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GEORGIA. TELEGRAPH BUILDING-
ESTAUSHED 18?G.
MACON; TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1875.
Volume LXVUI—N0.2&
From t
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Columbia’s Crisis.
I1V B. W. PATXKBSOS.
I
■ r> - u the drew! Scvllacf rebellion is passed
' ration's CbsryiWfe 3** r0#r *' , .
. ;; 113 njeWiase l by dissension svile blast,
''v ‘ vanish prosperity’s shores.
,a ‘ it
. ; „ r ,.i party, Coriolnnus like,
shame on th-ir country avenge,
nuvri'! vain thy Vfturisn tears
To st-.v 'll! rod hand of revenge.
hi
- ns I and maligned is our beautiful land,
frowned is a sovereign State
, ,• of our sires, by oppression s command,
o' .-, ,; r ,ced in future shall mate.
” l IV
M ;„„ () j j a »iicc f i> *lluted and torn#
1 1* trunple 1 ’neath tyranny’s heel,
,, w in C hauls to the scaffold is borne
An 4;r; publican weal.
v
; ryyt of bondage God pointed the way
Jllr „ the Bed Sea of blood to our sires,
Has' -j »t of brass may save us to-day
j; c01 [ r ,to freedom aspires.
VI
Tint talisman is Constitutional right,
Mar Billions in anguish yet cast
Their e.v« or. that omen which gleams through
the rigid.
Vtvpeot redemption at last.
jliHals’s “ Huguenots.”
r. I! ij.'Ko one of Mendelssohn's "Leidar
* 4 ' Oh nc JForte.”]
r. ur fav'rite picture rises up before mo,
\yT von plav that tune.
I • wo Iienrcs standing in a garden,
lu tlie still August noon.
f,a girl’s, with pleading face turned up-
■rr.rls,
Wild with great alarm: .... , .
Trembling with haste, she binds her broidered
kerchief
About the other’s nrm,
tviinso gore is licnt on her in tender pity.
Whose eyes look into hers , ...
Willi« deep meaning, though slie cannot read it.
Hers are so dim with tears.
Whit r.r ■ they saving in the sunny garden,
With muuiier flowers nblow?
What gives the woman's voice its psssior.ato
pbeidingf
Wiiat makes the man’s so low ?
■ Sec. love!” she murmurs; “you shall wear my
Kerchief,
It is the badge, I know.
And it will hear you safely through the conflict,
If -if. indeed, you go!
You will not wear it? Will not wear my ker-
rhief?
Xriv! do not tell me why.
; will tint listen! If you go without it,
You will go hence to die.
• nush 1 lionet answer! It is death, I tell you t
li,.l, ..I, I s;>cak the truth.
You. spm lini there so warm with life and vigor’
So bright with health andyouth;
You would go lienee, out of the glowing suns
shine.
Oi l ni the garden’s bloom.
Out of the living, thinking, feeling present,
Intotliounknown gloom!”
Then lie makes answer, “ Bush! oh, hush my
darling 1
Life is so sweet to me.
go full (fie •!>•!. yen i.ecd not bid mo guard it.
If such a thing might bel
"If simh a tiling might be!—but not through
falsehood,
I conM not come to you;
! dai- not stand here in your pure, sweet pres
ence.
Knowing myself untrue.”
i is n.i sir, J” the wild Veka interrupt? him!
*• This is no open strife.
II iv* joii not often dreamt a nobler warfare,
I n wh i eh 1 o spend your life ?
•• Oh 11 .r my sake—though hut for my sake, wear
it!
Think what my life would be
if you, who give it first true worth and meaning.
Were taken now from me.
• Think of the long, long days, so slowly passing!
Think of the endless years f
am so young ? Must I live out my lifetime
With neither hopes nor fears P”
lie speaks again, in mournful tones and tender.
Hut with unswerving faith—
" Should not love make ns braver, aye, and
stronger.
Hither for life or death ?
‘ And life is hardest! Oh. my love! my treasure!
If I could bear your part
Of Ibis great sorrow, I would go to meet it
With an unshrinking heart.
Child! child! I little dreamt iu that bright
summer.
When first your love I sought,
Of nil the future store of woe and anguish
Which 1. unknowing wrought.
Rut you’ll forgive me? Tes, you will forgive
me,
l know, when I am dead 1
1 would have loved you—but words have scant
meaning;
God loved you more instead 1”
Then there is a silence in the sunny garden,
Until, with faltering tone, . ...
»J9 sobs, the while still cimging closer to him,
" Forgive me—go—my own 1”
V: human love, and death by faith unshaken.
Mingle their glorious psalm,
M eit low. until she passionate pleading
k hushed m deepest calm. [Spectator.
Hattie of Beauty Among tho Belle?.
ibris Letter.]
The opera continues thronged. Wo
men of every circle would like to have it
liie fashionable salon, but they do not
dare to venture into the foyer, which is
file only room that is really habitable.
It is a pity; for they would ho better
judged there in their grace, their atti
tude, their freedom of movement. A
woman seated shows only half her beau-
*f» whatever bo the charm of her face.
* or this reason tho amateurs of art who
siy that women are worth more than
'tatues never fail to be on the grand
staircase when the ladies descend. Tho
'ay before yesterday tho great success
belonged to six young Americans who oc
cupied the cnlrc-colonne, opposite the no
torious Madame Musard, herself an
vmericin constellated with diamonds.
, “ ere was never seen in one hoi such a
Goquet of young girls, so pretty in the
Aureole of their twenty years. There
blondes and brunes, laughing and
? ntal » c °T»etish and ingenuous, all
i . 5 American eyes which outvie
3v 3t T recJoas stones. It was a bat-
were twl.*.' ,® no would have said they
tad vaunn-'v *S fy tlle womea Stance,
e. iu iSu* t,Jem on their own chosen
taildln<v danger that the new
' had £ r^ d > V8 fro* like the old. If
''”svj«i lii d ^ ave beca rebuilt twice
-.e with half the money.
Hmt lonlgYiiie Book-Flndlng Said
to he a Swindling Scheme.
*''. to the Chicago Post and Mail.]
.f’f /February 2.—The whole
the extraordinary reward of
v \ a Sold for the recovery of a cer-
,'i 1 ? ®°° k to be in the United States,
u to contain full exposures of scan-
r£2? Practices on the part of some
tubers of the English royal family, is
tat last. The whole business throu<»h-
•'•t u simply an advertising dodge of a
speculative firm of book-sellers in Nas-
■ an street, in this city. They have ob-
• w ed Possession of a copy of a work
• ; atwas suppressed during the reign of
■sorgo the Fourth, and which contains
’.cme racy accounts of royal scandals.
^6 Ox l.)lA VMl**4 fl1 «^A -.1.wm —— H
ue issued a semi-official offer of a
^vgo reward for tho recovery of tho only
' Py said to ba in existence. This wa3
yio^fii^ 1 5 overybody knows what an un
paralleled succeis hai accompanied it.
LOUISIANA.
Grant and Kellogg’s Legislature—
Who nake the Laws of Louisiana—
A Radical Report of the Situation-
View of the Negro Pen and Scenes
Therein.
Special Correspondence N. Y. Times.]
New Orleans, January 29.—Since the
war and tho reconstruction acts which
followed it, tho people of the Southern
States hive complained that by the votes
of misguided negroes corrupt and ignor
ant men were elected to office in their
different commonwealths. They have
been particularly loud in their denuncio-
tion of the class of men returned to their
Legislatures, and a visit to tho State-
house at Columbia, S. C., or Jackson,
Miss., demonstrates very clearly that
they do not complain without good cause.
Many of the Senators and Representa
tives in those States are unable to read,
and some of them have never learned to
sign their own names. A majority of
the members of the Legislature now in
session in New Orleans are even more ig
norant than the men who call themselves
representatives of the people in the two
States mentioned. This is particularly
true of the lower house. It is no exag
geration to state that half the members
of that body are unable to read print.
Nearly all of them are negroes who a
few years ago were laborers on the rice
and sugar plantations. T-e few white
men in the General Assembly are not
much better qualified for their positions
than are their black associates, Yester
day I visited the State-house. It is sit
uated in the French portion of the city,
and was once a fashionable hotel. It is
a low, ambling, tumble down structure,
entirely unfitted for the uses to which it
is put. Incidentally it may be stated
tbat it cost the people of Louisiana sev
eral hundred thousand dollars. The ex
act amount bits never been reported.
Since the events of the 4th instant, and
up to Monday last, every entrance to the
building was strongly barricaded and
guarded by United States soldiers. Now
the barricades have been taken down
from two of the doors and the soldiers
replaced by a strong guard of State po
licemen. I had some little difficulty in
passing through the crowd that docked
up the principal of these entrances, and
after having done so, found myself in
the midst of a mass pushing, wrangling
negroes; they were of all ages and colors,
many of them being field-bands who had
come to town, as they stated, ** to see
dat Legislature show.” A country ne
gro never comes into tho city without
bringing eometbing to eat and drink
with him. The men who occupied tho
lobby of the Louisiana Legislature were
no exception to the general rule. They
were all well supplied with bacon and
corn-bread, and a few had brought well-
filled whisky-bottles with them. The
dirty floor of the hall was strewn with
the ends of half-smoked cigar3, mouldy
bits of meat, and a bone or two. All
light and air were excluded by the huge
plank barricading tho windows. One
sickly gas jet was burning, but only
tended to heighten the gloom. This
did not seem to dampen, at least,
the spirits of the crowd, however. They
laughed and joked with that loud merri
ment which is peculiar to them, and
seemed to be the happiest people in tho
world. Frequent allusion was made to
General Sheridan, one very black man,
who was evidently a person of importance,
declaring to a group of admiring listen
ers that “since the ’rival of dat gemman
all fear for tho cullud race not havin’ of
der right3 was at an end.” With great
difficulty I forced my way through this
wrangling, shouting assembly, and reach
ing the stairway ascended to the ante
room of the Representatives’ chamber.
Like the hall below, this was filled by
negroes. They were evidently of tho
better class, however, many of them being
officeholders and professional politicians.
Here and there a white Republican was
to be seen excitedly explaining some po
litical measure to a number of negroes,
who listened with great attention but ev
ident perplexity. The door of the As
sembly chamber was carefully guarded
by four negro officials. Approaching
them I asked politely if I might pass
into the hall. “No, sab,” answered one
of the men in on exceedingly impertin
ent way. “The chamber is already full,
and spectators don’t do nuffinbut disturb
the proceedings.” At this moment the
State Auditor approached the door, and
at his request the doorkeeper allowed me
to pass.
THE LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE.
The Assembly chamber is a long, nar
row, uncarpeted, foul-smelling room.
Near the door a small space is set apart
for visitors, and above this is a low gal
lery, which one of tho attendants in
formed me was “the ladies’ balcony.”
At the lower end of the apartBfent tho
Speaker’s desk is raised almostto theceil-
•ing, and around thisare clustered scats for
innumerable negro clerks, messengers,
and other attendants. Entering tho
room, I found tho members engaged in
a loud and exciting debate. The space
set apart for spectators wa3 filled with
negroes, who gazed with open-mouthed
wonder upon tho proceedings of those
within the circle, and it wa3 only after
ten minutes’ diligent pushing that I suc
ceeded in securing a position from which
it was p033ibla to see 03 well as hear. It
is almost impossible to describe the scene
which was then presented to me. Six or
seven black men were on the floor shout
ing like maniacs; a number of others
were in their scats, crying, “ Order, dar,”
and “ Missa Speaker," at*the top of their
voices. In the chair a young white man
was seated. He presented a very re
markable appearance. His clothes wero
much too small for him, and had cracked
in two or three places. Through these
holes a soiled shirt appeared, and in tho
bosom of this garment a valuable dia
mond pin was placed. Tho young man
wore a very dirty shirt-collar and a flam
ing red neck-tie. This was the Speaker
pro tern. of tho Louisiana Legislature.
Above tho din created by tho members
on the floor of the House could be beard
a squeaky voice, issuing from this young
man, and commanding “ order.”
Tho confusion and noise were increased
by the gavel, with which he rapped loud
ly and continually. Hi3 commands were
of no avail, however—tho representatives
of the people would not be silenced. At
first it was, of course, impossible to_dis
cover what question was being so excited
ly discussed; but after a time I became
aware that the debate was upon the adop
tion of a report of tho Committee on Elec
tions giving seats to two Republicans who
claimed to have beon returned by tbe
Board of Canvassers. On this & white
leader of tho House had moved the pre
vious question, and a number of negroes,
who stated that they wore sure the claim
ants had not been elected, rose and re
fused to vote unless debate was allowed.
When it is remembered that on account
of tho withdrawal of the Conservatives
there aro only fifty-six members, or
just a quorum in tho House, it
will be seen that no business could bo
touched if one member refused to vote.
Knowing this, and evidently wishing to
havo tho report of the committee adopt
ed at once, the white leader referred to
moved that those who refused to vote be
called before the bar of the House for
•-'-All »'»'• is I
contempt. Upon this the wildest disor
der ensued. Twenty men started to their
feet and commenced speaking at the
samo moment. Above the general con
fusion could be heard shouts of “You lie,
you nigger, you.” “Dat’s not parlia
mentary, sah.” “Yon’s a wiolatin’ of the
Constitution, sah.” The last remark was
made by a young and handsome mulatto.
He had no sooner uttered it than a very
black man turnod upon him and exclaim
ed with an air of the utmost contempt,
“What you knows about tho Constitu-
. tion, you yellow moke,you ? You pusson
of unsure parentage, you shut your fool
mouf." This caused a load laugh among
the negro spectators, and wa3 greeted
with such exclamations as “Golly, but
dat nig is some;” “He’s the man for
talkin’;” “You bet,” and “Tobe sure,
honey.”
A SPECIMEN OF NEGRO ORATORY.
After this scene had continued for
nearly half an hour, Mr. Hahn, Speaker
of the House, ascended the platform and
motioned tho young man with the red
neck-tie to find some other seat. He then
took the chair, and by dint of hard shout
ing succeeded in restoring some degree of
order. Then he stated that the question
was upon a motion to call four members
before the bar of tbe House for contempt
in having refused to vote upon a report
of the Committee on Elections, and for
thus breaking the quorum of tbe House.
Upon thi3, Demas, Representative from
St. John’s parish, jumped to his feet and
was recognized by tbe Chair. He is one
of tho blackest negroes in tho State, and
has great influence with his own people.
For this reason, or because his colleagues
were too tired to create further distur
bances, he was listened to with some at
tention. For a moment after he had been
accorded the floor he stood without speak
ing a word, gazing upon his associates
with an assumption of dignity that* was
truly laughable. He is a short, stout man
with a very large head, thick lips, and
glaring eyes. As I have already stated,
he is very black. His immense head was
closely shaved, and his face smooth. He
was dressed with a degree of taste not to
be looked for in such an assemblage. His
coat and pantaloons wero of fine black
broadcloth. He wore a well-washed white
vest, spotless linen, and a broad, black
cravat. His monster hands were covered
with a pair of new lavender-colored kid
gloves. With that keen appreciation of
dramatic situations which is one of the
leading characteristics of the negroes of
the Southern States be continued to stand
in his place, making no motion, and not
opening M3 mouth. One of his hands
rested upon the back of his chair, and
the other he had thrust into the bosom of
his vest. Many of tho block spectators
looked upon him with evident admiration,
and as he stood the confusion on the floor
of tho House ceased entirely. Thon he
spoke substantially os follows : “Missa
Speaker and other gemmen of di3 here
House - You have just heard a motion
made to call four lawful representatives
of the people befo’ the bar to answer for
contempt dat they would not vote for a
measure which thoy knowed was wrong.
One of dem members was me, Demas, who
represent in dis Legislature the people,
■white and black, of tbe good Parish of
St. John tho Baptist. Dis gemman i3 &-
goin’ to do, wid no reference to previous
odor, racj, or condition, ns we is told to
do by the Constiution and the laws.”
Here the speaker was interrupted by loud
applause from the negroes and laughter
from the white men present. Continu
ing, ho said: "An attempt havo been
made here to-day to stop debatin’ and
i interfer’ wid the rights of gemmen by
! preventin’ of free discussion. Dis I’s
■ opposed to. What does we come here
'for? What for but to talk, advise to-
i gather, and discussion questions for tho
good of the people?” “Dat’s so, sure
j ’nough,” cried several of the members,
I and Demas continued: “Dat bein’ so,I’s
1 gowin to have my right of debate, and
ain’t gowin to vote on no question whar
: the discussion is stopped. ’Sides that,
! I’s told dat the gemmen as is a-claimin’
i of seats here war not legal elected; and
1 quorum or no quorum, Republican party
j or no party, I ain’t gowin to go agin the
, Returnin’ Boar J. Dat board declared I
! war legal elected, and I’s gowin to stick
to them. I feel dat way, gemmen, an I
ain’t gowin to do no different; so now
caU mo ’fore the bar of the House, or do
what you like, but I won’t vote on dis
here question, so sure as my name am
Demas, from the parish of St. John the
Baptist."
At the close of this speech Mr. Demas
sat down amid loud applause and some
laughter. He had no sooner resigned tho
floor than nearly every member in the
House jumped to hi3 feet and demanded
recognition. A wild scene of confusion
again ensued. Twenty different motions
•were put, and none of them actod upon.
The expressions "liar” and "nigger” were
frequently used, and at one moment it
seemed as if the meeting would break up
in a fight. Frequent calls were made
for the Sergeant-at-Arms, but that officer
was nowhero to bo found. At length
comparative quiet was restored, and
Speaker Hahn, who knows less of parlia
mentary law than many New England
school-boys, having decided that a mo
tion to tako a recess to a certain time
•was not debatable, the floor was given to
Yorko, a white man, who tendered his
resignation to Governor Kellogg through
the Speaker. In doing eo he said that
he did not wi3h to be a momhor of any
body which conld not maintain its own
dignity and who30 presiding officer wa3
unable to preserve order. Ho then hand
ed the Speaker his written resignation,
and attempted to pass out of the hall.
"Withbut his presence the quorum would
be broken, and the Speaker ordered the
Sergeant-at-Arm3 not to allow him to
pas3. Ho was prevented from leaving
the chamber. He bad no sooner returned
to his seat, however, than he was accused
on all sides of having sold out to the
Democrats, who are, of courso, most
anxious to break the quorum of the so-
called Kellogg Legislature. These accu
sations were follo wed by great noise and
confusion, and three other members of
tho House tendered their resignations to
tho Speaker. He paid no attention to
them, however. At this juncture Hahn
was seen to whisper to ono of tho mes
sengers, who at once passed out of the
chamber and pushed his way through the
crowd in the direction of tho Governor’s
offico. Ho soon returned, followed by
Governor Kellogg, who came bareheaded
and greatly excited. Proceeding to the
Speaker’s desk the Governor was inform
ed of what had transpired, and of the
threatened resignation of members. He
I then returned to the floor of tho House,
; and taking Dema3, Yorke, and the others
; into a corner, tried to convince them that
! thoy were hurting themselves and the
. party by their action. In this way, and
i by promises and threats, ho succeeded in
I winning them over, and compelled the
! withdrawal of the resignations which had
i been presented. Tho negro Demas,
■ however, was not to be pacified, and
j when the Houso adjonmod ho loft the
' chamber declaring, "Contempt ..or no
contempt, I won’t never vote on no ques
tion when the right of the gemmen’s de
batin’is interfered wid.” Such scenes
a3 those I havo attempted to describe
occur very frequently in what i3 called
Kellogg’s Louisiana Legislature. j .''.',.. '.
HE DIED SAYING “CUSS.”
A Wanderer from tlie Frontier—Wbat
was Found on Ills Breast.
From tho Detroit Free Bress. J
He sat on the steps of the City Hall,
headinbta hands, and one conld not
help bnt notice him. He wore a coat of
wolf skins, a bearskin cap, buckskin
breeches, and his grizzly hair bung down
on hi3 shoulders in a tangled mas3. He
bad drifted East from the wild frontier,
and he had fallen sick. No Uno knot?
for a long time what ailed him, os he
would not reply to inquiries; but finally,
when a policeman shook his arm and re
peated the inquiry, the man slowly lifted
his head and replied:
“ I’m played!”
His face was pale and haggard, and it
was plain that he was going to have an
attack of fever. He was sent to the hos
pital for treatment, he making no inquir
ies and answering no questions. This
was a month ago. He had his personal
effects in a sort of a sack. These were a
breech-loading rifle, a hatchet, a knife,
and several other articles, and when he
had been laid on a bed in one of the
wards, he insisted that the bag be placed
under his head. They offered him medi
cine, but he turned away his face, and no
argument could induce him to swallow
any.
“But you are a sick man,” said the
doctor, as he held the medicine up.
" Cuss sickness,” replied the old man.
“And you may die!”
“Cuss death!”
He grew worse as the days went by,
and was sometimes out of his bead and
talking strange talk of Indian fights and
buffalo hunts, but not once did he speak
of family friends, or of himself. He
would not let them undress him, comb
Ms hair, or show him any attentions be
yond leaving his food on the stand. A
raging fever was burning up. his system,
and when the doctors found that the old
man would not take their medicine, they
knew that death was only a matter of
days.
He must have had an iron constitution
and a heart like a warrior, for he held
death at arm’s length until the other dag.
When it was seen tbat he could last but
a few hours longer, the nurse asked him
if a clergyman should be called.
“Cuss clergymen!” replied the old
man, those being the first words he had
spoken for three days.
However, two hours after his mind
wandered, and he sat up in bed and called
out:
“I tell yo, the Lord isn’t going to be
hard on a fellow who has fit Injuns !”
He was quiet again until an hour be
fore his death, when the nurse made one
more effort, and asked:
“ Will you give me your name ?”
“Cuss my name!” replied the old man.
“ Haven’t you any friends ?”
“ Cuss friends!”
“ Do you wish U3 to send your things
to any one ?”
" Cuss any one !”
“ Do you realize,” continued the nurse,
“ that you aro very near the grave ?”
“ Cuss the grave!” was the monoto
nous reply.
No further questions were asked, and
during the next hour the strange old man
dropped quietly asleep in death, uttering
no word and making no sign. When
they came to remove tho clothing and
prepare the body for tho grave, what do
you suppose they found, carefully wrap
ped in oilskin and lying on Ms breast ? A
daguerreotype picture of a little girl. It
was taken years and years ago, and when
the child was five or six years old. The
face of the little ono was fair to look up
on, and tho case which held it had been
scarred by bullets. There wero a dozen
scars on tho old man’s body to prove that
he had lived a wild life, but there was
not a line among his effects to reveal Ms
name, or tho name of the child whose
picture ho had worn on M3 breast for
years and years. Who was she ? His
own darling, perhaps. He would not
havo treasured the picture so carefully
unless there was love in his heart.
No one would have believed that the
wolf skin coat covered a heart wMch
could feel lovojw tenderness, but it did.
He might have been returning homo af
ter years of weary wandering, or ho might
have left the frontier to bo sure of a
Christian burial, and hoping that no un-
sympethetic oye would falj upon the pic
ture.
Some said keep it, hoping to make it
identify the old man, but others laid it
back on the battle-scarred breast which
had preserved it so long, and it was there
yesterday when they buried Mm.
Ylrid Description or an Avalanche.
From tho Salt Lako Herald.]
A miner of Little Cottonwood, who saw
tho descent of one of the recent snow
slides in that canon, thus describes it s
“There goes a snow slide!” exclaimed
my companion, as, in the midst of a hea
vy sleet, wo ascended tho canon where
wo had been assisting in exhuming tho
corpse of a victim, at the scene of a late
disaster. “Do yon not hear it P’ and a
shrill wMstling sound which attracted
my attention deepened into a low, gut-
ter&l-Uke roar, increasing in volume and
power at eTery instant, until tho artillery
of Stone River seemed bnt a whisper in
comparison.
“Where is it?” I hurriedly asked,
while the air at that distance seemed to
tremble in consonance with tho motions
of a monster still visible.
From the bed of Little Cottonwood a
smooth incline rises at an angle of twen
ty degrees from the horizontal, termin
ating in a perpetual somber wall one
thousand feet in height, wMch is again
surmounted by receding quartzite cliffs,
through which two narrow gorges cut
their way diverging in different direc
tions, and, making a scallop in the horizon,
are lost to view.
Amidst the blood-curdling uproar, tho
phenomena wore invisible till the gorges
at the summit filled the level with tho
moving snow. Rock3, as if in rage at
their inability to withstand tbo shock,
gave way from their foundations with an
audible growl. Clumps of trees, centu
ries in maturing, snapped like stubble,
their dark branches describing the undu
lations of the surface as though a strug
gle for existence was theirs until over
taken by some more powerful wave of the
avalanche. They sink gradually and dis
appear; jutting crags of quartzite shako
off" their disconnected portions, which,
tumbling down their jagged sides, bury
themselves noiselessly in the moving
masses, that having united at the con
verging point, rush toward the edge of
the abyss with increased fury. Nothing
more terrible than the successive plunges
of tho disconnected portion of the ava
lanche over the precipice can well be con
ceived. Compressed by contact with ob
stacles in its course, the van of the vol
ume has attained the solidity of ice. Re
tarded by variations of the incline, it
seems to pause on tho edge of the preci-
pico a3 though in sensitive dread of tho
terrible shock wMch awaited it. Im
pelled by tho tremendous pressure be
hind, it jnts over the golf unsupported a
distance of fifty feet, until, severed by
its own tremendous weight, it strikes the
earth with a crash only neutralized by
the uproar above it. With a duller thud
and an irregular roar for an echo each
Separate'descending body alighted on its
ranwjTRta rroawr — -
predecessor, piling higher and Mgher at
each successive descent, as though pre
paring for the grandest tableau of the
sublime spectacle. Higher and higher,
until assuming the proportions of a ma
jestic co.umn, it conceals the bluff behind
it half distant to the top.
“Willit fall ?” asked my companion, as
transfixed by the phenomena ho utters
the first words that havo escaped Mm.
“Yes. it must fall. See, it is swaying
already.” Great God, what a scene!
Colossal in its magnitude, yet symmet
rical in proportion to tK* scenery in relief;
superb to the vision, indescribable in its
destruction. A swaying motion, a grace
ful eve., y. boom unsurpassable in pow
er, tbe crag3 and cannons no mate audi
tors of the performance. In tones of
thunder they hurl back their applause.
. Paris Gossip.
Recently the police arrested a man in
the street who nad a magnificent Louis
XV. clock under his coat, and as ho was
shabbily dressed and wore hob-nailed
brogans, there was a suspicion that he
had not como honestly by an article of
such value. His tale about taking it to a
watchmaker for repairs did not go down;
the police had heard all that before.
When before the judgo, the man had no
difficulty in proving that ho was an M.
X , a millionaire, and tho owner of a large
city property. His only fault was that
he wore shabby clothes. This brings up
a story of that sensible lunatic, as they
used to call ths Due do Grammont-Cadc-
rousse a few years ago. TMs gentleman
was a wild blade, it is true, bnt yet a
good fellow in every sense of the word;
a grand seigneur, polito and kindly, but
often given to eccentricities and to acts
of the wildest extravagance. He was the
friend of M’llo Hortense Schneider, and
the Duke did a good deal to form her dur
ing her first years upon the stage.
He committed suicide at the age of 32,
One evening a party of young men were
dining the Maison d’Or, when the
Duke jfave expression to a number of
democratic theories, and his comrades ac
cused Mm of too great a fondness for the
people. After having replied according
to his conscience the Due de Grammont
said: “ Very well, gentlemen; I bet you
that, without having any reason what
ever therefor, tho police will arrest me
within as hour.”
“Without your doing anything?” asked
one. , .
“Without doing anything to justify
the arrest.”
“ Done for fifty louis 1”
As there was no time to lose Caderousse
jumped into a cab and rode to the tom
pie, and como back in the most sordid
costume it is possible to imagine. The
old, greasy can upon his head, the panta
loons in rags, the old shoes broken at the
toes, and the greasy coat gave Mm the
air of a Miserable. Ho blacked Ms face
and grimed his hands, then begged his
comrades to follow to witness the arrest.
They followed Mm to a cafe on the Boule
vard Foissomere, when tho Duke seated
himself at a table with a sidelong, sneak
ing motion, and after a moment called to
the waiter: %
“Garcon, bring me a bottle of cham
pagne l”
The waiter hesitated, looked at his
clothes, and then said:
“E. m»» a boiihomme, that costs twelve
francs. '
“Well, suppose it dees,” grumbled
Caderousse, do you tMnk I haven’t the
means of paying ?”
And as he said thi3 he drew from one
of his dirty pockets a package of bank-
bills and laid 40,000 francs down before
tho astonished waiter. The latter ran
for Ms patron, and wa3 sent at once for
tho sergeants de ville, who took the Duke
into custody upon suspicion of having
stolen money upon Ms person. The other
young men followed, and heard a curious
dialogue between tho false voyon and tho
officer, the latter saying that he was not
to be taken in by such tales, and that ho
must explain how he came by the money
before M. le Judge. There he said:
“Monsieur, I am the Due do Gram-
mont-Caderousse. I made a bet that the
police would arrest mo without having
any reason for so doing, and I have won
my bet. Here are my friends to prove
it, and it only remains for mo to thank
you.”
Tho Duke’s splendid equipage, with
outrider’s in livery, was already at the
door, and Caderousse bowed himself out
while the magistrate was still staring at
Mm in open-mouthed wonder.—Paris let
ter in New Torh Times.
Chickens at Ten Cents a Shot.
Marquette (Mich.) Journal.]
A week or so ago threo Marquette
sports went down to tho Dutch settle
ment on a deer hunt, wMch was. to last
several days. They put up with “Louis, 1
an agricultural resident of that locality
who occasionally entertains the sportive
Nimrod; and as tho allotted time for the
chase had drawn to a close withont that
degree of success they had hoped £or
([they had not in three days’ hard tramp
ing seen a solitary deer), they proposed
to Lonis as they sat by the fire in the
evening that in the morning before they
started for home he should put up some
of Ms cMckens at a distance of thirty
rods and allow them to shoot at them for
a compensation. “Yah, dat ish all right,”
said Louis, “you gif mo ten cents efery
shoot, and venyou gill Mm he ish yours.”
This arrangement completed, the sports
retired with anticipations of fun in the
morning. So after breakfast they settled
their bill, had their team brought up
and Mtched to the fence, and all arrange
ments made to start right off as soon
as they had cleaned the Dutchman out
of all his chickens at ten cents apiece.
WMle the sports were fixing up a “rest”
Louis took a fine rooster under Ms arm
and started for a stump about thirty rods
distant. After tying him securely he re
turned, and putting a board across the
rain-barrel commenced to make change.
Young Preston laid his improved Rem
ington in the notch and blazed away, bnt
tbe majestic chanticleer didn’t even turn
Ms head or wink Ms eyebrow. Evident
ly Preston hod missed. A smile of pity
for the inexperience of their comrade
beamed on the faces of the others as
Lattimer adjusted Ms piece and fired.
“Beat3 all!” he remarked after a pause,
as the rooBter gave no sign of being Mt.
Satterloe, Jr., laughed long and loud as
he threw himself upon the plank and
peered through tho globes of Ms fancy
Henry. “Watch’im now.” Bang! Tney
watched Mm; and evidently, he was
watching them, and wondering what
in thunder they were trying to
do. The next two rounds were fired
without much comment by the sports,
and his nibs nover fluttered. Then they
got some hot water, and cleaned their
guns and fired at a target. It was easy
enough to Mt the target, hut when it
came to that rooster “they wasn’t there.”
Finally Lattimer Mt upon a happy idea.
His gun was double barrelled—one rifled
and the other for shot, and as he quietly
slipped in sixteen buckshot and levelled
over the plank a smile of sardonic sweet
ness illuminated Ms features. The re
port was terrific, and the head of the
rooster dropped down beside the stump,
but he himself stood up there yet in all
the pristine majesty of former days. It
was a sight to see. Silently, and with
,M9di tog bos SB 1 -fli ot booh
out a word, those three young men en
tered their cutter and drove away. Louis
had killed the rooster the night before
and. froze Mm harder than the language
those young-men indulged in on their
way back to Marquette.
THU ENGINEERS.
Work of the Men who Send ns Along
on our Travels—Watching the Mon
sters with Iron Lungs and Steel
Arms—Where the Responsibility
Lies—Characteristics ot Firemen
and coal Passers—Interesting In
cidents.
I leaned over the half door of tho en
gine room of a steamer lately, looking in
at the puppet-like movements of the lift
ing-rods as they alternately rose and
dropped again obedient to the long toes
that operated them. First, one would
arise, and a second or so after its fellow
on the other side followed suit; then they
dropped into place again and the other
pair took up the burthen and carried it
on, and between all rose tho sharp, rasp
ing ye—au—gh ya! ye—au—ghya! of
the steam exhausting from the steamers
into tho condenser. WMle admiring the
nicety and noiselessness with which the
machine moved, a voice at my elbow
made me start with its unexpectedness
“Won’t you walk in?” inquired the
engineer. Seeing no good reason why I
should not, I walked in, and we sat down
on a leather-covered seat that ran across
tho end of tho room. In this position
the whole front of the machine wa3 di
rectly in sight, and I sat without speak
ing. I had an idea, how obtained I know
not, that engineers a3 a class were surly
fellows, and tbat tbo way to curry favor
with them was to be sententious and
rathor surly yourself. “ Like like3 like, 1
I argued; quite erroneously, however, as
events proved. I didn’t wish to abuse
tho hospitality of my host by being too
talkative on short acquaintance, so I sat
still. * ;
“ You’re a newspaper man, are you not,
sir ?’’ said the engineer.
“Very slightly,” I replied. •
“I thought so. I saw you once on a
new steamer I was taking out, and knew
you as soon as I saw you leaning over the
door. We like newspaper men.”
“How so?” I asked. “For-what rea
son?” ,
- "Wall, they’re always kind o’ civil to
the trade in the paper, and generally do
tho square thing by us in reports, so we
try to return it when we get a chance;
only sometimes they make awful mistakes
in reporting.”
A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE.
“Not long ago a young man asked me
for some particulars about Che machine,
and when I saw them in the paper the
next day, with my name a3 fumistung
the information, you better believo I was
mad. I nover heard the last of it from
the boys. *How about that cylinder, Bob,
that’s thirty-six feet long and twenty-six
feet diameter ?’ That’s the way I used
to get it for tolling the young man inches
where he made it feet. Slight difference,
you better believe. You wouldn’t do
such a thing as that, sir! You know
something about an engine yourself,
don’t you?”
“W[ell, I walked by a foundry once
whero they are built,” I replied; “but
tall me something about your life, and
your OL-eupaiiou; not very hard, is it?”
“I have seen worse places than tMs en
gine-room on a cold night like this. I
suppose when you once let on the steam
you ore at liberty then for the time, and
can read or smoko juat.as yon like, and
when you get to port you can go ashore
and do what you like until the boat is
ready to go out again.” Boom, boom!
went the heavy gong overhead, and at
the first grating of the wire which
moved it, before the hammer struck tho
bell, tho engineer jumped from Ms scat,
grasped a handle sticking out of the
rock.shaft, pushed it np a little, and the
motion of tho engino at once slowed
down; the long, sharp roar of the exhaust
was subdued to an asthmatic sigh, and
the speod of the boat sensibly decreased.
Bang! went the gong, again, another
man came down an iron ladder la the
engine-room and stood by, while the en
gineer pnshed the handle clear up again,
took np the long bar that always stands
in front of tho machine, pat it in the lit
tle shaft at the engine front, moved it up
and down once, and the engine stood
still. Then he looked np at the steam
guage, and at another which said
“vacuum gange” on it, and waited. In
a moment the gong sonnded again, the
engineer opened the handle, lifted the
bar, and the wheel began to turn; every
time he moved the bar he watched the
hook over the rook-shaft arm, and when
it got in a certain position with relation
to the pin in the arm he changed the
motion of the bar np or down, and so the
wheels moved withont stopping. In
another moment a harsh, jangling bell,
like an old-fasMoned door-bell, struck;
the hooks fell with a clang on the arm
before mentioned, and tho machine be
came self-acting again, with all it3 tre
mendous respiratory organs in full vigor.
HEAVY RESPONSIBILITY.
“There,” he said, after glancing at the
vacuum gange a moment, “that’s the
best answer I can give you to one of your
questions. You see we don’t sit down all
the while; not much. Sometimes these
coasters are so thick in the channel that
we have to slow down and- stop pretty
often; that’s no great thing, it’s the
least of our duties; there’s always some
thing going on that keeps a man wide
awake, or onght to. Did yon ever think
that the real responsibility for the safety
of the ship and passengers rests right
here with us? Well, it’s so. The cap
tain is all right, to be sure, and when it’s
a clear night, and he is once well out of
the narrow channel, he don’t worry a
mite; but right in here.and down below,
we have a magazine of forco that is all
the time under iron bonds to behave it
self; trying hard to get out; a Mg Sam
son that would pull down the house if
yon didn't keep Mm in good trim. We
aro never sure, absolutely sure, tbat ev
ery thing is all right; how can we be? Wo
can’t look inside of a beam strap—what
yon call the walking-beam—and see
if it is all sound. We know well
enough when she is packed right, or takes
steam right through her valves, to top
and bottom, and how far the steam fol
lows the piston; bnt these are all matters
ot economy, not safety. We keep a close
lookout for all flaws and cracks in the
shaft or parts that ore under heavy
strain, and we look out for all the frsten-
ings to see if none of them work loose,
bnt for all that accidents will happen.
Only the other night I was np on deck
looking around, and what should I see
but one of the keys just ready to drop
out of the starboard front link on tbe
beam end. The links are those two rods
that take hold of the beam and connect
with the piston through the crosshead.
If I hadn’t a’seen it, I might have had
trouble, for all the strain would havo
come on one side of the crosshead and
broke it off; and that just means all the
way from f10,000 damage up, with an
engine of this size. I got a copper ham
mer, and every time she came down I Mt
her a clip, and get it back again all light
without stopping her. Sometimes the
hearings get hot and bother ns, particu
larly it the boat works a good deal and
itaM^w eaia Jan* ctetea*
throws us out of line; then we are apt to
heat more than at other times.”
ATTENTION TO BUSINESS.
“Smoking and reading newspapers!
Not much, I guess, od watch. I wouldn’t
read a newspaper on duty no more than
I would go to sleep; nor smoke,neither;
it don’t look just right to see a man with
a cigar stuck in his mouth on duty.
Drink! not aboard ship ; what I do out
side is nobody’s business but my own,
so long as I don’t interfere with nobody;
but on duty, no, sir!”
Then there’s the boiler; that takes a
heap of watching all the time. We have
steam enough ordinarily, might say,
when wo don’t want it; but there is
times when we can’t get it to save our
souls; no more than enough to get along
with. She fires hard. I never saw a
boat yet that had too much boiler; nor
no other man. You tell the owners'that
or the makers of the engines, and they
will say, “Oh, big boilers take up too
much roomand then they go, and put
in a little kettle withont enough fire
surface in it, and bum coal enough in a
year to pay for a decent boiler. The
best made boilers in the world will bear
a heap of watching. You know tho en-
gino pumps water into them all the
while to keep up the supply. Well, the
pumps will work all right for months at
a time; first thing you know, sometimes
when you are in trouble about other
things, the pumps will stop working, and
you can’t get a drop of water in
her to save yon; then you have
got to look sharp. What makes
it act so? Wbat makes anything
go wrong in this world? that’s what I
want to know; when it’s once set right it
ought to go right, but it don’t. Some
times the check valves get held np, and
the water don’t go; into the boiler at all,
but just surges back and forth from the
pump pressure and boiler pressure alter
nately; sometimes dirt get3 under them,
chips and things; then again joints will
blow out in the handhole plates, and
make a heap of trouble. No matter how
trifling a thing is to us, it is sure to make
a disturbance with tho passengers, and
that’s what we have to’ avoid as much as
possible, for they are easily scared.
' -.i.i-THE FIREMEN.
“The firemen and coal passers make a
heap of trouble, too, at times. They’re
a hard set, and get queer notions in their
heads. . You better believe they ain’t
particular about their mess, nor nothing!
Men that never know anything but
corned beef and cabbage, and poor at
that, turn up their noses at what they
get here, which is, the most of it, just
the samo as cabin passengers pay one
dollar a head for without grumbling.
One day last week a procession of them
came down tho gangway, headed by one
of tho water tenders, with a kid in M3
hand full of cold meat. They were all
mad and ready to fight.
“ ‘Luk at that, sur, says the waiter ten
der, 'and see is it fit for a decent man to
eat.’
“ ‘What’s the matter with it?’ said I.
“ 'Sure, it’s that rotten it’s all soft,’
say3 the water tender, “and wc won’t
be humbugged with rotten mate.”
. “I looked at it and langhed till the
tears ran down my checks. ‘Get out of
here, you fool,’ I says to the man; 'don’t
yon know tenderloin of beef when yon
see it? That’s off the captain’s joint;
you’ll get bull beef next time 1'
- “They went away grumbling auj say
ing they wanted mate that wouldn't ‘let
their teeth thru’ every bite they gev it T
“There are times, too, when it is touch
and go with a man for his life, and he
ha3 to think quick, and think right, to
save it. I was on a tug once as second
engineer, and went ontside to look over
the guard, with a long-ncso copper oiler
in my hand. The bulwarks were low, and
just as I leaned over to take a look aft
she gave a roll and pitched me over.
Before I got into the water I thought to
myself my only chance is to catch that
fender hanging over the side, for it was
dark as a pocket. So. I grabbed for it
and struck it, and it struck hard, you
bet, too, for we were going ten miles an
hour. It was all I could do to hold ou,
and after that it was a minute or so be
fore I conld tMnk what to; do next. I
never could have got out pf that if it
hadn’t been for her stem settling in a
sea that threw me up on a 1 guard, so I
could hold on and tumble inboard. It
was the narrowest squeak I; ever had in
my life. When I got my breath I got np
and walked into the engine yoom, and tho
first engineer looked at jme with his
mouth wide open. •
“ ‘Where the hell have yoja been ?’ ho
says. 1
“ ‘Overboard,’ says I. i
“ ‘Did you lose the can 1’ he says.
“ ‘No, sir,' says I; ‘hereiit is. I held
on to it all the time.’ {
■ “‘Well, I’m damned!’ fie says, and
that’s all. *
A LIVELY OILEt.
“ Sometimes we have yettng men oat
of the shop, learning their trade, who are
anxious to get an engineer’s berth, and
are willing to take any pl *.:e to begin.
They have to go as oileU, which is, as
you cansee, the lowest inth', engine-room.
I had one once who was the greenest
youth I ever saw in my life. The guides
have oil boxes on. the cross-head, with
wicks in them like lamp wicks, and these
feed the oil to the guides, so that the
latter are always kept lubricated. Onq
day I noticed that the guides were get-
ting dryland I said to the oiler: ‘Run
npand pull the wicka out a little; they
don’t feed.’ He went up, and a little
while after I saw they wero drier than
ever. * Did you pull the -wicks out ?’ I
said to the young man.
‘“Yes, sir,’ he says, ‘I pulled ’em all
out and threw them overboard 1’
“How is that for stupidity ?
“I must take a tom around now and
see how things are going,” said the engi
neer, and he left another man in charge
while ho went above, and I sought my
state room and turned in.
Chickens Dying,
Some of onr citizens, Bays the Eufaula
Times have been losing their chickens
rapidly for several weeks, bnt they do
nob think it the genuine- cholera. One
of the chickens that died the other day
was opened and examined, and it was
found to have little or no liver, that or
gan having wasted almost entirely away.
Wo are inclined, however, to the belief
that the disease is cholera, bnt in a some
what modified form.
We find in an exchange the following
paragraph bearing on the subject, wMch
may be of some service to thoie who
try to raise their own poultry.
“ CMcken cholera is caused by several
tMngs. Damp, unclean quarters, impure
water, or a scarcity of water, indigestion,
produced from want of gravel, overfeed
ing or unwholesome food, and too much
confinement, will each and all produce
it. The removal of the cause is the first
remedy; the next is to give half a tea
spoonful of castor oil, followed by a pill
of castile soap and black pepper, several
times a day, with boiled sweet milk and
bread for feed, and clean water, in wMch
a little copperas has been dissolved, to
drink. Prevention consists in close at
tention to the welfare of tho fowls, and
the occasional uso of these remedies.
Residue.
Memoir, what wilt thou, ' r -
Troubted and forlorn? - y -
When the year (rives rotes
Wherefore chooae the thorn?
'•‘Tia for thee I suffer, ’
Memory sighed apart;
“Thon hast nad the sweetness,
I must bear the smart 1” .
Memory, what wilt thou,'■ • -— • •
Bestfess, ill at ease f
When the now wine sparkles
Wherefore tinnk the loot? " V - \
“ ’Tis for thee I suffer,"
Memory efgbed again;
“ Thou hast had the aweeictsa, ‘J t
I the dregs must drain l” .
Katb Putnam Osgood.
—Atlantic Monthly for February. . . . „ i _ .-
An impatient’New Orleans girl ad
dresses her lover through the Times of
that city as follows:
Give me kieses—do not stay.
Courting in that careful way: '
All the coins your lips can-print
Never will exhaust the mint;
Kiss me, then.
Every moment and again 1
Give me kisses—nay; ’tis true,
1 am just aa rich as you;
And for every kisa I owe
I cjn pay you back, you know;
Kiss me, then.
Every moment- and again.
ELECTION OF PRESIDENT*
Morton’s New Method of Counting
the Vote—How He Proposes to Pre
vent Inaccuracies.
■Washington, February 6.—Tho hill
reported by Mr. Morton to regulate tho
counting of votes for President and Vice
President, provides that both houses o£
Congress shall meet together at I o’clock
on the lost Wednesday in January next
succeeding the meeting of the Electoral
College, and bo presided over by the
President of the Senate. One teller shall
be appointed by the Senate and two by
tho House, and they shall receive from
tho presiding officer the certificates as
they are opend, and after reading them
aloud, shall make a list of the votes as
they appear from tho certificates. The
result of their count and names of per
sons, if. any elected, shall then be an
nounced by the President of tho Senate.
If, however, upon the reading of any of
the certificates any question shall be
raised in regard to counting tho votes
therein certified, the Senate shall with
draw to its chamber and each house shall
decide upon the question raised. No
electoral vote or votes from any State to
the counting of which objections have
been made shall be accepted, except by
the affirmative vote of’ both houses.
When the two houses have voted they
shall immediately reassemble, and the
presiding officer shall then announoe the
decision of the question submittod, and
any other question pertaining to the ob
ject for which the two houses assembled
may be submitted and determined in lika
manner. , , .-
The second section of the bill provides
that if more than one return shall bo re
ceived by the President of tho Senate
from the State, purporting to be the cer
tificate of the electoral votes given, at the
last preceding election for President and
Vice President, in such State, all such
returns shall bo opened by him in the
presence of the two houses* and the re
turns shall he counted, which the two
houses, acting separately, shall decide to
be true and valid returns.
Tho remaining ilWM.Of filln bill
limits each Senator and Kbpresehtatiro
to ten minutes in speaking on any one
question, and provide that after such
debate has lasted two hours the majority
of each house may direct the main ques
tion to be put without further debate,
and provide that a joint meeting of the
two houses shall not be dissolved until
the electoral votes are all counted, and
the result announced, but. it shall be
competent for either house, acting sep
arately, in tho manner provided, to take
a recess not beyond 10 o'clock next morn-
ing.
.Help. . ;
Trim tlio New York World.]
There is a promise that the vexatious
“servant gal” problem maybe solved by
an English lady of wealth, Mrs. Craw-
shay, who has made herself known to the
public in other experimental efforts to
revolutionize the world for the better.
Oat of the nine hnndred thousand super
fluous females in Great Britain, she has
succeeded in engaging five young gentle
women, who are willing to earn a living
in her castle as domestic servants. They
act as cook, lady’s maid, kitchen maid,
maid, dairy znaid and npper house maid;
They arc paid no larger wages than the
former incumbents of these - positions.
Bnt Mrs. Crawshay treats them as equals -
while they are “off duty,” permits them
to mingle in the drawing room among
the guests of the castle, and takes them
by turns riding with.her In her carriage.
And the experiment so far has been
Mghly successful. The young ladies have -
proved to be admirable servants. They
have had no rows with the mistress. They
have been neither drunk nor thievish, ana
breakages and carpet tearing and dirt
and disorder under tTieir regime have
been almost unknown. In short, Mrs.
Crawshay thinks she has found
a way to lift the domestic nightmare from
the bosoms of housekeepers, and afford a
means of livelihood to many thousands of
well-bom and intelligent girls who now-
have to struggle so hard to obtain places
as governesses, companions, school
teachers and clerks. If this lady reform
er succeeds in establishing her new sys
tem there is hope that relief may ulti
mately come to mistresses in this coun
try. There is a very large rises of
American girls who obtain a scanty and
miserable living as workers in factories
and shops in the cities who are too proud
to do house service, though the wages for
the latter, all things considered, are four
fould. Properly trained they would make
better “help” than the majority of im
ported domestics, who after all come
from the peasant condition of society in
Europe and know little of house service
until they reach these shores. Anything
that promises relief from the present
cMef trouble of housekeeping will be
hailed with delight by mutrresee; and
it is needless to say that Mrs. Crawshay’a
forthcoming pamphlet, in which she will
give the details and relate the result of
her experiment, will be looked for with
much interest.
Sligfctly .Premature.
The Mobile Register says a “ciTil
righter” entered a coffee saloon in that
city last Monday morning for refresh
ment. He was black as Erebus, ragged
as to sMrt, seatless as to breeches. Had
Ms garments fallen from him, they could
have walked off without difficulty. Ho
took a seat and lolled back like King
Kalikaua. He rolled the wMtes of his
eyes around in triumph. He grinned a
complacent grin, and then ho called for
coffee and cake. Thereupon the propri
etor proceeded to interview him. IDs
ebonyship was never more astonished in
his life when he found several chairs
broken over Ms head and picked Mmsclf
up from the sidewalk. With dejected
visage and limping gait he passed away
muttering, “I thought de dam thing done
passed.” He had anticipated the Senate
and the President’s signature.
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