supposed, and the
staple is as fine as we have ever seen in
this market. We regret that prices are
dull—ranging from 8i to 9 cents. There
is little hope of an advance. The re
ceipts vary from fifty to one handled and
twenty-five bags per day.
Dr. J. W. Turner, of this city, sold on
the 18th of September, $11,700 worth of
Horus Multicaulis mulberry trees. The
trees were about three and a half feet
hlyu, and were sold at twenty-five cents
1 per tree.
The paper of this date gives notice 6t
the opening of the St. Joseph and lola
Railroad. John D. Gray was contractor.
On the first excursion trip the run be
tween the two points was made in two
hours and fifteen minutes, the train car
rying upwards of four hundred ladies and
gentlemen. A barbecue, given by Mr.
Shell, signalized the auspicious event.
[The above road has played out long
since.]
November 13.—A correspondent men
tions the Georgia Railroad to Greensboro,
Ga., and goes on to say the business of
one day amounted to $1,500.
Stokes and young Walworth are both
rick in Sing Sing prison, New York.
. The Mikado of Japan was at the open-
of a polytechnic school at Tokei on
October 7. Three thousand persons were
present to begin their studies.
People are beginning very sensibjy to
inquire, what is the South to gain by a
war, and what is there to warrant such
wild ebullitions of passion, as are appa
rent in some quarters. We still caution
our people to go slow—to take no stock
in this crusade until they look carefully
into its merits and into the results. The
South has certainly seen enough of car-
pet-bagism and freed negroes to satisfy
them that they ought to observe oration
in precipitating a war to open up new
fields for carpet-bag glory and freed ne-
groism—a war that will be waged at the
expense of the prostration of the South
and the heaping up of taxation already
burdensome. •
A two-story brick building at Savon
nah used as a negro school, was burned
last Saturday. It was valued at $5000,
and insured for $2000.
The Romans are feeling decidedly bet
ter, in view of the fact that gold has been
found on Capt. John Turner’s place, ten
miles west of Rome. An old California
miner boosts them high up with the re
port that he never saw a finer prospect
in that State than this presents.
An Incident of the Late Storm
Narrow Escape.—A Henry county cor
respondent of tho Griffin News sends that
paper the following:
A Mr. Bruce Johnson, his family, wife
and two children, three and five years
old, were living on a place near Arch.
Brown, Esq., and were tenants of Arch.
Brown’s. Mr. Johnson’s wife and two
children were sleeping in a bed in the
northwest corner of the house; right
opposite Mr. Johnson was lying, a'fire
place between them. The gush of wind
and noise—most remarkable—caused Mr.
An Escape from tlie Tombs.
The New York Herald, of Thursday,
says: "Yesterday afternoon, at about
half-past one o’clock, William J. Sharkey,
the condemned murderer of Bob Dunn,
escaped from the Tombs. In this age,
when a wreath of romance is woven for
the brow of almost every crime, it is af
fecting to discover that picturesqueness
is not wanting to the environment of a
felon awaiting death npon the gallows.
Yesterday morning at ten, a girl named
Maggie Jourdan called to see Sharkey,
and was admitted, going out again at one.
At half-past twelve a woman; calling her
self t)io wife of Wes’ Allen, was admit
ted for the same purpose, and on attempt
ing to come out, two hours after, was de
tained because she claimed to have lost
the pass which it would have been nec
essary for her to give up before stepping
outside. Meanwhile, at half-past one—half
an hour after Maggie Jourdan had left,
and half an hour before the other wo
man attempted to do so ~ a person dressed
in the guise of a woman, and wearing
a green veil, passed through the four doors
and the long corridor which intervened
I between Sharkey’s cell and liberty, and,
making rapid progress toward Elm street,
entered a car belonging to the Bleecker
street line. This individual was William
J. Sharkey. The four doors through
which he had to pass were locked, and at
the hour when the escape was made the
long corridor was traversed by many peo
ple. Mrs. Allen’s attemptto go out with-
,out a pass was the occasion (so runs the
tale) of suspicion being awakened and of
search being made. It was then that
Sharkey’s cell was found vacant, and his
mustache, freshly shaved off, lying with
the lather on it on a shelf. The fact that
the door of the cell in which Sharkey was
confined was always kept locked, except
when temporarily opened to allow of tho
passage of food, and that all communica
tion between him and his visitors took
place through the moveless bars, only
heightens the suspicion of collusion.
The Feeling in Wall Street.
Wall street yesterday, says the World
of the 22d, was much disturbed by the
rumored warlike aspect of Cuban affairs
It was universally scouted that the Uni
ted States had demanded of Spain the
unconditional abolition of slavery in the
Island of Cuba, as sensationally reported,
and various opinions were expressed re
garding the effect npon the stock market
of an absolute declaration of war, and the
policy of the Government was condemned
as vacillating. A prominent and repre
sentative stock-broker remarked that the
present Administration, having lost the
respect and confidence of the financial
and commercial portion of tho commu
nity, was now frantically struggling to
regain lost ground by . plunging “the
country into a war, hoping that it will be
popular. This plan, he thought, would
not meet the views of responsible men,
who had something to lose and nothing
to aun by a war. The prevailing tone of
feeling, however, seemed to be that, un
less reports had greatly exaggerated, the
riAvamtTianf Vi o rl nnf 14nnlf *n *
Government had put itself in a position
from which it could now extricate itself
only by very prompt and decisive action.
A similar sentiment also prevailed at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel last evening.
The Protest of Capt. Fry; .
The declaration and protest of Capt.
Joseph Fry before the United States vice
consul, after being sentenced to death,
was in substance as follows:
That he was the master of the Ameri
can steamer Virginius, which had all her
papers in complete order, especially the
register of the steamer, crew list and ar
ticles, passenger list,- clearance from
Kingston, as also dispatch from Custom
house, etc. Sailed on the 23d of October,
1873, with all his crew and about 108
passengers; after a few hours at sea
sprung a leak and put into Port Haytien
for repair; sailed from the port of Cul-
mit, of that island, on the 30th day of
October, and, while between the islands
of Cuba and Jamaica, about twenty miles
or more from Cuba, was chased by a
steamer, and overtaken and captured
about eighteen miles north of Morant
Point east end of the Island of Jamaica,
about ten o’clock at night, the Spanish
vessel previously firing several shots over
the Virginius and compelling them to
surrender. The steamer was then taken
charge of by a boarding officer, who stated
that he did so on his own responsibility,
knowing her to be an American vessel
and under the protection of tlie flag of
the United states of America. The
master, Joseph Fry, with the crew
and passengers, were placed under guard,
and all brought into the port of Santi
ago de Cuba on the 1st day of November.
On the evening of the same day, after
having delivered over all the papers be
longing to the Virginius, he was refused
permission to apply to his consul for aid
and protection, and this was only granted
him after being condemned to death with
the major part of his crew, under no
known public law or pretext; and, as
Capt. Fry was hurried to make his prepar
ations for death, he could make no further
statement, but declares that the forego
ing is his true declaration, which he signed
in jail, at 2 o’clock on the 7th November,
1873—two hours previous to his execu
tion. This protest was approved by sev
eral of the foreign consuls with whom
Mr. Schmitt advised. But Gov. Burriel
was highly incensed at the consul's action,
and informed him he had demanded the
revocation of his exequatur. Another in
sult was put upon the consul, for just
previous to the moment on which the
prisoners loft the jail, three soldiers as
guards were stationed at the consul’s res
idence— one at each comer and one in
front of his door. It happened that the
French consul, his chancellor and several
other persons were at the time with Mr.
Schmitt, and ae the time was too short to
demand an explanation and have tho sol
diers removed— as every one stopped to
inquire if the United States consul was
under guard—joined in making a process
verbal of the eircnmstance.
Foster Blodgett.
The persistent appetite of Foster Blod
gett for fiduciary positions is illustrated
by the Charleston News and Coufier in
correcting an account of a little personal
difficulty Last week between one Neagle
and Governor Moses. Says that paper t
It is said, besides, that the considera
tion for the endorsement was the prom
ise of Moses, which he did not keep, to
appoint the notorious Foster Blodgett to
he treasurer of one of the upper counties.
That is the version of the story which
has come to Charleston. '
It is lucky for "one of the upper
counties ” that M0303 did not keep his
promise. True, all the treasurers in
South Carolina are said to steal, but we
reckon none con show such a facile hand
as Blodgett.
Fortifications and Garrisons of the
Cuban Capital—The City Yulnera-
1 blc From tbe Land Side—The .tlorro.
Cabana and La Punta—How Ha
vana Can he Reduced To-day.
From the New York Herald.]
Cuba, considering its great value as a
producing country and its highly impor
tant geographical position, has been nota
bly exempt from foreign attack since its
discovery and settlement by the Span
iards. Of all her possessions in America,
Castilian dominion, with the exception of
a period less than a year, has remained
intact on the island, which is perhaps the
richest colony possessed by any European
power in any part of the globe. At an
early day the occasional eruptions of buc
caneers gave rise to the necessity of for
tifying its harbors. The seat of govern
ment having been transferred from San
tiago de Cuba (which is now identified
with one of the most barbarous massacres
of recent times) to Havana, defensive
works were erected at the latter place,
which have been continued and extended
until the city has become one of the
strongest in this part of tho world. For
many years Spanish galleons and flotillas
assembled at Havana before finally cross
ing the Atlantic. But while hostilities
raged in nearly every part of the West
Indies, the mother country being an act
ive participant, Cuba, with its 1,400 miles
of seacoast and its numerous harbors, re
mained free from the sound of hostile
cannon, except bn the two occasions to be
mentioned hereafter.
Havana has always been a naval head
quarters—was used for fitting out expe
ditions to operate against the enemies of
Spain; .but as the city was considered
almost impregnable, though it is actually
tbe key to the entire island, it was
deemed prudent to avoid attacking the
place. With Havana in the possession of
a hostile force the rest of Cuba would be
of little or no value.
PRESENT STRENGTH OF HAVANA.
The present strength of Havana is a
matter of the greatest interest. Its gen
eral plan of defences has been constructed
in the old style; but a profusion of treas
ure has of late years been expended to
render the city and harbor as far as pos
sible proof against all assaults. And it
is highly probable, from the fortifications
that have been erected, the precautions
that have been taken, the difficulties that
have been thrown in the way, and the
ease with which the defences themselves
can be used against attack that the cap
ture of Havana would be a difficult enter
prise to accomplish. The walls of the
city, running from the mouth of the har
bor across the peninsula to the inner
shore, enclose an eclipse of 2,000 yards
by 1,100 yards ; but at the present time
more than twice that space outside of
them is completely covered by buildings.
There are six forts, numerous land and
water batteries, forming a continuous
line running along both shores, besides
the walls and citadel. The forte are
named the Morro, La Cabana, Frincipe,
La Puntu, Atares and Numero 4, or San
Diego.
MORRO CASTLE
is deemed impregnable, but it is believed
a competent naval force could pass it.
Even if successful, however, 1,000 guns
could be brought to bear on the ships
after entering the harbor. For
among other reasons, military authorities
agree that if the place be taken it must
be taken by operations conductedon land.
La Cabana is as strong, if not a stronger
work, than the Morro. In 1762 the latter
was battered an entire day within short
range by three English line of battle
ships. They had to retire without mak
ing any impression, after being badly
disabled. Raynal, acompetent authority
says, "The Morro is raised so high above
the level of the sea that even a first rate
vessel of war could not batter it. But
La Punta has not the same advantage. It
is, nevertheless, so situated that .it can
only be attacked by a very narrow chan
nel, in which the assailants must be ex
posed to such a tremendous fire as few
would he able to withstand.
HA.VAN A CAN ONLY BE ATTACKED ON THE
LAND SIDE
■ with any hope of success, and, even
should such an attempt be made, the dif
ficulties to which a besieging army would
be exposed are almost insurmountable."
One of these is the great scarcity of good
water. It could only be found nine miles
from the city, and the people, aware of
its absolute necessity, would use every
exertion to cut off the supply. It would,
therefore, be necessary, in case of the
city being invested, that the besiegers
should have strong detachments in in-
trenchments to protect the watering
places and prevent communication with
the camp being interrupted. But this
difficulty, with all others, would be cer
tainly overcome by an enterprising* and
determined commander having adequate
resources at his disposal. It is clear,
however, that a large army would be re
quired to invest Havana, and a powerful
fleet to act in co-operation. All the in
surgents require is arms, and these could
be very easily landed on either tbe nor
thern or southern coast of the district in
which they operate. The patriot forces
would be able to take care of all the
Spanish troops outside Hsvana, where
riie garrison is reported to be 20,000, not
including the numerous ships-of-war,
with their sailors and marines.
IBON-CLADS AND PORT?.
A naval officer of very high rank is re
ported to have recently said that our navy
could easily enter Havana; that a fleet
can pass anything. He seemed to be un
der the impression that the forts and bat
teries have nothing heavier than 32-
Dounders, and that the Spanish authori
ses were without torpedoes—the only
things that can close a channel. It is
beyond question that the Spanish men-
of-war carry as heavy metal as vessels of
other nations, and it does not seem prob-
able they would neglect using them in
their land defences. The Spanish naval
officers are conceded to be very competent
in their profession, and the naval attacht
of their Legation at Washington cannot
have overlooked the special attention
given in this country to the matter of
torpedoes. But if, according to Raynal
and others, Havana can only be taken by
land, the work in the event of war would
become a comparatively easy one to the
United States. And at this point it has
to be mentioned that such was the opin-
ion of the English when the city was at
tacked and captured by them, after a four
days siege, in 1762. The large fleet of
10 ships of the line and 18 frigates that
accompanied the expedition were unable
to make any impression oh the sea de-
fence. The work was all on land. The
strength of Havana in 1702, in compari-
son with the British naval and military
force that appeared before it at that time,
was as great as it is to-day, taking into
account the advances made since then in
the science of war, when iron-clads, 600-
pound guns, repeating rifles and torpe
does are brought into operation.
THE ONLY POWER THAT EVER ATTACKED
CUBA
was Great Britain. On the first occa
sion the invasion ended most disastrous
ly ; on the second Havana fell into her
hands.
Boss Tweed'to Serve the State Twelve
Years In the County Prison.
New York, November 22.—The Court
of Oyer and Terminer is densely packed
this morning owing to interest in the
Tweed case. Counsel for the prosecution
and defense are all present. Tweed en
tered tho room followed by two deputy
sheriffs, who have been hi3 custodians
since conviction v John Graham began
an argument on a motion in arrest of
judgment, boldine that the act of the
Legislature taking the power of audit
from the Board of Supervisors and creat
ing the Board of Audit, of which Tweed
was a member, was unconstitutional.
Hence his client was not liable for acts
committed under an unconstitutional act;
this, and all the points raised by Mr!
Graham, were overruled by the Court.
When he concluded his address, which
was after recess, Mr. Tremaine moved
that tho prisoner be sentenced on each
separate count on the indictment, subject
only to such modifications as the Judge,
in his clemency, might make. Mr. Gra-
nam struggled to avert the penalty asked
for, and failing^ gave way to his emo
tions. Tweed himself seemed much af
fected.
The counsel having concluded their ar
guments, Judge Davis said it would be
unmanly in him to seek to eyade an ap
parent conflict between the views ex
pressed on the first trial of the prisoner
and those now entertained by the court.
He said he entered upon the present
trial, holding views entertained at the
firet trial, that the prisoner could be sen
tenced, if found guilty, to but one year’s
imprisonment and to pay a fine of $250,
but had changed those views after con
sulting all accessible authorities on the
subject.
After stating that by verdict of the
jury the number of convictions were fifty-
one, the judge said, if any one it
for due preparations, qs,- T —
ordered such counsel for tt tta
subscribed to a paper preset
the opening of the triM * J°- W l \
Monday morning next for tb 10 I
inquiring into their action
received his sentence c»i , Twe ed,
removed by Sheriff Bi-enn^ 1 ’. ."**
a strong force of deputy““eriff^W
is now sixty-six yea * 0 f a 7 s ’C
enough, the name of ^ S Un ou i ] r
also inscribed on the msrM , ^**«d ;■
main gallery of the jail tv 1 ** tit
placed years ago when the il 4
pervisors, of which he ^^ d s !
her, erected the building *** a
THE~v^sSi;
Statement of the I'nltM
sul at Kington,
Papers and Chame ™* w,,Ut8 <>tr I
Defalcation In the Freedmon’s Sat*
ings Bank at Washington City.
Under date of November 21st, the Cin
cinnati Commercial’s Washington cor
respondent telegraphs the following:
A new case of the prevailing epidemic
has just been discovered. William J
Wilson, cashier of the Freedmen’s Sav
ings Bank in this city, is to-night re
ported to be a defaulter. Nobody seems
to know the extent of his peculation, and
while some persons are of the opinion
that it cannot be large, there is reason to
'believe that it may prove to be in tho
neighborhood of one hundred thousand
dollars—possibly twice that amount.
Wilson is a mulatto, as in fact are all tho
of the bank, and he is said to
be intelligent and a good business man.
The discovery seems to have been made
a day or two ago that Wilson’s accounts
were irregular, and the, matter has been
Kjht t0 secure “y property
is agreeable for me to pass such judg
ment he is mistaken, for I would gladly
have the aceeptance of this position fall
upon other shoulders. I shall not shrink
from any feeling of ite harshness or se
verity to prevent the performance of my
single duty. Nevertheless, I have the
power, and in pronouncing judgment
I shall endeavor to exercise it so as to
temper justice in some degree with mercy.
It is deeply to be regretted that the
Legislature has not provided a long sen
tence and punishment to characterize of
fences of this kind in different form, and
fix penalties for each offense committed
in different forms from those which may
be imposed by our statutes. Public offi
cers who rob the people by appropriating
public moneys and allow others to do-eo
through their instrumentality or conniv
ance are, unfortunately, in the state of
our law, not to be adjudged felons or
punished by imprisonment in the State
prison, but escape under forms of indict
ment for misdemeanor, subject for each
to pay a penalty of $250 or a single year
in the penitentiary.
If this was a general verdict this would
be all the court could impose, notwith
standing that he took for his own use
more than a million dollars in the man
ner described. If there was a general
verdict rendered the court could only
pass through the farcical performance of
rendering judgment of two hundrel and
fifty dollars fine and one year’s imprison
ment for the audacious robbeiy 0 f tho
city and county of more than a million
dollars. Under the verdict the court has
larger powers, which it will exercise, and
I hope with prudence and due regard to
the interests of the public and example
to be made.
Tweed was then ordered to stand up,
which he did slowly, and on being asked
if he had anything to say why sentence
should not be pronoun :ed, replied almost
inaudibly "nothing,” his counsel adding,
he has spoken through his counseL
Judge Davis then resumed: “Wm. M.
Tweed, you stand convicted by a verdict
of-a jury of twelve honest men of a large
number of crimes charged against you
united in one indictment, and that ver
dict, in the opinion of the court, could
not have been otherwise without a viola
tion of the oaths which the jury had
taken an utter disregard of obligations
tinder which they rested .to speak the
truth and the whole truth.
"With the opportunity you had,had you
faithfully performed your duties to the
public, to win honor and respect of the
whole community, you saw fit to pervert
the opportunity you possessed and powers
with which you were clothed, in a man
ner more wicked, more infamous and
more outrageous than any instance of
like character which the whole history of
the civilized world contains. Instead of
protecting the public, you plundered it;
instead of standing where the law placed
you, over the treasury of your county,
you threw that treasury open not merely
to your own rapacity, but also to the
avarice of your associates under circum
stance which makes it transparent that
you were engaged in concerted conspir
acy to plunder the treasury of this coun
try, in which yourself and your associates
in crime were principally to be benefitted.
“The evidence on this subject can leave
no manner of doubt in the minds of any
that the commencement of it all was the
entering by you on those duties as Presi
dent of the Board of Audit, on the 5th of
May. The very next day after that your
cover of plunder began, and from that
day forward, consecntively, till the whole
one hundred and ninety accounts before
that Board had been audited and certi
fied, and warrants issued, and money
paid, the evidence is conclusive that the
whole proceeding was instituted to carry
out a concerted plan to enrich yourself
and those associated with you. If there
was no other testimony, that, in my
judgment, would be conclusively estab
lished by fact and that on each of the
separate claims as they were passed cm
and ultimately paid, your share of the
plunder was clearly fixed and prescribed
24* per cent.; wliilo the share of your
associates has been fixed by a somewhat
similar standard of plunder. It is im
possible to believe that the distribution
of 190 cases in which the moneys were
received on these warrants that just 24
per cent, of each sum should always be
allowed to you, without a concerted en
gagement that this exact sum should be
your fixed proportion of moneys of which
the county should be plundered.
‘Tt is in vain to suggest your trial and
conviction has been the result of any
partisan feeling, that this was, after all
as one or the jurors on the panel expressed
it, a struggle between the ins and the
oute. No; the whole struggle has been
a struggle between honesty and fraud
between virtue and crime.” The Judge
here, in vindication of the non-partisan
nature of the prosecution, alluded to the
Times m first giving figures the light,
great assistance rendered by
Chas. O Conner and Samuel J. Tilden in
preparations of legal proceedings, and
"It would be wrong and unjust to enter
tain for a moment tho idea that your con
viction has been the result of persecution
at tne bands bf any person or party. It
has been the result of evidence so clear
and plain that never have I seen a case
where evidence was so utterly overwhelm
ing, and where it was so impossible for a
jury to fail to come to a just and conclu
sive verdict. •’
Through the whole of this trial you re
mained up to the very moment of your
conviction as calm and serene as thou»h
you relied upon your innocence, when°it
was overwhelmingly apparent to all that
your serenity was only that audacity that
confidence m the omnipotence of corrup
tion, rather than reliance upon your in
nocence. [The judge emphasized this
sentence by bringing his clenched hand
down upon his desk.] The duty of the
court is now to pronounce upon vou the
sentence, a sentence that may be ade
quate to your crime."
The several counts on which Tweed'-
was found guilty were grouped, and fifty- !
one distinct sentences imposed, making j
ms term twelve years’ imprisonment in ‘
$15 750 nty JaI1, and im 2 0sin S a £ne of J
Counsel then gave notice they would
move for a hill of exceptions, and Judge
Davis said the session of the court would •
he prolonged, to give the counsel time '
lev uu,te Ot JNOV. 16
Thomas H. Pearne mrere
Consul at Jamaica^
and brings definite hdJSiSE* ^
to the arrival and departure of
grams at Kingston. The “* lir-
toKingstonincharge^ac^ 6
Soon after, Capt. Fry
York with authority from the omL ^ ew
the ship, given in the name It of
terson, of New York Cifyte
mand and take the vessel and ~ e Coa *
a Cuban port. About halfrf t S ° ^
deserted whenpreparetionTW
loading and sailing. All the **■
were perfectly o^n, and th e ^ 0Sj
common notoriety. Anno
and warlike stores of variou^Vi^? lati< ®
gathered and shipped All
persons on the ship undeKto d
character of the vessel and* Sf 1 *!*
sion. Mr. Pearne had two ^
with Captain Fry in re<4d
undertaking, and protested t • his
ms undertaking it, an( i a 2 u '-4
as his opinion that if th/% 6 ‘ l
lards captured him he would
shot; t._at every man on the cV ‘ ^
expedition. To these protesti^W*
Fiy replied that the Spaniards oSfe
M , lfc *ould be?<4 E0 0
blockade running, and as he hod v of
Confederate blockade runner iZ^J
that as the United States did »
prisoners captured in this hushLT
bpamards would not do it AWi
Mr. Pearne sought Capt. Frv
again attempted to dL^e
sailing. The Captain rephed teH^
whole matter was a question of breS fo
his family. If he could succeed ia4
rag his cargo where it was wanted it
would give him a large sum of mon’-v
and he was determined to make the
tempt at all hazards. There were about
a dozen Americans or English among tV
seamen shipped, and it is doubtful IfoZ
er all these had a veiy clear idea of the
character of the enterprise. Capt. IW,
papers were American, and : —'Vin i
regular in form, though the real staW
the vessel was a matter of common noto-
nety. *
. “ position taken by onr government
ra regard to the matter, in its dispatches
to Madrid, is that since the Virriniiu
canid American papers altogether,Wei
tae American flag, it was an act of ™ ie
discourtesy, if not of positive insult, to
try all on board, and proceed with the ei-
ecution in such a summary manner not
only without any notice to the United
States, hut by so controlling telegraph
lines that no orders preventing the elo
cutions could be received. It is believed
here that the United States has demand-
ed that this government shall be made a
party to the further trial of the prisoners
still unexecuted, and to passing upon tie>
status of the Virginius, and that xi
further insist that the conduct of those
ordering the executions shall be imme*
diately investigated by the Spanish gov
ernment.”
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial gives a somewhat
different version of Consul Pearne’s re
port He says:
“ Thomas H. Pearne, the American
Consul at Kingston, Jamaica, passed
through this city yesterday on his way
to his post of duty, and had a long inter
view with Secretary Fish. He stated
that Capt Fry appeared before him at
Kingston the day before sailing, and
made oath to his citizenship and to the
correctness of Iris papers, etc., which, of
course, were captured with the vessel.
Mr. Pearne is the only witness left. He
further stated that the Virginius had
been regularly cleared from his port
seven or eight times before.”
Spanisli Fleet in Cuban Waters
The captain of the Arapiles, the Span
ish war steamer now undergoing repairs
at the Brooklyn navy yard, informed a
reporter at New York, Wednesday, that
he had received orders from the home
government to get ready for sea at the
earliest possible moment, and proceed to
Cuba. He expects his vessel to be out of
the dry dock in twenty days, when noth
ing further will remain to he done except
to take on board her powder and arma
ment. Her powder is now in the yard
magazine, and her guns, which are of the
Armstrong pattern, and much praised by
yard officials, are at Cobb dock. The ex
ecutive officer of the Arapiles believed
that in addition to the fleet now in the
West India squadron there could be put
in the Cuban waters within the time spe
cified at least ten first-daes frigates, each
of about eight thousand tons register,
and carrying about twenty-four gnus-
Aside from these the Spanish-Cuban fleet
will, within a month, consist of the Arap
iles, 3000 tons register and seventeen
guns; Pizarro, 2000 tons register ana
five guns; Bia3CO, Vasco Menez, Hernan
dez Cortez, St. Lucia, Andalusia, Isabel,
Froncica and Amineza, all of the same
size and armament as the Pizarro, and
the Gerona, of 5000 tons register and
fifty-one guns. In addition to these
there should be mentioned thirty gnn-
boate b&ilt in New York city in 1859,
each of which carries a hundred-pouna
gun and fifty men.
A correspondent of a Connecticut pa
per writes from Groton, in that State:
“Last Friday Captain Buddington, of the
Polaris, returned to his home after an ab
sence of more than two years. It is sa-e
to say that he is the best slandered man
the country has produced since Gran,
fought the battle of Shiloh. But he loot’
bright, cheerful, and good-natured, a? 4
this all arises from good digestion and a
good conscience. ‘I have a good con
science,’ he says, 'and I can hear the a’-
VlUAfl/lli/vn iliABA /V v/lTUYn d 11 TllO. D®
journals ana memoranaum
ding the latest entries in Commodore
Hall’s journal, and by these he is ablet
disperse the wild rumors which have
raised against him. Hall, among his
entries, speaks of the faithful manner ^
which Captain Buddington has earn
out his orders. And why should he not-
Captain Buddington was his old and tri'
friend. Since 1860 they have ‘winter^
and summered’ together more than om
it was this Captain Buddington -
whom he made his voyage to Frobisner
straits in 1860-’62, and it wa3 this ^sam
Buddington that he thought of below
all other men, of whom he knew a nc= 1 '
for his north pole expedition.”
Pa thirsty citizen of Mattoon, Illmois,
pawned his pocket-book, gun, the.
steaks for his family supper, ana 0
molasses for whisky, and then went no
and held what may be figuratively ca
a carnival, and a good deal niore^ exp
sive than Italian opera. His
eluding that outside contributions w
necessary to defray the cost of the en
tainment, invited tHe saloon-keeper m
court on a suit for damages, andootam
$1,500. If her husband will go on anotn«
frolic this month she will have enotign
take her through a Cliristmas revel.
A paper in Troy, New York, says “
cry for work is heard at every corner,
the street.” A good many people m
city Spend a great deal of their ti®**
the street corners, but they don t"
work bad enough to cry for it.
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