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The Fajcilt Joorxu.-N*W8-Politics—Literature—AoarauLTURE—Domestic Affairs.
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MACON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 40, 1874.
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Janette’s Hair.
oli l.viscn the snood that you wear, Janette,
hl-i me tanylo a liand in your hair, my pet—
p,, r tho world to me had no daintier sight
Than your brown hair veiling your shoulders
whiti'i
A» I tangled a hand in your hair, my pet.
I! was brown, with a golden doss, Jnnette,
It was finer than «lh the floss, my pet; .
rfvrns a beautiful mist falling down to yonr wrist,
■7uas a thing to be braided, and jewelled, and
kissed.
'Jwss the loveliest hair in the world, my pet.
Mv arm was the arm of a clown, Janette,
jlV is sinewy, bristled and brown, my pet,
Rut wnrmlv and softly it loved to caress
no wrangling. I went into church, one
day and saw a club lying on the pulpit.
I inquired its use. “When my congre
gation get asleep I pound on the pulpit
with that to wake them up,” was his an-
; ewer. There was also a pole eight or ten
feet long which I was told the sexton
kept to poke into the ribs of sleepers for
the second offence. I can’t understand
how they get asleep. The seat3 are un
comfortable, about six inches wide,
straight in the back, with narrow ridges to
keep your head straight, and they never
have fire in the churches, although the
thermometer does stand forty-five de
grees below freezing point. Their Sun
day lasts twenty-four hours, beginning at
six Saturday evening. Sunday afternoons
are devoted to dancing. The Scandina
vians drink and get drank, bnt they don’t
have the tremens,' nor quarrel, nor fight.
The worst they do when intoxicated is to
kiss all the pretty girls they meet on the
street. There are churchyards GOO years
old that have no tombstones. The peo
ple are exceedingly religious. Every
V "‘I rjmnHfnl'nh.nn-Af"hir y ^ ° f trCSS ’! house has a bible or book of psalms. I
P y ,mypc. ■ saw numbers of men and horseback loads
of good things going into a house one
SsJSSasSisa ‘■L’SffiK*.**
“ ’Tisn’t that,” was answered, “the man
has lost his wife and they are holding the
FUNERAL JOLLIFICATION.”
These jollifications are continued for
days. The neighbors flock in, express
their sympathy and invite the afflicted
to drink. Of course he wa3 kept drank
by them, and I thought it‘a funny way
to mourn. 1 1 ■ -’l' ■ *
At last I got to the Land of the Midnight
Sun. I veatched.it throughout; the first
night, and remained there nearly seven
weeks. It bothered me to know when to
go to bed, my watch being out of repair.
I discovered the birds retired at 11' p. si.,
and gotnp at 2 a. si. Still further north,
and then musquitoes! Talk about your
New Jersey specimens, pshaw! Why,
they were so thick that you couldn’t’see
a man thr se feet off. I saw log houses
one hundred and fifty feet long, some of
Tmir eve* had a zwiraafinK ido**, Janette,
Keie.vlm? the dear old Story, my pet.
They were
sk.v.
When the trout leap* quickest to map the fly—
Ami they matebod with yonr golden hair, my pet.
Tour lips—but I have no words,. Janette,
Tl,ev Were a* fresh as the twitter of birds, my pet.
When the spring is young, and the roses are wet
With dew-drops in each red bosom set.
Anil they suited your gold-brown hair, my pet.
Oh. vnu tangled my life In your hair, Janette,
’Twas a silken and golden snare, my pet.
Rut so eentle the Itondage. my soul did implore
Tin- rivlit to eontinne a slave evermore, .
With my (lovers enmeahed in yonr hair, my pet.
H,u« eveT I drcnrn what you were, Janette,
With your lifis, and your eyes, and your hair, my
111 iEe darkness of desolate years I moan.
And my tears fall nitterlv over the stone
That rovers yonr golden hair, mv vet.
[Miles O’Bellly.
— m-s •»
LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN.
Lecture by Mona. Bn Clialllu—His Ob-
•.crvailonaanilEprrlcnces Where the ,tuem seven hundred years old. To Heat
Sun .Hlilnes at Midnight—A Decrlp- 'them wood fires'are,built in huge fire
lion ofthe People there—How they jplaces having very thick-walls.' These
Live—A ncmocratlc King — Funny , are fc.->pt up two or three days, and then
t'oiirtaliip* anti Marriage* — The , they have no fire for a week. Some of the
and
Price of a Wife —Mosquitoes and
Fleas. , .
From the Brooklyn Enjflc.]
THE LECTURE.
Ladies and gentlemen—I only came
back last week, and was pounced on by
the society at once. They said my name
was on'thoir tickets, and prevailed on me
to lecture, although I coi.l 1 make no
further preparation than referring to my
notes.
I grew tired of the Equator, and, for a
change, went to 71 degrees and'50 minutes
north latitude—to the land of the mid
night sun—where for three months the
sun do-s not set. The Swedes and Nor-
fine people; the country
farms have as many as forty-fiv^ houses.
There are houses for cheese,‘and for butter,
and this thing and that thing—I don’t
know what all. Each farm has two
dwelling-houses, one for winter and an
other for summer. Houses can be rented
for $5 a year. Carpenters’ wages are
forty-five cents a day, and yet they strike.'
Everybody works. Each ■ house has its
loom; they reave cloth and .make their
own garments. There, are no markets;
nothing is sold. * Whoever has' more than
he wants for himself 'he gives to whoever
needs it, • Tiie people are healthy. They
do not have consumption, and you never
see an emaciated form-- Yon never see a
wegians are fine people; tue country beggar either. If too poor to live they
splendid—the grandest I have eyer trav- are too proud to beg; and not mean
ellcl in. There nre evidences that it'Was ! enough to steal. The aubsistence is .sour
.me covered .with ice. The mountains j jnflk. coarse bread, meat twice a week,
vo -V- are stnoolh from this cause, and the, and fish. T: .
valleys slow the effects of ice-floes. In! Nearer yet to the Cape, and the horses
May; Juno, and July the .sun shines all and the'cows'and the. reindeer live on
tV time. It is a slander to call the Scan-
din.iviar l-irbaroiw.
Ther nre civilized; all read and write.
*ooy are compelled by law to attend
school. Their religious faith is Protes
tant. They esteem their churches highly,
and revere their graveyards. When a
man dies Iiis-body is interred in a grave
yard if it has to be carried a hundred
miles. The clergymen, who are also
teachers, ara looked up to and greatly
respected. The people are honest and
moral. I was never robbed of a cent,
though with them three years; why. the
women put their jewelry in my room to
show they were not afraid of me. To be
sure the devil walks among them, but
not often. , •
A DEMOCRATIC KINO.
When in Stockholm I had a desire to
see the King, so I wrote to the, Secretary
of State. I was politely informed that
his Majesty had gone v siting, hut would
fish, eaten raw. Still nearer and the cows
have nothing but boiled sea-weed to eat.
In degree- sixty-eight farm horses are
scarce,the traveling unpleasant,and done
on foot or bv boat. Tu t’ie oimmer it is
wet, and the mosquHi-.* Tnvre’ycm no
peace. !' ' i . T
At length I reached seventy-one de
grees fifty minutes, the -Cape, the north
ern end of Europe. The coast of Norway
is magnificent, its harbors ‘ lined with
steamboats; its mountains, high and
grand, are covered with glaciers; its wa
ters so clear that the bottom of the sea
is discernible. Sweden hears no compir-
ison to it. In going from the City of Ton-
jin, towards Sweden, don’t sleep under
the skins they offer. Such fleas, and
speh numbers! Grogs shops are one hun
dred miles apart up there. They buy
whisky by the quantity, and keep drank
while it lasts. j : r , ,
COURTSHIP AND MARRIACE.
return in two days. When he arrived I are peculiar institutions. I saw one
was invited to call on him at 12 o’clock | match made. He met her at the gate,
that day. I went to the palace expecting j and poked his fingers in her ribs, and
to see soldiers—infantry, cavalrymen,
•artillerymen—but there was only one sol
dier. and he did not even ask mo where
I was going, or what I wanted. I went
up stairs unchallenged, and at length in
tercepted a servant, by whom I was di
rected where to find the King.
‘•Good morning,” said he.
“Good morning,” I responded.
And this was our introduction. In less
than three, minutes he asked me to have
a cigar, : and then showed my books,
which had been translated. I felt proud;
it «as an honor to have them in his lan'
said:
“I want to get married, don’t you ?”
“O, I don’t know. Go away.”
“Yes.you do; let’s get married.”
‘Well, ask papa.”
“No, never mind him, we’ll get mar
ried anyhow.” - j.......
And he went around telling everybody
he saw, “I’m going to marry that girl.”
The preparations continued during the
three weeks required by law to have the
bans publUhed-in tho churches. Fishes
were caught, stores for the feast laid in,
beer brewed, and whiskey purchased.
“O, you are rich, j on must give me
giiage. He asked me to come and spend' Wedding jollifications are' indulged in a
the next day with him. I went, and week. This couple were married. They
roamed through the palace in search of j went from the church to tho house, and
its owner. Finally I hallooed, “Is there j the bridesmaids loeked the bride in her
any one about?” and succeeded in arous- room. The groom knocked at the door,
iag some one, who pointed me to a room. “How much will you give to come in ?”
I entered it, and found the King just “Two cows and $5.’’
putting on his coat. He had been at “That’s not enough.*' rl ,•
work painting. I was hospitably enter- I “Three cows and $10.’
tained. When about leaving I requested | “O, you are ri<
some of his portraits to give to the girls : more than that.”
in Brooklyn. He pleasantly complied, 1 - Five cows and $25 v as the final offer,
writing on them, at my solicitation, his ’ which was accepted, and the ceremony
autogiaph. “Now,” said he, laughing,' consummated. In writing to a ladv you
“you must send me some portaits of do not use the nanje, but address it to
Brooklyn girls.” I thought he was a 1 her father like this:. “John Jones’
splendid man. | daughter,” and add the name of the
The people are civilized and gentle- farm; •* '•'-'- 'ct .rot ■ I
tunnly. You travel on a railroad and, Many havo the impression Lapland is
stop for dinner. The hotel table is.set, dark in. the winter, but that is an error,
well supplied; everythingclean apd neat. The country is illuminated by northern
T.iere is no ruah.no gormandizing, no’ lights every night. I wanted to see the
shouting for "waiter,” or “Johnny,” but Laps, and drive a reindeer. They can go
«seh one sits down and helps himself, fuid fifty miles an hour for two hours doily,
the utmost decorum prevails. Liquors The sledges are narrow, have an oscillat
or,■ not sold,—that is. no intoxicating ing motion, - and one unaccustomed to
drinks—no brandy. Railroads are scarce, them will tumble put in all -directions,
hut the highways, some of them a thou- y 0 u drive .with one line only—that
sand miles long, cannot be beaten in any reaches from tho animal’s horn, and is
•xmntry. Most of the travel is made by tied around yorir ami. After you get
-tuge. You can ride sixteen English , pitched ont, the reindeer stops when he
ulilcs for about thirty-five cents. Hotels, is tired of dragging you-through the
are seven or eight miles apart. Their snow. Sometimes they bout-face and
fare 5 - — J ■’ * " —T.-ZA 5_ s ;—* ■‘—“-K——
immense forests of fir and pine. These, along, two hundred yards at the-rate of
forests are the wealth of the land. T.he ' nearly a mile a minute. There were
people are farmers of democratic ideas.'Laps ahead and Laps behind, in case of
Landowners worth half a millionhate : aocidlint, add they came to thfe fescue
their servants eatattho table with them--i pretty oftfcn: I learned ithd business in
“of as they do in America; in the pities ; four days, being tumbled, put the; first
this custom is not allowed, and you find day one hundred and ten times ;,-the sec-
«hignons and crinoline, as yon do in Amer- ;ohd, seventy;,tlfe third, thirty;.the
ica. Travelers art? , : ” ■ j fourth, ten; next day, no • times; find I
always welcome. 11 ''' "' j thought that was bully. The;.cold was
The citizens generally speak French,' forty-five degrees below zero, yet, I did
English and German. Gymnastics are * not, puffer from it- The climate is dry
taught in the schools for health. They 1 and healthy., Wq drove to An acquaints
particular in their sanitary rejgula- anco whd bwned 4,000 reindeer. T went
turns. j i j! - , t? .' * "*
In the seventy-first degree you can be
taught Greek, Hebrew and Latin.
The expense of t traveling 700 or 800
^ules is about'seven' or eight dollars, by
T «sal, With good board too. Proceeding
on my journey yet further north, toward'
•“y oV.jictrre poirt, the North Capo, I
meetnnew expert,-nc'-s and learn new
Lungs. -I fin.!/for one thing, that the
borses won’t: -carry you up-hilL j -When
they reach' the foot of one' they look
around to see you qnit thp carriage; if
JonJdonT thbystopi That is the l a Iresult
« early truning-4-the custom tiie own
ers have of walking up the hills. The
4X»ple are never in a hurry. They have
posure to the cold, They are intelligent
and honest. I left a bag of gold, $500, in !
a house, and the woman followed me 1
thirty miles to bring it. I offered her $20,
which she indignantly refused; in fact, . . ., » „ __ i
she would accept no present, so I kissed du f m S tho month of December. Ofthepe
her. At first she was astonished; I kissed only eighteen were white. **• j ,)f» w
her again, and she got accustomed to it.' f A New York correspondent fat informed
A kiss was all I could give her that cost that the holders of the fraudulent State
years, and have eight hundred photo- e ff°rt on the Georgia Legislature, and
graphs of landscapes, glaciers and water- ' failing to effect a recognition of the valid-
falls, one waterfall 1,047 feet deep; I saw ity 0 f the bonds by that body, to bring
A journey from New York to Christi- Court. It is stated that a pool has been
ana can be made in twelve days. I won- ' formed of all the bonds, 'and ten per cent
der more tourists do not go there. The of their par value subscribed to- effect
summers are warm, the winters are cold, . .. , ,,
bnt charmingly healthy. The hotels can- ^orable legislation. Aa these bofida
not be surpassed, and their charges are ®ffff r ®ffate some seven millions, the cor-
moderate. "" I ruption fund must amount to seven hun.
The subject of Scandinavian emigre- 1 died thousand dollars. • j f .'i •• r ■
i, o»»KTr.-w ecUp
hers increase rapidly. They are law- following from the last Perry Journal
abiding, God fearing, honest, and mind I' A Savage Fioht.—The.negroes on Mr.
their own business. I L. D. Norwood’s plantation; gave a snp-
——. ' • per Saturday night. Two of them got
Some of Bnsteed’s Little Gomes. 1 jealous of each other, and after quarrel-
One Busteed, a New York “shyster” t awhile, had a regular dog 'fight,
whom old Abe made a Federal Judge, T^ W9d ^l bit ’ J*?
, . . ., , . 4,i. b dust settled, one of them had lost his left
and sent to Alabama to persecute those cheek and the other his right middle fin-
hapless folk who found themselves inside ; ger.
the Yankee lines towards the close of the ! Travel.—The Perry railroad is doing
late civil war, is in danger of very unjust a jery goodpoasengju: buaiiiesa now. Be-
4. 4. 4. 4. 4.1. , z, , ,. . ■ , Sides the large number of whites “on the
treatment at the hands of his party, go,” the many freeds on the way to Ar-
They talk of impeaching him for various kansas add considerable to the revenue
trifling offences, some of which are set ‘ °f fhe rood • • ' : t,i. - u-* -j.it
forth in the Cincinnati Commercial’s 1 Ai * kassab Travelers. ^ Emigrant
m • . - ... i agents are now as.t^nck as blackberries
Washington correspondence as follows: j in Jun e m this county. They are per-
Articles of impeachment.in the case of suadingmany negroes to go to Arkansas,
Judge Busteed, of Alabama, will be pre- and many more are anxious to get off.
pared and presented by the week: after Two'or three hundred have left the county
next. It is thought the charges will be in the last month, so far as we have been
that bo never has been, and is not now, a informed. Some of our planters are much
resident of Alabama; that hois guilty troubled about their exodus, while others
of receiving a bribe, the specification be- say it is tho very thing we need. All we
ingthathe was paid $50,000 for throw- have to say is let them go if they want
ing the Meridian railroad into bank- to—tye are not their guardian. Our peo-
ruptcy, and that he has appropriated pie here can fill their places wit! 1 hogs
public funds to his own use, in that and cattle which the loyal freedmen do
on one occasion he procured the pay- not how permit to vegetate in the same
ment of a thousand dollars of firies and clime—our provisions and- fertilizers will
penalties, the property of the United be made at home, and if the areas planted
States in the hands of the United States are reduced, and the number of bales di-
Marshal, to settle a suit brought against minished, we will be mere independent,
him. There are a great, many 'other and have more cash at the end of each
charges equally susceptible oi proof, and year. • • 1 • : '■ i ■
equally criminal, which might be brougut The Ame ricus Republican says Mr. R
against him, but it is believed that those ^ , f ' -
mentioned will be sufficient for the pur- Chappell, of: Webster county, died at
pose. When the Alabina and Chatta- Smitbville, Lee county, last Thursday, of
nooga railrojul was thrown into bank- a disease reported to be yellow fever.
At an election last Tuesday for aider-
man of Americus, caused by a tie vote
between Messrs. Sirrine and Cobb, the
latter was beaten 145 votes by John B.
Felder. :
Col. W. B. Bennett, senior editor Of
the Quitman Banner, was ordained as a
Baptist preacher last Sunday week. If
the Colonel was a fanner and member of
the Legislature, now, he would have his
hands tolerably full. t. :
Without a Home.—The Chronicle and
Sentinel of Saturday says: T' :*
A genuine specimen of tho backwoods
country cixL was taken in charge ^ at ttye
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Fifty-skven couples took stock in the
matrimonial gift enterprise - at Savannah,
Union Depot yesterday by a policeman
and escorted - to the City Hall. When
the policeman informed the officer in
charge that he had arrested his prisoner
raptcy by Busteed,’ lie required of the
State a deposit of ninety thousand dollars
to secure,the interest of the State. Ready
cash not.being, available,* the Governor
deposited one liuridrtd thousand dollars
•of State bonds with Judge Busteed. Bus’-
teed took these boaJstoXew York where
he deposited them as collateral for a
loan of sixty thousand dollars from one
of the thirty banks, with which he went
on a tour to Europe. The State was af
terward compelled to redeem the bonds.
Busteed’s home is on Staten Island, and
he remains there when his court is not in
session. ~ :
It-is to be Hoped these charges will be
kept from Grant’s knowledge, or- he
ml(-ht withdraw ‘William*’ name- for
Chief Justice, and send in Busteed’s.
How that petty landaulet business dwin
dles into insignificance when compared
with Bnsteed’s magnificent operations, at the depot, where she had been loafing
m~+-m . for several days. Cracker bonnet very
Exit Gastelar. ! °almly and with a smile that was “child-
,,, ...... x, -i4.ri4.i ! like and bland” hovering about her lips,
After a brief reign President Castelar ^ „ You - Ue> yotul „ ^ you fo &,{
makes his exit from his uneasy position, me jn the kar shed!” The girl said
as head of the Spanish Republic so-call- that she was originally from Jackson
ed, and Marshal Serrano, a soldier, puts county, lately from Athens ; name, Myra
,, , t— ... , - Dimcan; had no home, and didnt-know
on the robes. How this change af- where to find one. When asked if she
feet the fortunes of the bantling republic intended to go into service;,; she very con-
seems uncertain, but it surely has a look, temptuously replied: “Ketch me at that;
at this distance,, of danger. It may be it s too much like a nigger.” . , .
that this is the answer of the Spaniards TnE Western Union Telegraph boys of
to Castelar’s recent negotiation with the Savannah office, presented Mr. W.
Grant Government cm the Yirginius Turner, late manager of the office,
question, and that trouble is ahead for ™than elegant silver tea service; Lost
theU. S. Of Serrano, the New York - Friday. ......
Herald says : • 1 • Lien Law and Homestead.—The fol-
Serrano is well known as the leader of lowing letter from a Monroe county plan-
the faction which aims to place the Prince ter appears in the Griffin Star:
AUonseonthe throne. During the mi- The winding up .of the crops has left
nontyof the Prince the control of the the farmers in thc country, with few ox-
nahona affairs would remain wrth the ceptioI13> in debt, and developed a large'
Marshal, who. ^ head oUhe army, would P ount f ral iurpituda. I do not
know what the people will do. who have
ear-rings an^a California diamond breast
pin that weighs six'pounds. The msg?
nificent andgorgeous Clark and thepious,
"benevolent Hemphill, announce' that they
shall continue the lottery business indefi
nitely, and that the capital prize in the
next scheme will be the Sunday-school
library of Bri). Whidby, at Stone Moun
tain/ When Our'’Atlanta brethren get
through their gambling spree/we trust
their country brethren may be'refreshed
with a little editorial matter, at least
equal in strength to the raphsodies of
mother goose, in her famous melodies.
Of the late death in Griffin of Dr. F.
G. Castlen, formerly of this city, the Star
says the coroner’s jury returned a verdict
that “he came to a natural death from
some unknown cause.” The r bqdy ap
peared congested' when seen tiy the jury,
and it had apparently been dead- some
hours. Nothing could be • found in the
zifax to excite any. suspicion, and his
clothes were lying just as he placed them
tlae night before, along with some clean
linen he had arranged fob' the morning.
> (Messrs. T, P. Roulett & Co., of Au-
gdsta, whose ’store was -rebbed - of eight
hundred dollars .on Christmas eve; have
recovered- $274.25 of the amount from a
young man named. Judge Fair, who was
tufeOted .and confessed that he was-the
thief. \. ,!• I'd wfJ n' >kw Ji tndt 1
Harvey Lewis, white,, attempted, to
kill his wife with* hatchet at Augusta,
on Saturday.; ■ Her skull ires-fractured,
and her entire body terribly beaten and
bruised. A woman named Ettio Henry
assisted the wretch in his bloody work.
».A- Parson r ,iN, Trouble.—Under, this
head, the Savannah Advertiser of Sunday
saVi: ‘ *° . !
For some time past an investigation
ha# been going on At the church [Baptist)
of which the Rev. William O. Darsey is
the pastor, of certain charges agairist Mr.
Darsey. These charges 'consist of con
duct unbecoming' a minister. He is,'’-or
has been, accnsed of making undue ad
vances to a young lady, who is a member
of~ his congregation. ’- Our informant
stated that the young lady referred , to
had been a strict and regular attendant
at the church,' and that she ceased very
suddenly to go any mote. Upon; being
interrogated b£ her' mother she refused
to give her reasons, but when pressed for
an excuse she stated that her pastor, Mr.
dJarsey/sought ererv opportunity to make
unbecoming propositions to ber. We were
informed that the ease had been reported
to'certain' hading members of : the
church, and that an investigation had
commenced 1 but was not yet concluded.
List. evening Mr. -Darsey Called to' see
.us and informed us that at the last meet
ing of the official members of the church
he was : acquitted of the changes *by. a
unanimous vote of the investigating com
mittee. 7 ■- r.t :s '
THE EARLY TRAIN.
be more absolutely master of the situa
tion than ever Prim or O’Donnell had
been.
The pretence that under Serrano’s
government the Repnhhcwomd be mam- abtmt (lried up . The homestead law gave
tamed is simply put forth to luU the pop- ^ fche n ^ rtew; , and * ogeth9r , ^
ulaee into acceptance ofthechangounul develo ^ more and ^ed more
such time as tue monarchists will have i ra ^ t le than anything else. The
into his tent, and found' men/ women;
dogs and. other animals sleeping together,
and I found so many fleas there that I
took my bag and went out to 'sleep .w a
snow-bank. All tho Christians read and
write, school attendance b-ing ^compul
sory. Their mode of locomotion is funny.
They wear snow-shoea ten feet long and
four fefet • wide,- and go" sliding‘about in a
; : , - : O0MICAL MANNER.. ,
• i The natives live.on reindeer meat and
coffee. All the money gathered, by I sel
ling the smoked meat and skins..of -their
animals is bartered for coffee, which they
drink continually. Their hair is flaxen,
eyes blue, skin exceedingly, white, cheeck
bones high, and faces very red from ex-
assured their position. The policy of Ser
rano will not be allowed to dei>end -upon
his own whima or convictions. He is only
the agent of the men who are re
solved to rule Spain for their own ad
vantage and according to their old des
potic notions. They call themselves by
many names, bfat they may be classed
generally as monarchists, with tenden
cies towards a centralized military gov-
ernm.jnt. , ~ '
former ought to be modified, and th'e lat
ter repealed, so that people could be
forced to be honest, and pay their debts
or not'make any. In.'other words, if a
planter “can’t, toat his own skillet, let
him be content with a, frying, pan until
ho cantoAt it” ,
The same paper has a detCription of
• the drawing for prizes in the Constitu
tion enterprise on the first instant/from
; • ■ • r -' which waextract the following :
A Strange Story About an Owl. The ^^tion hAd its draWing of
Bath County (Ky.) News.) 1 ' prizes for subscribers oh New Yertr’s Evo,
“ Onr old friend, James Case, tells the at James’lHall, in presence of a largo au-
following strange.; owl stdry: It seems dience, most of whom.were ticket-holders,
that Mr. James Warner, .residing near The balance were attracted thither from
Mr. C.’s, has been doing a considerable cariosity. At the outset, Col.,Adair an-
amount of trapping for the last few nounced that' owing to a circnmvility.pf
months.’ While setting his traps some a respectation, the prizes would have to
time ago, ho concluded that he would bait be scaled down, and under this scaling
for a large bird which he believed had process, the magnificent ten-story build-
been bothering his chicken roost of late ing, worth twenty thousand dollars, would
days., He accordingly did so, and npon put in a substitute in the shape of $)2u0
the morning after, upon going to visit his in gold. Austell said it'was “korreqt,”
traps,'was nidch'surprised at finding one and the ticket-holders acquiesced,.tbjep.
of them gone—‘bait and trap both gone, the drawing began, and so did the excite-
and no owl; but the sequel is., to come. ment. It was soon discovered that.nQV-'
The other morning, Mrs: Rodgers/ who ellettea were'the favorite prizes. These
lives sorme ten mflfei away from Mr. were gotten up at wholesale, out of Ap-
WaraerV hearing some disturbance in pleton’s remnants of .unsalable books,
the henhouse among the chickens, now out of print. They are very inter-
arose quickly, and taking.a light went esting works—to the author—but to no
out to see what was matter ‘ with' one' else. OccasiohaHy the scene would
them, ‘thinking ’ it wAs ’ probobiy a be enlivened by some one drawing an old
fox- By making a oareful and sudden - patent office report. This was considered
effort she succeeded in .cafehipg the ob- a big thing. In process of time the big
ject, and to hergreat surprise.[oundit prize had to come, and so it did. George
was a huge owl. Bui'^ 'strange part Adair exhibited the card amidst tremen-
is to come. Attached to the owl was Mr. does excitement. Every hair in George’s
Warner’s trap' and -about ten inches of whiskers turned a back somersault, and
chain. It :seepos that, {t
broken out of the steffi .
where the'tooth"was l>rohqn Out the jaws . , _
of thef trap had firmly held the leg of the farmers at Paoli, Ga., had drawn the big
bird.’cuttingtffl tooVmd quite to the bone, prize. There was-immense enthusiasm
but without injuring,tlj.a latter. • Theleg, and great gheering for the fanners, which
however, by,this,time, was recovered and subsided when it was reported that
well the wound having had ample time Hemphill was president of that my thical
to cure during the Iwb-ihcfnths that*had Paoli Club.--'This denouement pretty
passed since the cnrl first'flew away-with much closed; the performance;-e We learn
the trap. What wonderful tenacity of that Griffin drew a good many valuable
life exhibited by the bird! what .tortures prizes', but owning to lack of ti&nsporttf-
musthav'e tfDm_the P«>r owl as he passed tloh, they TiAve not -arrived:' Howeref;
along hi3 way dragging the terrible trap the 'ticket-holders ate not’, worsted; for
and chain. ”. Jj J f.d> -u-q - ‘they get the: worth.,of their^noBey.enyj
how in good reading matter. Thq ' ■
How Mr. and Mrs. Prlnce l’assed an
U ... ; Anxious Night,
Prom the Danbury News.} (
j The early morning train from Danbury
loaves at half-past six. This U a very
b -isonable hour in the summer; when
people axe stirring, turds carolling their
melodies, and the incense from the newly
awakened flowers filling the air tmd‘in
spiring the senses. But in the winter
time,-with animal'and vegetable life dead,,
the air raw and chilly, .the .matches mis
laid, and a gloomy darkness .wrapping
the face of tho earth as, if with jv pall,
half-past six o’clock, a. m., is a very un
reasonable and disagreeable hour, and the
man who has occasion.to leave home on
that train 'may easily be pardoned' the
uneasiness unavoidable the.day before.
Ourleg;.l friend;'Prince, received infor
mation bn Friday which made ■ it neces
sary that he should be in New York
before Saturday noon. He’ contemplated
the early start with some misgiving,
and determined to make the best prepa
ration for-it by getting to bed early. Some
people would not have thought of this, and
remained up until their nsual hour, - and'
have either overslept themselves, or have
ayakehed unrefresh6d or depressed- Mr.
Prince went to bed at’9 o’clock, and got
to sleep abont half-past 11. r When he
awoke it was at tho earnest solicitation of
Mrs; Prince’s toes, which were digging
vigorously into his bock, while ,Mrs.
Prince’s hands and Mrs. Prince’s voice
were otherwise engaged in his interests.
Mr. Prince jumped up at once, and in
quired, the time, which Mre., Prince was
not able to inform Him exactly, but yas
quite confident by the general feeling
and-looks that -it was bard on-to - car
time. Mr. Prince snatched up his clothes
at this, and flew, into the sitting room,
and straightway got into his clothes, and
then.examining his. watch, found' that it
was ten minutes past 12. “By crackey,”
said Mr. Prince, and Immediately' re
turned to bed, and encasing l)iq, $ead be
neath the clothes,' preserved a inoody ai|d
fence in answer to Mrs. Prince'? inquiries.
It finally dawned on that excellent
lady that the hour was toot early;
and she soon went to sleep. Bpt there
was no immediate sleep.for her husband.
Ho . felt gloomy and dissatisfied,, and
seemed weighed down with the, impres
sion that he was to mis3 the train in spite
of all he could do to avert.the- calamity.
He carefully reviewed his pastr life, ar
raigning himself _a3 a student, a lawyer,
a citizen and a,husband, to sea if there
was anywhere in his record an act, a
word, or a thought, which .by thei finest
ingenuity could be distorted into a crime
for which this ; losing the train might;bes
considered a,fitting judgment. ,But in
vain bb went oyer the past for such a
provocation, and; finally assigning ' the
cause to a dispensation of fate none of us
can avert, he, too, fell asleep. r When he
awoke again he found Mrs. Prince’s
toes ,at; his..pack, .find, Mrs, i J
hands at his shoulders, and M^.,.
voice; in his- ear, and a vivid;impres8ion
on r hfe mind ‘ that the trfuq.,had,gone
or that|the;whistle would sound.befere he,
could get out of bed. .But he arose and
hurried into.the sitting room witha'Bhbw
of interest, and drawing oin.,his , clothes,
desperation, and ascertained that it was
just2 o’clock.. He dida’t say 'fjbygw&keg: ?’
this, time. But it is no,matter, what he'
said. . . j Ho , skipped back to the bed-room
without any loss of time, and appeared
before Mrs.,,Prince with; A damp in one
hand and' a. lot of clothes, t in tihe other,
aud with s good deal of fire in his eye.
But he blew out the light in AueUq e. and
then'geftii
heifnoi'fib 1 PVi
ness might coether pain. . ThdnextMthe.
he aroused liimself. . .It.-yra? 4ycfclock.
This was a little, earlier than, was kbsb^'
lutely necessary, hut 'for fear it missing
the train tie remaihed'Up.' First baijefully
dressing.himseif.'he kind led the fire in the
kitchen, and;-thought fif thet excellent
breakfast he witti hijn, wWle^
Mrs. Prince lay and slept. ' At half-past
7 she awoke of Her own accord, and'find-
iHg: the- bread:‘daylight,streaming into
tba window, j«mf¥>d up with sincere re-
And then she went into the kitchen, and
was struck motionless at the sight before
her. For there was Prince with a carpet
bag clutched tightly in one hand, and a
roll of legal documents in the other, sit-'
ting bolt upright in & chair—dost asleep.
Astonished and confused at this specta
cle, and hardly knowing what she was
doing; ! Mra. Prince got the woman in the
other part of the house to arouse Mr.
Prince, While she stole over to her moth
er’s to see about something.
Zach. Chandler Astonished.
The Washington Capital, which takes
special pains to let the world know some
of the good points in Senator Chandler’s
character, tells a very good story about a
hew member of Congress, who arrived in
that city the other evening, with his
family, consisting of his wife, five chil
dren and nurse. He had come impressed
with the idea that Washington was a
rather high-priced place for a man to
live in, and so, to save exnense, he packed
his whole family into one hack, at nine
p’clock in the evening, and ordered the
driver to proceed to Willard’s. Arriving
at the hotel, they paid the hackman, or
dered their tranks off, and trudged wea
rily, halt asleep, into that famous cara
vansary. . The husband, wife and four
children were escorted into the supper
room, after which, elevated by the coffee
and the elevator, they were carried be
yond the jurisdiction of the board of pub
lic works, to rooms under the roof. We
wish. to explain here, that as one gets
near heaven he gets further from the
board that excavates only, and is not
odorless 1 either. When the good lady
entered her bed-room, she encountered
the nurse, and both exclaimed,
.“Where’s Bobby ?”
' “Why, ..misses,” said the nurse, “I
thought.you had him.”
‘ “Nancy!” screamed the Mrs. M. C.,
“didn’t you fetch him in f*
“No, mum; I had the three carpet
sacks, the cloaks and baby’s clothes, and
I thought you had him.”
.‘.Now, Bobby was the baby, and the
frightful discovery was made that the
baby had been left in the hack. There
was a'frantic rush for the elevator and
the staira.- The insane M. C. tried to
Disastrous Fire In Eaton ton. a House oa Staten Island Robbed by
Eatonton, Ga., January 6,1874.
Editors Telegraph, and Messenger: We
have just bad another very disastrous
fire, which broke out about 8 o’clock this
morning, and. consumed nine .business
houses—All that was left from the fire
of November 1871, of the old line of bus*-
iness houses on the Court-house square.
But for a calm night, with a drizzling
rain, all the’ new stores, including Har
vey’s brick row, would have been lost.
Owing to the excitement and the man
ner in which goods are scattered, it is im
possible to get a correct estimate of the
loss.
The. following are the sufferers: Pal
mer & Denham, dry goods and shoes,
saved all their goods; building owned by
C. S. Credillo, $1,000. J. A. Champion,
groceries and confectioneries; saved near
ly all his goods. G. W. Ross, groceries
and liquors; ■ total loss. The two latter
buildings owned by M. G. Linch, $1,000.
J. A. Martin & Co., groceries and liquors;
total loss; building owned by Dr. J. T.
DoJamette, $1,000. A Phillips, dry
goods / saved about half; building owned
by T. B. Harwell, $1,500. J. A. Morris,
dry goods and clothingsaved about half;
building owned by Mrs. Green and J. T.
Davis, §1,500. W. H. Hearn, groceries
and provisions; saved about three-fourths;
building owned by W. T. Hearn, $1,500.
C. D. Leonard, groceries and liquors;
saved all, but lost building, $1,000. J.
Lowy, dry goods; saved all; building
owned by estate of Andi ew Reid, $1,000.
W. M. Jefferson, editor and proprietor of
Eatonton Sunbeam; total loss/ •** '■
The fire originated immediately under
Mr. Jefferson’s office, and is supposed to
be the work of an incendiary. He is ab-,
sent from home and knows nothing of his
loss. It is a sad blow to him. All his
material was new, he having only com-
msneed the publication of his paper a
short time »"o.
None of the sufferers had any insu
rance. All the goo is saved are more or
less damaged. ; ,1 !!(•*■ ?i—f...-... ( t A.
Mrs. Westmoreland.
We have received from a friend in New
! York city a copy of a recent issue Of the
Armed Men.
Tfie Servants Bound and Gagged—
The Safe-Blown Open with Gun*
powder.. >v. ;i
From the New York Evening Post, Dec. 31.J
A robbery of most daring and extraor
dinary character was committed last night
at the house of Mr. William K. Sou ttcr,
in West New Brighton, near Sailors’Snug
Harbor, Stated 'Island. ’ Mr. Soutter is a
wealthy banker, doing business at No. 53
William street, in this city. His resi
dence is on the main street.in West New
Brighton, not far from the road, and with
Other dwellings in the neighborhood. Oa
the grounds, about GO feet from his house,
is a stable, with rooms in the second sto
ry for his coachman and groom. About
a week ago, Mr. Soutter, his wife- and
daughter, came to pass the Christmas
holidays with some of their friendsin this
city. They left in their house three
female servants and a man servant
named Robert Armstrong, who is & young
fellow about twenty years old As the
coachman, Edward Jackson,' and the
groom, William Baldwin, slept in the
stable, within call, the premises were
supposed to be perfectly secure, although
the house contained a large quantity of
siver plate and other valuables; Mr.
Soutter visited his place yesterday, but
retimed before evening. At about 9
o’clock last evening, while Armstrong
and two of the maid servants were sit-
ting in the kitohen, the rear door of the
house, which was unfastened, wa3 sud
denly thrown open, and a number of
men entered the room. In the fright
and bewilderment occasioned by thp sub
sequent procedings, the servants could
not be positive' as to tho exact
number of the intruders, which is
variously stated at .from [nine to
twelve. The men were all masked and
armed. They seized young Armstrong
and one of the women, taking them by
the throat to prevent an outcry, and one
pursued the other woman, named Mar
garet, who endeavored to escape from
tho house through the laundry window.
The latter was caught by the robber, who
placed a pistol at her head, and threat
ened to shoot her if she uttered a scream
or called for help. Revolvers were also
leveled against the other inmates of the
house, including the third female ser
vant, who had been asleep in an upper
chamber, and came down when awakened
by the disturbance -below. All were
threatened with instant death if they
made the slightest attempt to give an
alarm. The robbers then proceeded to
bind and gag Armstrong and the other
servants—Margaret, Joanna and Mary.
A pair of steel handcuffs had' been
_ ... 4, 4 ^ r-.i, |1( _ forced over Armstrong's wrists "when
oer . of the hack, and.' hacks are not re- ister, lias also- seen the same issue of the | they first entered. The men took a table
' cloth, which was in the room, tore it into
strips, which they knotted together so as
to form ropes. With these they securely
aWaly at the bell until he broke it; then, * city, and which contains the portrait of
—-—: 1 -- J 3 ~— the above named lady. We'cannot say
much of the picture either as a'work of
art or as a faithful likeness of the orig
inal,but the text of the “Graphic”in call
ing attention to it is very complimentary,
which may possibly be considered a fair
set off to'the deficiencies of the picture.
. Col : . John, ^orsythx of the Mobile Reg-
shouting “fire,” rushed down after his
wife and four Children, who, by this time,
were in the clerk’s office, trying to make
the corpulent and amiable Mr. Bagley un
derstand the'horrible situation'.
Some one suggested the telegraph, and
all the police Stations were advised of this
loss of congressional infancy. But the
Worst part of it was that the crazy repre
sentative could not remember the num-
poarkable for their ready return of lost , “Graptiic,” and takes' oeeasion-to remark
parcels. We never had but.one sent us, ' ". .. • , . -4, ,
and that was a volume of the President’s -j“ follows ' Wo P nnt hu kmdlywords
message with accompanying documents. ! with real pleasure, and in the earnest
“ In the meantime'the unhappy Husband ! belief that they., are well .deserved. He
tuade a.'short, excursion! into the neigh-' gay8; 1 ! ! . j
borhood. He hurried through tho hacks i ■ '(j. i' "•> . i
on the hack-stands and had all there- |, ^
tired convicts who drive those vehicles: * n wne ^'r s ^ e , l . 3 , f u P enn J
volunteerto go and search for the lost tendmgthe education of her children ^d
child for two and a half an hour. Each ' devoting herself to literary pursuits. We
one was ready to make affidavit that he ' bave seen m the New York press a num-
knew the ha^ and one Irishman, who ^7%
drove by. From the backhand thehus- • ^^^* ^ ^diariy a^apt^ to
band hurried to JTewspaper and 1 her ta i ent ?_ an d ^qmrements/ and tho
ton^^ philosophicklly remarked that the * Westmoreland has encountered more
loss of a baby was somebody’s gain, and i *£ an tU ® ordinary obstacles threwn m
Preston added that it was a loss easily j e ' . fiterary. debutantes _by
repaired; and so the night wore on. beiD g 3 ‘ . t, he
What became of th£t hack, with the I Indeed,; thsy hara'pnratie* h«r with aa
precious little burden, is the most inter- ! uar ’^? u ? 1 ferocity, makin 0 no allow
ing part of ttie mrrative. It seems ! elther Tln fo ^ her ’ 8 . e , s V
that oiS old friend Zach. Chandler, the j £
great' Miohigander, ■ who goes mooning J.
about at all sorts of late hours, fount ’ ^f b v w ^ S® ww
himself on Four and a half street in such | “J® wa ^ ^och less run in the hi 0 her
-i;.. sT~ and successful career she had chosen,
a state of absent mmdednass that he- ghe certainly deserves the praise of pluck
couldn’t tell where he w* ■ ->r where he
ought to be. In taese emergencies he
instinctively calls a hapk. .All the hack-
men in town know the great Michigan-
der, and, entirely regardless of what he
•ordera pr says, ifhey invariably drive him
hdftie; stopping 1 avail the sample rooms
and bars on the way. On this occasion he
halted a hack, and getting in, said as he
didsQS;. |,. t , ,j.i . ■
“ Takeme’omedamnyou.'
Sitting down upon the back seat, he
was startled by a wild cry that almost
sobered him. ' This will sound like ex
aggeration, but ifs a fact. It came very
near being a,case, of. spoild child, for old
ZtLbh. had hinged two hundred pounds of
senatorial beef and whisky on the lo3t
child of the lower honse. He started up
witfi euch viofence tnat his head struck
the top’of the hack, nearly bouncing the
driver off bis seat, more, however, with
astonishment than jolt. • q • ‘
' Old .Zach.-resolved himself into an in
vestigating committee, and sitting down
on. the .front seat, felt round. He gath
ered up the ‘child, J and for a 'minuto:sat
turning the situation over in his gigantic
intellect, then sticking his hehd out the
window, he shouted with that voice whieh
lasm^de the British lion tremble: . -., J
“Drivergo’omcquick -I’ye-got-a-baiiy.’
' As the mfant'cohtinhed'rts screaming,
the driver had' no doubt as to! the tiuth
of.'.this Startling' revelation, and so. he
tore along the street, at a fearful rate,
considering that his team consisted of
one vicious kicker and one runaway.
PiiDi-ng-np af* a palatial mansion, the
grwzt Michigander tnmblei out and rush-
ed in .-with the, child in!bii arms. Pre
senting, it.to,the astonished Mrs. Chand-
feiiiuJCT
“Moststrornary fair—sot-down-baby-
tinJhftbk. ' Gomcr-to-depot-him.” rot ■
ui The good lady did itotgeoeive .the 'mew*!
.fiojnar, .jfjtiA! tl;q t samq en.thn^iaam,,but
ce 8 sent,for a policeman, not to arrest the
Sedatoii'bht th remove the encumbrance.
•Through this means the poor little'waif
was returned to its frantic parents, .o.r *
,We areihappy to saythat both.GUsind-
er.and baby are as well as could be ex-
Tfee Cost «f Collecting Internal Ret-
III JaAl ,' irr vluo i
During the year 1873 the following
amounts .jwere -oqllfie^l; by the intpjc^al
,revenue officiida ip., ; the ; ;fonr.; districts in-
?i awrt-)d alitls fe vl ; .*?ilB
ig Hack into Sedgloptiujy urged.
that again, or her officious- ^ ^ of ^ $21,916 21
In’ ttiti flr^y $19^433 fed Li the seashi V
$21,765 27 in this thirii and $20,935 12
‘ of in the fourth-being 24 per cent, of the
amount jn r thq,first,-301-S' per 'cent-nn
the second. 19 per, cent, in the third, and
9J per centtdn the fourth.. /. ! Wr il:
; j Whieh shovfe that this business of col
lecting federal revenue is, a most refresh
ingly tat one for somebody. A •
The first marriage within a period of has "postponed on account of ttie weatti;
fifteen years recently took place at He- ' er,” their'drawing until-the 29th , insfiint'
bron New Hampshire. Itis said to have They have got their sewing maohines
excited much interest among the inhabi- and bogus jewelry all ready, and Henry 1 .
- Gr*d* is now wearing two pair of brass tion, and the tears came into her eyes.
vjk-.oii <t m:w d-.i-iO .’4 .W* •‘i’- I * tuta-ov I .’b -jui* m ,nnvil 1 ^a .^titovbi ai olsteitn a i
the toilet the aching void he woitild parry
with him through .'the streets of the me
tropolis. Then she thought of the vexa-
. ’ J -w-ws —-
Ziba Dae|Linoton. of Chester county,
Pennsylvania^ recently discovered a tor
toise marked “Z. D., 1820,” which he re
cognized as the work cf his hand fifty-
three years ago.
in standing up against an opposition be
fore which most women would have
quailed and shrank from the public eye.
But'she is a Georgia women and comes
of a stock that asserts its own and grows
stronger and brighter under the spur of
adversity. She seems now to Have taken
her place among the intellectual women
of the North, and we think she has the
mettle in her to maintain it.
How They Game Out ol ttie
Crash.
It has been reported that Wall street
leaders were pretty much all seriously
crippled by the panic, but this report is
n-w denied. A New Ynrk paper states
that Commodore Vanderbilt, from whose
estate the newspapers have subtracted
from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 by the
crash, lias/on the contrary, kept all he
had of hfe $50,000,000, and bought stocks
at so low- a rate when they were down,
that ho will by June be worth (60,000,000.
He expects to increase his pile to a round
hundred millions in five years. . Daniel
Drew has been set down a? a bankrupt
by the'panic, but he has not Josi; money
•enough.to- hupt him.- Ho .has. a way of
protesting that he is rained when he
wants to make settlements, or be let off
easily. His fortune ha3, perhaps,
rienced a shrinkage of half a millio
tie is held to. be worth at least eight mil
lions yet. Jay Gould, another ofthe re
puted “lame ducks,” is only playing a
shrewd game, it is asserted; b£ ostensibly
retiring from A' tiie street” in order to
avoid, fegat responsibility in his uncom
fortaWa complications with non-paying
New Jersey Southern and other railway
interests. He is believed, however, to be
good ; to-day ■ for" ten million#. • Hennr
N;' Smith, the new operator in d'ali
street, ... whq.. undertook to beard the
old veterans in their ,<Jep, r has been
a sufferer to the extent of some
$2,000,000 through Gould’s ’ superior tac
tics, but'he has $2,000,000 to $31000,000
withjwhioh to start. out. again on anew
fight, with the aid of somp hardly-earned
experience to give Him discretion/ Alden
B. Stock Well,' another youfig aspirant for
thei leadership of j Wall street, is one of
the crippled ones, .of u the Exchange, hut
he was maimed, before tho' panic, by his
operations : ih Pacific Mail, in which little
bout ; he'lost some $4,000,000 in three
months, an'd, retired to. a back seat with a
small nest-egg of $500,000 to commence
operations again in. more...propitions
times.’' Rufus Hatch, another .'of the-
Heavy operatora of Wall" street, was hurt
to the extent of $2,000;000 by the pained
but saved about t--.e same amount.
Olaflin. & Co., the diy. gipo^c • merchants,
weathered the storm by getting an ex
tension from their-creditors, and selling
‘-^"Tly for cash at reduced .prices. 'It m
:ed that those apparently crushed by
the panic have shown remarkable recu
perative powers, dud never has so great a
trash been so speedily recovered from.
L'lie National Trust, Union Trust, Ken
yon, Cox £ Co., George B. GrinneJiA Co.,'
Pi'ik £ Hatch, and others, are once more
launched on air active business career.
bound all their prisoners, pinioning their
arms behind them, and tying them firmly
to the backs of chairs. Most of the rob
bers, while two or three kept watch out
side, then began to ransack the house,
breaking open the bureau drawers and
taking ont all the valuables which' could
be easily carried away. They then-began
to work on an iron safe in a front .room,
which contained a large quantity of solid
silver plate. . They tried to force it open
with tools which they had brought with
them, and failing in this, proceeded to
hlow it open with gunpowder, having
covered it with clotlm to deaden the noise.
They succeeded in opening' and rifling
the safe after three hours’ work, .packed
up-the silver and other-valuables, and
left the house at about midnight, having
cautioned the servants .with many threats
to remain quiet as they were. At.' about
6 o’clock this morning, Armstrong suc
ceeded in freeing himself from the bends
wbich attached him to hfe chair, and went
to the stable, where be roused the groom
and coachman. They were ignorant ot
all that had occurred, although the for
mer had passed the house at about half
past .9 o’clock last evening.. Armstrong’s
handcuffs were then filed off, the other
servants released, and word was sent to
the police. There fe-ho clew to the rob
bers. -< f«i.' * < . ot b c da
What the Darrell Investigating Com*
mittee are Finding Ont.^
I A special to the Herald- of Saturday,
dated New Orleans, January 2d, com
municates the following gratifying infor
mation : *
The Durrell Investigating Committen
has been in almost constant session for
two days at room 5, Sc. Charles Hotel.
It is pushing on in the investigation with
great rapidity and seeming impartiality,
in • the presence' of counsel. William
Randolph representing Darrell, and Johft
M. Bonner .the people. The evident*
elicited so far is very damaging to Judg*
Durrell, and the investigation will be pro
longed for several days. So far several
witnesses have been examined, who hare
been through the bankrupt mill,.among,
them Johu F. Wych, an old merchant of
the city, who made a very damaging
statement. E. C. Hillings, and Dis
trict Attorney Beckwith were exam
ined with, regard to the’: issuing of
the famous, interlocutory order seis
ing the State House. . Both testified thaft
Judge Durrell issued it. entirely of hit
of half a million, but ! own voLtaon and without consultation.
- - Judge .Walker and Charles Caregnm
were examined with regard to the per
sona! habits of Durrell. Tho former tes
tified to having seen him intoxicated
npon various occasions, and to his arro-
gand, overbearing conduct upon the
bench. The latter had seen him fre
quently intoxicated upon the bench, am]
on one occasion has seen him taken along
the streets by hfe friends in a maudlin
condition.' ’ i' x*
Judge John A. Campbell testified di
rectly to having seen him often intoxi
cated upon the bench ; he had once been
grossly insulted by Durrell calling him
“a hoary-headed old reborthe next day
he apologized, excusing himself upon thn
ground that he did not know what he wan
doing at the time. ^
Beckwith also testified to DurrelPa
irregularities in conducting the business
of hfe court and in issuing unwarranted
orders, and also to hfe discourteous m**-
ner towards the members of the bar.
Evidence is being plentifully volun
teered. but from its overwhelming char
acter it is supposed the committee will
close it3 session fully satisfied without
exhausting'it;
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The Paris papers announce the death,
of a woman once known as Reine Pomare.
She was called so on account of her mag
nificent head of hair and her creole com
plexion. She was one of the greatest
dancers at Mabille, and was generally
dressed in black and blue, with her wrista
and neck covered with jewelry. Sho
looked like an Indian queen. A book
was once written about her, called “A
Journey round Pomare. Queen of Mabille.
Princess of Ranelagh. Grand Duohess of
the Chaumiere. By the **race of Cancan
and o-her Cachuchas.” The volume was
illustrated by a portrait of Pomare, hec
The Londou Times estimates that 74,- ^tograph, real and garter.: ■
>"0,000 bushels of wheat will be required ! The pictures and seketohes of fhe late
froih this country to supply the markets Sir Edwin Landseer are to be sold in ton
if Europe until the crop of 1874: is har- , spring They are expected to fenlisn
.elCMti
»th unvested., .
; from $250,000 to $400,000.