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THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
THIRTY-NINTH DAY.
■—-rsKsya—
the treasury muddle.
The sub-finance committee on the
edition of the treasury did not re-
C f dav. but will report to-morrow
***£jin order to do which it will
* 0 T?f.’night. It had Mr. Angler, the
7**;•rr/Ssurcr, before it to-day, who
former familiarity with the condi-
showea „ >• te> B g nances- ft j 3 under-
U ^d the committee will advise still more
ltooa ..,„i. the necessity of removing
^“"^temporarily at least. It seems
^understood it also will recommend
*^7ofMr. Bacon’, bill.
tt.g-ie.is: ‘siiruTSit
toZlb* remaining hero until
£tt-dav w hich members seem to think
hettertban the expense of an impeach-
SCIlt JIACOS AH® BRUNSWICK BONDS.
The House, last night, passed the res-
olntion declaring the supplemental issuo
of Macon and Brunswick railroad bonds
null and void, but by an overwhelming
maiority rejected the proviso excepting
such of those bonds as were bought on
the faith of the resolution of 1872 de
claring them valid. Also, passed the res-
elution authorizing the Governor to sell
the road on the first of Juuo.
The House took up the Senate resolu
tion providing for reimbursing Branch &
Sons and Herring, of Augusta, and oth
ers, for loss occasioned by the purchase
of these bonds on the faith of the reso
lution of 1872. The resolution was dis
agreed to by an overwhelming vote—29
vea3 to 106 nays. Black, Clarke and
Walsh entered a protest.
THE TAX EXEMPTION.
The House and Senate are squabbling
over the amendment to the tax act ex
empting $100 of personal property from
taxation. The Committee of Conference,
by a majority report, recommended the
House t» recede from the amendment,
but the House refused twice.
SENATE—BIBBS PASSED.
The Senate passed the following House
bills: To repeal the law exempting
manufactories from taxation. Passed
by a vote of 23 yeas to 16 nays.
To relieve indigent soldiers.
To provide for the payment of insol
vent costs of the Solicitor General of the
Macon circuit.
To authorize the Mayor of Americas to
tiy certain criminal cases.
To amend the act to create the County
Court of Baldwin.
HOUSE—UNIFICATION.
The House, on motion of Mr. Adams,
reconsidered the action tabling tho reso
lution from the Education Committee in
rcferenco to the report of the commission
on unification. Mr. Rovill offered an
amendment discontinuing the commis
sion, which was adopted and the rosolu
tion agreed to.
INEBRIATE ASYLUM.
Mr. Brown offered a resolution appoint
ing a commission to report at the next
meeting of the Legislature on the practi
cability of establishing an inebriate asy
lum. Agreed to.
BIBBS PASSED.
The following Senate bills passed the
House:
To incorporate Tennille.
To amend tho act organizing a Court
of Common Pleas for Augusta
To enable persons to renounce home
steads.
LOST.
The bill to amend the charter of
lnmbus was lost.
THE TEXAS PACIFIC.
Tho resolution requesting our Con-
gressmen to vote for tho bill granting aid
to the Texas Pacific railway, which
was reconsidered a few days ago, was
taken up and indefinitely postponed.
Mr. Anderson’s bill to provide for the
consolidation of the offices of Surveyor
General and Treasurer was lost.
Notice was given in the Senate of a
motion to reconsider the action passing
the House bill repealing the law exempt
ing manufacturers from taxqfion.
ADDITIONAL FACTS ABOUT THE TEEASUET
Co-
The Committee of the Treasury to
morrow, in a report, will pursue tho same
lino with additional specifications of ne
glect and misconduct. They will say tho
Treasurer hypothecated the rental of the
State road without authority; that
vouchers of Bullock warrants for claims
against the State road paid by the Treas
urer two years ago,were by some curious
circumstance never reported to tho Leg
islature, nor even presented to be placed
to his credit until the committee notified
him they would close the report forth
with. They will state that $500,000 State
bonds, winch have been issued by au
thority of the Legislature, simply to be
used os collateral for a special loan were
used a second time by Jones to effect
another loan, which is equivalent to
Jones issuing bonds himself without se
curity.
Later—This afternoon Jones brought
another claim he had paid of $19,000 to
Charles P. McCalla, State Road informer,
which had no voucher; but asked the
committee to wait until morning to en
able him to furnish proof of payment.
FORTIETH DAY. •
Special to Telegraph and Messenger.]
Atlanta, February 27,1875.
The sub-Financo Committee made a
supplemental report this morning upon
the condition of tho Treasury. They
reiterated the charges of incompetency,
as telegraphed last night.
After allowing all lawful credits and
vouchers they show a balance of six
thousand dollars against tho Treasurer.
The committee, however, state that they
make no attack on the integrity of the
Treasurer. Ho asked credit on the pro
tested check of John King; also on
counterfeit money; also claimed credit
money paid to McCalla, which the com
mittee felt that they were not author
ized to allow.
Besides the points telegraphed last
night, they condemn him for paying
bonds which every well informed citizen
believed to have been previously paid.
They condemn Mm because ho keeps no
record of the bonds paid; because ho
keeps no account by which to know his
bilonces in the various banks; because
in some instances he can’t tell certainly
whether certain bonds have been paid or
not. They, however, excuse him to some
extent on account of recent illness.
The Senate ordered a hundred copies
printed and adjourned.
After reading the report in the House,
Mr. Black offered a resolution acquitting
Jones of dishonesty and authorizing tie
Governor to employ a suitable and effi
cient person to assist the Treasurer in
readjusting the business of bis office.
Other resolutions of a similar character
0 ^ CT °d by Mr. Jones, of Burke.
Messrs. Lawton and Turner, of Brooks,
•'aid they thought tho censure and indig
nation of tho people sufficient punish
ment; that tho present law3 provided
remedies.
The resolution and reports of tho sub-
Finance Committee were referred to tho
Joint Finance Committee for action.
At the afternoon session the Joint
committee reported to tho House for
adoption a resolution which is substan
tially as follows:
Resolved, That the Treasurer ha3 not
discharged the duties of his office in con
formity with tho law, and by such non
performance, lias endangered the public
property of the State and seriously im
paired its credit, and that his mauage-
raentof tho Treasury receives our un
qualified condemnation; also that tho
Governor bo directed to employ a snitablo
person to assist tho Treasurer, and make
a complete registration of bonds paid, or
yet to be paid; that if upon further in
vestigation it appears that the State has
5? n- * 0S3 ky his mismanagement of
the reasury the Governor institute suit
again*, the Treasurer and his securities
for such loss.
Mr. Turnbull moved the adoption of
the resolution.
Mr. Graham, of Dade, moved to take
each resolution separately, whereupon a
debate occurred on the resolution of con
demnation.
Mr. Jones, of Burke, opposed the reso
lution. He could not vote for the whole
sale condemnation of an old and faithful
officer.
Mr. Anderson, of Cobb, said if the gen
tleman who has just spoken conld see
nothing in the report of the committee to
indicate that the Treasurer deserved
condemnation, he certainly is at liberty
to vote against the resolution; bnt the
unanimous sentiment of- tho joint Fi
nance Committee is that the Treasurer
has been guilty of a negligence wMch
threatened great, loss to the State, and
wMch merited the condemnation of tho
entire people of the State.
Mr. Harrison, of Quitman, was willing
to vote for the resolntion, though ho dis
liked to condemn a man on an cx parte
report.
The House reassembles to-night. It
is the intention of the
dispose of the matter to-i
and go home. They have
sary arrangements to leave. The truth
is they don’t know what to do. The law
yers can’t agree upon any certain way to
remove the Treasurer except by impeach
ment, and that is too expensive.
The Senate Reconsidered the action
passing tho Honso bill to repeal the act
exempting manufactures from taxation.
A motion to take it up failed.
BATES.
The Senate is doing nothing.
The House is engaged in a warm dis
cussion. Mr. Speer made an appeal to
tho Honso in behalf of Treasurer Jones,
which was applauded by tho galleries.
Mr. Carlton wants to stay and acquit or
convict. The resolutions meet with con
siderable opposition for a variety of
reasons.
Potash Farrow has issued a circular to
the Republicans of Gergria, proclaiming
a great defalcation by the Democrats. It
is next to impossible to take action to
night, and it is po33ible they may ad-
ithout *
journ sine die without doing anything.
THE BATEiT.
Atlanta, February 27.—The Senate
h«s adjourned to Monday. The Houso
is still discussing Jone3.
Washington, February 26.—In the
Senate the tariff bill was reported from
tho Committee on Finance without
amendment, tho committee being equally
divided on tho bill. It was placed on tho
calendar.
In the House a compromise was made
as to business. Instead of occupying the
day in tho reading of yesterday’s journal,
the day was given to tho appropriation
bills, and the evening session wa3 assign
ed to debate on tho force hill, and the
previous question is to he called on it to
morrow.
The Senate bill to remove the political
disabilities of C. D. Anderson, of Texas,
was passed.
The House went into committee on the
sundry civil appropriation bill.
New York, February 26.—The bark
Hercules, with '2,400 barrels sugar, and
valued at $70,000, was sunk.
While the congregation of St. Andrews
church, mostly women and children, were
hearing vespers, tho wall of the adjacent
building, recently burnt, fell through the
roof, and the church congregation “pan
icked.” Five are dead, and two expected
to die, ten seriously wounded and fifty
hurt.
Charlestown, W. V., February 26.—
The Legislature adjourned to-day, and
meets in Wheeling in November. The
House, after a stormy session, appointed
a board of managers to impeach Auditor
Bennett and Treasurer Burditt for high
crimes in office. The investigation of the
management of tho State Finances con
tinues during tho recess.
Knoxville, February 26.—Tho dam
age from tho flood throughout East Ten
nessee is great. No mails yesterday.
Probably it will a week before trains will
run over the Tennessee, Georgia and Vir
ginia railroads.
Annapolis, February 26. — Gordon
Claude, a cadet engineer, has been dis
missed from tho Naval Academy for re
fusing to fence with a colored cadet,
Washington, February 26.—In the
Mississippi investigation committee the
Republicans sign one and tho Democrats
another. The majority report closes
with a recommendation for the passage
of tho caucus force bill, and that the
violent action in Vicksburg justifies Ames
in calling on Grant for troops.
James N. Tyner has been nominated
for Second Assistant Postmaster General;
Jerome J. Hindes, Marshal of the South
ern District of Alabama.
Tyner, Second Assistant Postmaster
General; a large number of Indian
agents and postmasters, Clinton, at
Brownsville. Tenn.; Boone, at Newber
ry, S. C.; Hall, at Port Gibson, Miss.;
Allen, at Brenbam, Texas; Gove, at Mil-
ledgeville, Ga.; Waters, at Lebanon,
Tenn.; and Putney, at Albany, Ga.
It is conceded that tho Democrats
gained a substantial and great victory by
allowing tho debate on tho civil rights
bill to close Saturday afternoon, after
which a limited debate i3 to continue in-
definintcly on amendments.
The Republicans were determined to
force a vote on Thursday night. Had
this been done, it would have left two
additional day3 for Pinchback, Louisiana
and the caucus force bill. The Demo-
ocrats are now confident of defeating all
other political legislation.
The proceedings in the House on tho
sundry civil appropriations bill were dry
and uninteresting. Tho items purchasing
Miss Ransom’s picture of General Thom
as, and Carpenter’s picturo of tho Sign
ing of tho Emancipation Proclamation,
at ten thousand and twenty-five thou
sand dollars respectively, were stricken
out on a point of order, and one for Miss
Vinnio Eeamo’s statue of Admiral Farra-
gut inserted, the latter being under a
contract. When the committee roae, the
bill was not
ing question _
to pay tho expenses of tho
possession of the New Iberia quicksilver
mines, the famous McGarranan claim.
The session to-night was for debate only
on the force bill.
The fact that tho Democrats waived
their rights to have the long journal of
yesterday read, which would have con
sumed six or seven hours, is probably an
indication that they have not'much ap
prehension that the forco bill can bo
passed.
Ship owners memorialize against the
* abolition of the lighthouse
proposed
boards.
Washington, February 26.—The mi
nority report af the Mississippi Commit
tee report that the whites of Vicksburg
pay about 99 per cent, of the taxes which
are collected and disbursed by negroes.
Tho city debt in 1869 was $13,000, and
now is $140,000. This burden has been
imposed by reckless legislation upon a
population of ten thousand, less than
half of whom are wMte. A corrupt and
infamous ring composed of negroes exist
ed at Vicksburg and in the county forsere-
ral years, who by forgeries,peculations and
systematic frauds upon the revenue, have
impaired tho credit, impoverished the
people and augmented taxes to practical
confiscation.
Sheriff Crosby and the tax collector
were personal friends of tho corrupt offi
cials, and by manipulating juries ren
dered conviction impossible. He admit
ted to bail personal friends, charged with
the gravest crimes, upon worthless bonds.
Judge Brown publicly declared that the
proseention of Cardoza was a persecution,
when every honest man in Vicksburg
knew his guilt, and by his partizansnip
destroyed public confidedce in his court.
Tho tax-payers’ league was organized
irrespective of party. Crosby’s bonds
were worthless. Tho tax-payers had a
right to demand Crosby’s resignation.
His resignation was voluntary, and not
the result of violence or threats.
Tho killing of two whites and 20 or 30
negroes was owing to an attempt of the
negroes of Warren county to invade
Vicksburg, which Crosby advised at tho
instigation of Gov. Ame3. Preparations
for tho defence of tho city were made
by the Mayor, and tho conduct of the
citizens wa3 justified by nature’s highest
law—self-preservation. They acted in
defence of their families and homes. It
was a mercy to tho women, white and
black, that tho negroes were cheeked.
Had they entered the city they would
have been aasisstedby a well organ
ized body of negroes within tho city,
ready to co-operate with tho invaders.
There is no wbito league or political or
ganization in Vicksburg.
Caicago, February 26.—Judge Blod
gett, of the United States Circuit Court,
has decidedthatalifeinsurance company
is competent to restrict its liahility in
case of death brought on by the insanity
of tho holder of its policy, wMch contains
a clause declaring the company not liable
in such cases. l’Ms decision is in oppo
sition to many provious decisions on tho
8nbjcct, as it has generally been held, in
law, that insanity is essentially a disease,
and that against it insurance companies
could not be protected.
Philadelphia, February 26.—The
Mayor has proclaimed the law imposing
a penalty of ten thousand dollars or
twenty-five years’ imprisonment for kid
napping, and a heavy penally for those
harboring stolen children.
Vineyaed Haven, February 26.—Tho
Edith Hall, from Wilmington for Boston,
with naval stores, is ashore on East
Chop.
Washington, February 27.—In the
Senate Carpenter (Rad.) spoke against
the passage of the civil rights bill.
The House, after disposing of a miscel
laneous mass of business, under unani
mous consent, resumed the consideration
of the force bill, and speeches were made
against it by Young of Georgia, Pierce
of Massachusetts, and Poland of Vermont.
It is stated the Cabinet agreed yester
day in no contingency to call an extra
session of Congress,
Senator Johnson, of Virginia, is too ill
to occupy his seat.
Newcastle, Del., February 27.—Tho
Yazoo is still fast. A lighter is discharg-
ing her.
Baltimore, February 27.—James Mur
phy, the Irish giant, is dead.
New York, February 27.—The Bene
factor, hence for Wilmington, N. C., col
lided with the Susan Wright. The
steamer returned to repair, and tho
schooner sunk, with a cargo of sugar
from Mantanzas. All were saved.
The schooner Addie Murchie Woods,
Halo, master, for Wilmington, N. C., wa3
met at sea in a sinking condition. Tho
captain and crew brought here. Tho
cargo of the Vicksburg was composed of
cotton, ro3in and turpentine.
One hundred Custom-house officials
have been discharged.
London, February 27.—The Pall Mall
Gazette reports that the protestant clergy
of Spain complain to Germany and other
powers that their liberty of worship is
threatened. The question of nullifying
the marriage of priests is involved.
The bark Belle Hill was wrecked off
the Irish coast and thirteen of the crew
were lost.
Salt Lake, February 27.—Tho court
allows Ann Eliza, who is suing Brigham
Young for a divorce, $3,00 lawyers’ fees
and $500 a. month pending the trial,
which Brigham is ordered to pay into
court.
Hazleton, February 27.—Three hun
dred strikers at Buck Mountain drew tho
fire from under the boiler, stopped tho
tnd fired
were sold, and prizes were scaled in pro
portion. No. 89,271 drew the capital
prize, $95,000, and No. 10,075 drew the
second prize, $38,000.
Hazelton, February 27.—Rough times
are apprehended. Men are gathering in
large numbers at the highlands. The
police have gone back in the meantime
to start the pnmp3.
Montgomery, February 27.—Fred
Wolff has been appointed assignee of the
Alabama and Chattanooga road, vice
Bailey resigned.
New Yobk, February 27.—Tho inspec
tors of buildings in the district of St An
drew’s Church are held in $3,000 bail.
The wounded are doing well.
London, February 27.—Charles Tyrell
was buried beside Ben Johnson in West
minster Abbey with great pomp.
Port Jarvis, February 27.—The gorge
in the Delaware river broke to-day. The
water rose twenty feet. The suspension
bridge is threatened from the piled ice.
The debate on the force bill closed at 4
o’clock, without any remarkable fea
tures, and then the Democrats found
that the plan which they had devised of
delaying action on the bill was a failure;
that the plan was to make motions for
the suspension of the rules on various
propositions, such motions generally tak
ing the precedence of all other matters;
that the Speaker declined to entertain
the first motion of the kind attempted by
Beck, on the ground that the agreement
made yesterday would have been entirely
worthless if that were permitted. The
voting on the bill and amendment then
proceeded, but made little progress,
as the dilatory motions were interposed
between each question. The 13th section
—the habeas corpus one—was amended
by limiting it to two years’ duration, and
to the States of Louisiana, Arkansas,
Mississippi and Alabama. Then a mo
tion by Cannon, of Illinois, to strike out
tho 13th section was rejected, although
all the Democrats and thirty-sir Repub
licans voted to strike it out. Then a mo
tion was made by E. R. Hoar, of Massa
chusetts, to strike out tho first, second
and fourth sections, which was voted on
and rejected by 120 to 125.
The universal and confident opinion
here among Democrats and the ablest
lawyers, is that tho Supremo Court will
declare the civil rights bill unconstitu
tional.
John Bruce, District Judge for Ala
bama, and F. F. Prentis3, postmaster at
Albany, Ga.
Tho nomination of Pordeo for District
Judge for Louisiana still hang3 fire in
the Judiciary Committee.
Chattanooga, February 27.—Lookout
Flouring Mills have been burned. Loss
$50,000; insurance $33,000. A number
of women and children have refugeed
from the flood. No lives have been lost.
Tho fire in tho new Union depot has been
subdued by the firemen in water np to
their waists. The water is running over
Market street.
Scranton, Pa-, February 27.—The
Cliff Locomotive Works havo been burn
ed. The loss i3 estimated at $500,000.
Two hundred and fifty men were thrown
out of employment, many of whom lost
their tools.
Madrid, February 27.—It i3 believed
the campaign against the Carlists will
close tho coming spring. Three hundred
Navarrese troops have deserted the Car-
lists, five of whom were captured and
shot.
MEETING OP THE STATE AGRI
CULTURAL SOCIETY.
the
pumps, shot the engineer and
mines.
Paris, February 27.—Des Debate say3:
Buffett declines to form a ministry.
Sbonld Buffet accept, the Left will sup
port Dnfoure for President of the Assem
bly.
Washington, February 27.—Collectors
of Internal Eevenue are instructed to sell
no more cigar stamps than are necessary
for cigars sold or moved from tbo factory.
Tho Pacific mail corruption committee
turn King and Erwin over to tho next
House. Tho other papers go to tho Dis
trict Attorney for such action as is
thought fit. The newspaper men who
accepted money for corrupt purposes
are to bo excluded from tho reporters’
gallery.
The minority and majority Mississippi
reports have been ordered printed.
Tho appropriation for the payment of
the awards mado by tho Southern Claims
Commission
Tho
ssion passed.
Elections Committee submitted a
Mr. Merriman presented a resolution
of tho North Carolina Legislature in favor
of lighthouses in Albemarle Sound.
Tho Legislature of Nevada petitions for
a repeal of tho tax oa State bank circula
tion.
The Finance Committee reported ad
versely on the bill to secure depositors in
the Freedmen’s Bank. Indefinitely post
poned.
Tho hill amending section 3,343 of the
Revised Statutes relating to stamps on
beer barrels passed.
Tho bill restricting refunding custom
duties and prescribing certain regula
tions for tbe treasury department pass
ed.
A bill amending *the Charter of the
Freedmen’s Savings Bank, and for other
purposes, passed.
Civil rights was resumed. Mr. Thur
man offered an amendment striking out
tho dauso regarding State jurors. No
other amendments have been offered yet.
The Senate is discussing tbe bill to-night.
Mr. Norwood made a telling speech.
Philadelphia, February 26. — Tho
gorgo in tbo Sehnylkill broke to-day and
Manyunk is flooded. Tho gas works are
submerged, the miil3 stopped, and 2,000
persons are unemployed.
Wolston’s cotton mill has been burned.
Harrisburg, February 26.—Tho ico in
the Juniata is moving. Several bridges
have been swept avr.iv.
London, February 26.—A steamship
hence for Hong Kong foundered in the 1
Indian ocean. Nineteen were saved, sit j
drowned and eighteen are missing.
report that Lawrence was, and Sypher
was not, elected from Louisiana.
Tho consideration of the caucus force
bill was resumed. During a colloquy
Blaine told Butler that ho was a scoun
drel. The trouble arose from tbe Demo
crats approaching tbo clerk’s desk, dur
ing roll call, their object being to see if
by not voting they could prevent a quo
rum and force a call of tho House. Atter
tbe Democrats had been ordered to their
seats, Butler stalked to the clerk’s desk
and, leaning on his elbow, watched tbe
progress of the call. He was ordered
away, but said be had ti3 much right
there ns Speaker Blaine, who at the
timo was on the floor in tho rear of tho
clerk’s desk, Cessna being in tho chair.
Calls of "order” resulted in tho affair be
ing dropped.
The House is now voting upon the
clause to striko out the habeas carpus
clause. An amendment making the sus
pension applicable only to Louisiana,
Mississippi and Alabama was adopted.
There is every indication of an all-night
session.
Ten o’clock.—Tho House i3 voting on
amendments to the force bill, bnt making
little progress, as three dilatory motions
ore interposed between each question.
Tbo evening session was unimportant.
The tax bill come3 up on Monday as un
finished business.
Ferry of Connecticut, Carpenter, and
Hamilton of Texas, also voted against
the civil rights bill.
Midnight.—The bill was ordered en
grossed, but the Democrats ore still
fighting it with dilatory motions.
The committee to sit daring the recess
to examine the various branches of the
civil ecrvico consists of Bontwell, Conk-
Merrimon, Eaton and Allison,
ho resolutions of tho Mississippi
Legislature in favor of the Texas Pacific
subsidy were presented.
The civil rigbt3 bill was finally passed,
and goes to tbe President.
An amendment relieving Southern ju
rors of the iren clad oath was defeated.
Mr. Logan said he would vote in favor of
the relief as a separate measure; but to
amend the civil rights bill would defeat
it. Tho vote was strictly a party vote,
except Messrs. Sprague, Schurz and Tip-
ton. Many Senators are absent. Tho
vote was 38 to 26.
Louisville, February 27.—In tbo lot
tery, thirty-eight per cent, of tho tickets
Large Attendance — Thoiuawllle—
Magnificent Hospitality—Ana bow
They were all Pleased.
Thomastille, Ga., February 25,1875.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: The
semi-annual meeting of the Georgia Ag
ricultural Society took [place in this city
ou Tuesday, over two hundred delegates
answering to tho roll-call.
The weather opened delightful, as
balmy as spring, but to-day, some clouds
are flying over, indicating rain.
The proceding3 and interest taken in
the convention havo been attended with
much profit and pleasure.
Tuesday, the discussion of scientific
questions by such learned and accom
plished gentlemen a3 Drs. Broun, Pen
dleton and Professor White, of the Uni
versity of Georgia, attracted a largo au
dience, and perhaps never in the history
of Georgia or of tho society has thero
been pronounced such an universal and
gratifying approbation as seemed mani
fested on that occasion.
When it was known that Dr. Broun of
the State University would deliver an
address on the influence of tho moon up
on vegetation, few persons dreamed of
so instructive and learned climanation of
his subject. The Doctor hit at all the
modern ideas and superstition entertain
ed in regard to tho effects that much sus
pected planet has produced and com
pletely exploded the same.
The proceedings throughout have been
unusually interesting, and mucb good ac
complished by tbe discussion of all sub
jects involving tbo progress of agricul
ture in Georgia.
. The hospitality of tbe citizens has been
unbounded, and many pleasant memories,
i when the delegate retnm3 to hi3 home,
will embalm the noble people of Thom-
asvillo forever in his heart.
The press ha3 been represented in the
persons' of Dr. Jones, of the Athens Culti
vator; H. Colton, of the New York 2Vi-
bune; Wm. Christopher, of the Fort Val
ley Miiror; Freeman, of the Calhoun
Times; C. R. Pendleton, of the Valdosta
Times; and Wm. Mason, of tho Tele
graph and Messenger.
Capt. Triplett, of the Times, has been
uniformly attentive to his guests and
brother visitors, and nothing ha3 been
left undone by this noble and popular
champion of this driving little city that
could render their stay mest agreeable.
Many thanks to CoL A. T. McIntyre and
others.
We loavo for Florida now, and may
write again from the orange groves.
J. B. G.
“■ft
Tlio State Agricultural College
Wo have heretofore noted, and with
great satisfaction, the passago by both
houses of the General Assembly of tho
bill appropriating $15,000—$5,000 a year
for three years—to tho above institution.
It i3 the first direct appropriation ever
secured by the University—a by no
means creditable fact—and is, wo trust,
tbo sign and forerunner of tho estab
lishment hereafter of a much more lib
eral system of treatment of that institu
tion by our legislators.
The credit of this good work is, wo
learn, entirely duo to the Hon. H. H.
Carlton, of Clarke county, ono of the
most active, nseinl, and influential mem
bers of tho Legislature. Tho bill would
have failed had it not been for him, and
indeed it wa3 defeated once, but nothing
daunted, ho pushed ahead and finally
carried it triumphantly through both
houses.
It will be remembered, also, to his
credit that the hill organizing a State
Geological Department originated with
him, and that though tho bill met with
tho most determined opposition, he per-
ssvered until success crowned his efforts.
Such a record 13 certainly quite an envi
able one, and we beg to congratulate not
only Los constituents on the possession of
so able, zealous and influential a repre
sentative, but also the State in having
the services of so devoted a son and ser
vant.
THE STORM IN TENNESSEE AND
NOBTH GEORGIA.
Damage on the State Boat!.
From the Atlanta Herald of yesterday
morning we copy the following report of
damages by the recent storm on the State
road and elsewhere in North Georgia
and Tennessee:
The heavy and almost incessant rains
which prevailed all over this section of
the State, from Monday night until yes
terday morning, have produced the most
disastrous results to railroads and other
property, with the loss of life in several
places.
From an interview with several officials
of the State road we learned that the
rains and wind along the line of that
road were tho severest for a long time.
Mr. Supervisor Dooly, who has been con
nected with the road for twenty years,
says he has never known the waters to
bo os high before.
From the non-arrival of the State road
trains yesterday morning, it was first re
ported that the tunnel at Tunnel Hill had
fallen in, and indeed tho walls at tbe
further end were caved in from a land
slide. Late in the day it was ascertained
that
FOUR BRIDGES OVER TUB CHICKAMAUGA.
The Boston Post says tho civil rights
bill won’t do the darkies down South any
good. Since they wore swindled out of
all their money by the Freedmen’s .Sav
ings Bank they can’t afford to patronize
the hotels, theatres, public conveyances
and “aich.”
BIVSB.
had been swept away, and possibly others.
The water in some place was four feet
over the track where it never had been
before. It is estimated at this time that
more than
ONE MILE AND A HALE
of track has been washed away at differ
ent places on the State road, and two are
known to be gone on the Nashville and
Chattanooga. The bridge over the Hi-
wosseo river, on the East Tennessee,
and Georgia road was washed away. This
bridge was over six hundred feet long,
and was in course of reconstruction and
repair.
THE STORM OF WIND
was terrible in and around Tunnel Hill,
blowing down houses, fences, trees, etc.
We learn that one man was killed in this
place by tbe falling of a house. At Re-
saca another man was drowned in tbe
river, while attempting to savo some
saw-mill stock. Another was also drowned
at Greenwood Mills.
Reports from tho neighborhood of
Wills Valley state that the destruction
by wind and flood in that section are
awful. In and around Bingold the de
vastation was great, and at Tunnel Hill
trees, houses and fences were prostrated.
It is said that yesterday morning a
stream of water three feet deep was run
ning through the tunnel.
AT CHATTANOOGA
tho Tennessee river is booming, and eve
rything being prepared for an overflow.
The samo is the situation at Rome, as
the .Oostanaula was rising very rapidly.
The telegraph wire3 are down between
Dalton and Chattanooga, and communi
cation between those places is made by
way of Washington.
Between this city and Dalton the road'
bed i3 intact and in working order.
It is also reported that a bridge be'
tween Chattanooga and Cleveland, on the
East Tennessee road is gone, which, if
true, puts a stop to travel and freight by
that route to this place.
The damage done the State road is es
timated at $80,000. Of course this is
mere surmise, and may he more or less.
The above statements are partly gath
ered from rnmor, and may be overdrawn,
which we hope will prove to bejtho case,
The forces which are at work already in
sures an early repair of the damages, and
if the present good weather continues a
day or two longer, overytning will bo
rectified within that space of timo.
LATER.
From a later dispatch, received last
night, we learn that only three bridges
on tho State road have been washed
away, instead of five as above stated.
EMINENT POKES PLAYERS.
Perils of Philanthropic states
men.
Prom tbo New York Tribune.]
They havo a great many patriots in
tbe Southern States, who went there at
the close of tbo war, and, being touched
by tbe pitiable condition of that section,
in its lack of statesmen for the local of
fices and representative positions in Con
gress, just laid aside everything and
stayed there to see them through. Some
of them, like Wm. Pitt Kellogg, of Illi
nois, took a State government to run;
others, like Mr. Pease, of Connecticut^
volunteered to represent a State like Mis
sissippi in the Senate; a great many
took the places of law givers in the State
Legislatures, and others, observing the
necessity to the government and the
people of the locality of having men in
tbe postoffices,custom-houses and revenue
service who had experience and could
support the government upon regular
salaries, immediately took all their clothes
out of their carpet bags and hung
them up preparatory to a perma
nent residence. The people of the
South are, as is well known, a very
ungrateful class of people. Knowing
how much they were indebted to these
gentlemen for staying there to see them
through, they still faded to exhibit grati
tude or respect for their benefactors.
Tbe story of the sacrifices made by these
men is very rasping to the sensibilities.
There, for instance, is George E. Spen
cer—he has sacrificed several years of
his time, and the confidence of his fel-
low-men to a very considerable extent,
simply that Alabama might be repre
sented in tbe Senate by somebody whose
presence there would be a constant re
minder of tbe fearful penally of rebellion.
Then there’s Patterson, of South Caroli
na—he sacrificed money in large amounts,
besides other things, so that South Caro
lina might have a Pennsylvania man in
the Senate. And so on, with no end of
sacrifices of a similar naturo by states
men of a similar character.
Notwithstanding all which, the white
citizens of the South, now recognized in
official dispatches a3 " banditti," persist
ently refuse to ask tbeso distinguished
persons to dinner or to invito them to
visit their families. Tho patriots, how
ever, with the largeness of view and ca
tholicity of temper characteristic of true
statesmanship, refrain from resenting
such treatment by refusing longer to
serve in official positions. On the con
trary, they overlook it all and calmly con
tinue to serve unwilling constituents and
draw regular pay. It is generally be
lieved in Administration circles that
these gentlemen incur more risks and en
counter more perils in coming to Wash
ington from their places of temporary
residence in tho South thanFarragut and
his fleet met on the passage of the forte
to New Orleans. It is understood that
mo3t of theso representative men have a
constant oscort of marines to savo them
from ,’the bloody assassin of tho comer
grocery and the red-handed murderer of
tho stump. This belief is nourished by
tbo fact that continued conversation with
tho marines has given its coloring to all
their narratives—a sort of ultra-marine,
so to speak—so that they seem always to
bo addressing tbe marines. Tho entire
American people laid its index finger on
its nose last October and asked tho Chat
tanooga outrage convention in fact if it
was not issuing an address to the ma
rines. When these representative men
go among their constituents they find it
absolutely necessary to be clothed in
chain armor and to carry a Gatling gun
in each pocket. Even then an ungrateful
people lie in wait for them with double-
barreled guns at all the cross roads, and
they only reach their seats in Congress
after being riddled with musketry.
They are frequently assassinated, and
the accounts of their several assassina
tions, as related by themselves, fo.'tn one
of tbo most thrilling volumes published
by tbo American Congress.
According to tho Louisville Courier-
Journal, a certain scientist has begun
taking a census of tbe fools of tho United
States. Ho stays in a city until a fire
breaks out in the day time, and then he
puts down the nnmber of people he sees
running to it.
,f Hie National Game at
Waslilanton—Bow schenck Won
$1MN-A Lively Gome Between
Grant and Incaiis-aiuions for n
Half Pint-Who la Kingrof the Game
In Congress—Diversions of Legisla
tors.
Washington, February 20.
General Schenck, having distinguished
himself abroad in two international scan
dals—the Mempbis-El Faso frauds in
France and tbe Little Emma Silver Mine
swindle in England—is again a candidate
for unenviable fame. This time it is as
the author of a little brochure on the
game of draw poker that he solioits the
attention, if not the admiration, of his
countrymen abroad. It is not a very dig
nified performance, hat then it is not one
that will give Europeans additional cause
to denounce us as a nation of swindlers.
It, however, strikes old poker players
at the national capital as a rather good
joke that Schenck should set himself np
as an authority on “draw.” Tbe only
time I ever heard of his winning a “big
pot” was when old Tice, the inventor of
the Tice meter, let him get away with
$10,000. It happened in this way: A
fellow named General Boynton, not the
well-known correspondent of the truly
good Deacon Richard Smith’s paper, but
an nnchnstianized heathen of the lobby,
was employed by Tice to induce Congress
to pass a law requiring the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue to compel the intro
duction of the Tice meter in every dis
tillery in the United States. Boynton is
a very shrewd lobbyist, and has quietly
worked more big things through the de
partments and Congress than every mem
ber of the third house now living. He
was formerly an Ohioan, and knew
Schencks like a book. As a poker player,
Boynton has few, if any, equals. He is
a cool, level-headed man, with a perfect
ly impassive face, and can “see you five
hundred and go a thousand better” on a
pair of deuces without displaying the
least particle of nervousness. There nev
er was an "operator" in Washington who
knew the
WEAKNESS OF LEGISLATORS
better than Boynton. Ho knew just
when and how to approach his man, and
always in a way that would defy an in
vestigating committee to find out. In
order to put Tice’s job through it wa3
necessary to obtain a favorable report on
the meter from the Committee of Ways
and Mean3. If the chairman of this im
portant committee conld be captured, .the
case was as good as won; and according
ly he arranged for a quiet little game of
draw poker in parlor No. —at Willard’s
Hotel. Tbo chairman, Gen. Schenck, old
Tice, Boynton, and another member of
Congress, who shall be nameless, made
np the quartette. The game was a lively
one—$10 "ante” $50 “blind,” and
“straddle,” if anybody felt reckless
enough to try it on. When the party
broke up rosy fingered mom was rolling
back the sombre hued curtains of night
and ushering in another day, and old
Tice’s wallet was empty. He was appar
ently very much crestfallen, and Schenck
was correspondingly happy. The next
day the Ways and Means' Committee re
ported in favor of the Tice meter, and
the bill became a law, very much to the
sorrow of the distillers. The meter was
a fraud of the first water. They cost
from $1,500 to $3,000, giving Tice a mar
gin of $1,000 or $2,500, according to the
size of the meter. I have met scores of dis
tillers who were compelled to pay for the
“blasted fraud,” as they all called it, but
I-never yet found one who succeeded in
running a gallon of whisky through tho
so-called meter. Tice, however; was not
to blame—so he says. His meter was a
good machine 03 he invented it, but tho
committee of scientific men who sat upon
it under the act of Congress directed va
rious improvements to be made, which
rendered it impossible for a drop of high
wine to get through it. The unfortunate
distillers who paid their money and didn’t
get their choice, have been petitioning
Congress over since for relief, bnt the
Ways and Means Committee ha3 never
been able to determine where tbe respon
sibility rested—with Tice, the CommiS'
sioner of Internal Revenue, the commit
tee of scientific men, or with Congress.
GRANT GREAT ON BLUFF 1
There are plenty of statesmen (?)
about Washington who can give Schenck
lessons in the art of draw poker. I be
lieve Gen. Grant can beat him “out of
his boots,” as the Western gamblers
wonld express it. Next to a fast horse,
the President loves a jolly party of boon
companions, and a game of "draw,” with
all the accompaniments. There are
many stories told about the wonderful
pluck with which Gen. Grant bets his
“hands.” He plays them “right np to
the handle,” every time, said on old Pa
cific coast gambler to me the other day,
when we were talking about poker play
ers. “I have seen some mighty big
games of 'draw* in my timo,” said my in
formant, “bnt the allfiredest game I ever
saw was one Rufe Ingalls and Grant
played in my quarters at Fort Dallas,
Oregon, in the winter of 1853. We had
been playing 'cutthroat’ until after mid
night. I was pretty well ‘slewed,’ and
turned in and fell asleep. Just as day
was breaking I awoke, and there sat
Grant and Ingalls playing 'draw.* There
was only about a half pint left in the
bottle, and they were
BETTING HIGH FOE IT.
They had black and white beans for
chips, and there was about a quarter of a
peck piled np on tbe table when I woke
np. What first attracted my attention
was hearing Grant say “ Rufe, Fll see
'lie) you aud (hie) go a million better. 1 '
could scarcely restrain myself. I knew
they hadn’t a half dollar to bless them
selves with, and that the whisky they
were playing for was the last of a five
gallon keg sent to me from ’Frisco, and
here they were squandering imaginary
millions over it. Well, I lay still until
they had bet about a hundred millions,
when I got np quietly and took a look at
their hands. Grant had a pair of deuces
and Ingalls had three jacks. I waited
half an hour to see who would get the
last drink, but my eyes were too heavy,
and I dropped asleep on my stool. When
I awoke it was broad daylight, and
Grant and Ingall3 were both under the
table. I measured the beans piled np on
the table, and thero wa3 just three pecks
and a quarter.”
"Who got tho whisky ?”
“Fll never tell you that, but it’s my
opinion Grant did. He had tho bottle in
his hand, any how !”
There are scores of good poker players
in official life now. Let U3 take
bad hand. The eye is always watched
careinuy by experienced players, as » w
organ is the quickest tell-tale. A pair
spectacles to a large degree .vmralla
the expression of the eye. If Eben C.
Ingersoll, ex-member of Congress from
Illinois, conld only wear spectacles he
wonld be a very successful pokerist. He
bets a hand very bravely, but his open,
honest, manly face is sure to betray his
hand, and his enemies frequently are
enabled to take advantage of it.
I have not yet even touched the Senate
nor the Hou»e—big bonanzas, both of
tnem. Let me run over a list of Senators.
I don t know how
A HASTY LOOK AT THE FIELD.
Attorney General Williams, like nearly
all Pacific elopers, is devoted to the game
of poker. I think, however, that since he
left the Senate he has not played a game.
I have often heard him Bay that he had
rather play a game of poker than eat his
dinner.
It is by no means improbable that
Gen. Bristow, Secretary of the Treasnry,
can sit as quietly behind three king3 and
a pair of aces and not betray his feelings
as any one in Washington. I do not say
that he knows how to play, but I have
yet to see a Kentuckian of his build and
nature who did not drink sugar in his
whisky and play poker. A man in Ken
tucky who cannot play cards wonld be
like ono in Cincinnati who could not eat
pork.
As to the other members of the Cabi
net I cannot speak. I should think that
Robeson might enjoy a hand, and per
haps Jewell. Belknap does not know
enough, and Fish is too aristocratic; be
sides, he prefers his brandy without the
trouble of playing. I judge that Delano
might play a pretty stiff hand if he could
find time without neglecting the Indians.
If thero are any of the Sapreme Court
Judges who play the fascinating game, I
do not know it. I would naturally sup
pose that Field, being a man of specta
cles and ordinary thrift, would play a
strong game. Spectacles ore a great ad
junct to the game of poker. As explain
ed by General Schenck in his treatise on
the game, it is essential to maintain a
placid face, |0 as not to disclose to your
opponents by any expression of the face
your joy or your chagrin at a good or
SENATOR ALLISON
is of late years, but when I used to play
with him, he was the pluckiest better to
be encountered around the board. He
didn’t seem to care for money, and he
never let his opponent ran eff with his
“blind” without knowing what he did it
on. Sometimes he lost, and sometimes
he made, just like all players. One thing
is certain, he paid his losses like a man.
Nobody ever carried his “ooup” over
twenty-four hours. He was always ready
for a game when a member of the House,
and has sat up until daylight many a
time. He and Schenck were very inti
mate, and have had many a game to
gether.
Senator Bayard is an excellent poker
ist. He plays the game like a gentleman,
as he does everything else. He comes
from very good poker stock. His father
and his grandfather were both in the
Senate, and both were expert sportsmen.
The present Senator does not frequent
clubs or gambling shops, bnt I venture
to say he would not decline a quiet game
with his eqnals in his own smoking room.
Senator Boutweli’s name is the next
that meets my eye. Now I hope I may
not shock your New Ehgland nerves by
mentioning his name in this connection;
but tbe truth must be told—Mr. Bout-
well plays poker. As soon as you catch
your breath, I will explain farther, that
he plays for smaller stakes than any Sen
ator in Congress. He is passionately fond
of the game, * MUM
hards,
forfeits, . _
nela of corn, or other inexpensive articles.
These with Boutwell represent money,
and it wonld astonish you to see how
closely he guards them and how carefully
he bets them.. He probably would not
play for money, although’ the sinful na
ture is in him. It is poker, whether it is
played with buttons or sovereigns. Be
sides, he cares as mnch for buttons as
Schenck does for dollars.
SENATOR POWELL CLAYTON, OF ARKANSAS.
Sere’s a man that ought to own the
temple. As Captain Cuttle says, “if eny-
body ken, he ken.” He has got but one
arm, it’s true, but with the aid of his
teeth he can manage to play about the
liveliest game of poker of anybody in our
set. Like the Attorney-General, Senator
Clayton had rather play poker than oat
his dinner. For my part, I had rather
eat my dinner than play with him. He
wonld get out of a sick bed to play poker,
and he is even so fond of it that he some
times plays with persons whom ho knows
will never pay him if they lose, and who
will demand the money if they win. Ho
i3 on agreeable companion at the hoard,
takes the winnings and the losings good
humoredly, and is ever ready to give or
demand “satisfaction.” I suppose it is
very well known that when one player
wins a considerable sum from another, he
is in etiquette bound to give "satisfac
tion” to the other when called upon, i. e.,
give the loser an opportunity to get even.
Carpenter does not play, nor does
Chandler or Conkling. It ha3 been as
certained, however, that Chandler will do
the drinking whilo Clayton is doing the
playing. Cameron would not, I think,
hesitate at a little game of draw, provid
ing thero was lote of champagne to drink.
DORSEY OF ARKANSAS
is another poker-player after Schenck’s
own heart; but Lord! how he hates to
lose. Dorsey likes the game so well that
I am not sure hut he would play if he
never won. I am sure, however, of ono
point, and that is that he wonld be will
ing to play fora week steady if he was
winning all the time. As between him
and his colleague Clayton, the latter is
by far the better player.
Mo3t of the public men in Arkansas
are proficient poker-players. I remem
ber Clayton’s predecessor, Senator MC'
Donald, who flourished a high hand about
Washington at one time. He is what is
known as a jolly, rollicking good fellow,
free with his money, except to creditors,
and generally well liked by the boys.
He used to piay very recklessly and was
very often plucked. His colleague, Rioe,
whom Dorsey succeeded, is also a poker
ist of distinction. He went out of the
Senate somewhat reduced in pocket, and
is now practicing law, with his office in
the building adjoining what is facetious
ly known as the ches3 club, on Fourteenth
street. It is called a chesa club because
nothing but poker is played in it. Rice
must be succeeding pretty well in his
law practice, as he boards at the Arling
ton and drives hi3 own horses.
It would be a strange thing if Senator
Jone3 of Nevada did not play cards, but
thus far I have never heard that he does.
He comes from a country where they bet
all that a band is worth, and if he likes
the amusement, he has money enough to
gratify it. But if ho does not know the
game I wonld not advise him to learn it.
It would be a very expensive Ie3son for
him if he employed Col. Bill Shaffer,
Clark Ingersoll, Clint Wheeler, and the
other kittens to teach him. What a fine
harvest they would make of it! He
would be the best fellow in the world as
long as he was under their tuition.
Jones’ predecessor, Gen. Nye, was popu
lar with the card playere, and kept up his
end with them.
Gen. Logan, I believe, has given up
poker. He was a very good player, as I
understand, but since he joined the
church he ha3 reformed. Never again
will his clarion voice be heard across the
green baize, “I go twenty blind,” ‘Til
seo you and go twenty better.”
PLAYERS IN THE HOUSE.
Bat I must hurry through, giving only
the most prominent of the gay gambo
tiers in the House. It has been the cus
tom to connect tho name of Charley Far-
well, of Chicago, with all gossip about
poker, as though he were king of the
ame. This is unjust to Charley, and
etracts from the fame of others who
have a fashion of holding more aces than
he. Farwell is a good, fair, av.erage
layer, is quiet, keeps a good watch on
is antagonists, and lays low. Sometimes
he sooops in a big stake, and sometimes
he is pretty badly scooped himself.
There is not a poker player in Congress
that is more popular with his, associates.
He never lets his cord-playing interfere
with his duties as Congressman, and I
don’t believe he ever played a game dur
ing a session of the House. But he is by
no means the best player in Congress.
There are half a dozen who are his equals
or superiors; but he is eminent author
ity on the game, and could have written
as reliable a hook on poker as the *one
recently fathered by Gen. Schenck. And
Farwell would never have forgotten to
describe tho " straddle,” an omission on
the part of Schenck which is unacconnta-
ble.
Probably the man lu Congress who Has
lost more money than any other is Fer-
nsQlo Wood. He has been playing in
"Washington now well nigh twenty years,
and he Hm been steadily losing. _ He 13
the same at a poker table as he is in his
seat in tho House—the model of deport
ment. He never takes off his coat nor
moults his dignity. He is the same
calm, impassive, opaque individual that
is daily seen in the House. He swears a
little occasionally, but he scarcely un
bends for this purpose. He also occasi
onally takes a little brandy and water,
but this needs no unbending. His face
is a perfect mask. If he bolds three aces
and a pair of kings his face gives out no
indication, and he can bet a thousand
dollars on a pair of nines and nobody
could tell that he was bluffing. Yet
somehow or other he does not seem to get
along, and tbo boys get his money. Prob
ably Ingersoll, Schenck, Allison and
Wood havo played togethor oftener than
than any four men in Congress. They
used to meet at Walcker'g, where a zoom
was provided, end where ltmeh^ind drinks
were served of the beet sad in the beet
style. Wh*t indaoement was there to go
home P A nioe, warm fire, pleasant com
pany, eigen to smoke, everything to eat
and drink, and the powibility of maka
ing several hundred dollars; and, indeed,
the possibility of losing it—bnt that is
another matter.
KENTUCKY PLAY2BS.
George M. Adams, of Kentucky, plays
a very strong game of cards, having been
at it a number of yean. All Kentuckians
speak highly of Adams’ talent. Being a
bachelor, he is also an all-night player.
He drinks well, tells a good story, and
worth.
bets his hands for oQ t
or all they are
Speaking of Kentuckians reminds me
of Boyd Winchester, an ex-member from
that State. He used to be an
inveterate
gamester. He would play all day and
all night, and for two orthree days run
ning. He oould always be depended up
on. When the boys wanted to get up a
little game they knew they had only to
find Winchester to make np the hand.
He would leave a committee meeting or
a eession of the House to take a hand at
draw; and he was a fearless player. Un-
lees his opponents understood his maimer
of playing, be was likely to pocket a good
deal of their money. It was recently
shown by the Ways and Commit
tee that at about the time of the passage
of the Pacific mail subsidy, Winchester
deposited with the Sergeant-at-Arms a
thousand dollars, and by same it was
thought that he had received the money
from the corruption fund. So he was
summoned here from Kentucky to.give
his evidence. He acknowledged to hav
ing deposited the money, but ne said he
voted against the bill and did not get a
dollar from the company. He finally ac
knowledged that he made the money at
the gaming table, and being pressed
somewhat gave the committee quietly to
understand that one of its members could
bear testimony to the fact. He alluded
to Fernando Wood, and that gentleman
subsequently said he was personally cog
nizant of the facte. Winchester also told
some members of the committee that i£
they wanted still further evidence, he
wonld summon General Schenck, from
The
any;
Schenck had been chairman of that com!]
mittee, and they did not want to further
injure its good name.
EX-SENATOR NESMITR, OF OREGON,
now a member of the House, is one of
the most remarkable men in Congress.
He went to Oregon in 1848, and for many
years scarcely saw a' white man. He
dressed in furs and the raw hides of ani
mals, and ate whatever he could get, Bq
was a border hunter and trapper, Bach as
we read of in the Ledger. He knew noth
ing of what the world was doing for more
than twelve years, and until he was elect
ed to the Senate in 1860, and on his way
to take his seat, he never saw gas hom
ing, nor knew anything of the telegraph,
nor had ridden a railroad car. He knew
little of newspapers or anything else hut
Indians, and yet he knew how to play
poker. It sometimes puzzles me to ac
count for tho number of good poker play
ers among the backwoodsmen. To make
Nesmith happy, you havo only to play
poker with him, give him all the whisky
ho wants, a paper or two of fine cut to
bacco, and a big spittoon. He does not
play with the same crowd as Fernando
Wood does, but he plays inveterately.
You must remember that there are strata
in poker playing as well as in politics.
Fait Measure.
While Dr. Price’s True Flavoring Ex
tracts are fall measure, other extracts are
short nearly one-half what they are said
to contain, arranged to look large to de
ceive the consumer. The moat of tho so-
called two ounco flavoring extracts hold
hut one and one-quarter ounces, the four
ounce less than tbreo ounces, whilo Dr.
Price’s are full measure just as represent
ed, strong and pure. One trial will prove
that the bottles hold one-half more than
othera purporting to he the same size,
and the extracts are of the strongest and
most natural flavor.
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.
Departed ibis life, of typhoid pneumonia, on
February 21st inst., Mbs. Frances Hiix, wifo
of Bobert A Hill, aged S9 years.
A beautiful soul has left tho church below,
to Join “the general assembly and church of the
first bom” above. As a Christian she was char
acterized by a calm, trustful piety—indeed, it is
not too much to say that all the graces “which
accompany salvation” abounded in her. Greatly
beloved in the church of which sho was a mem
ber, and by relatives and friends, she is mourned
as but tew are. Her long suffering did not an
noy her, nor did she murmur at God’s providen
ces. Entirely conscious of her approaching end,
she called her grief-stricken husband and little
daughter around her, and to each gave words of
Christian comfort, and an earnest hope of an un
broken (family to meet her in Heaven. She
cheerfully gave directions in regard to her fu
neral, then asked a female relative (expressing
warm love for her) to write down what she had
to say, repeating: “That God, her Saviour, was
so nigh, and appeared all beautiful and glorious
to her view, and with the heavenly host was
beckoning her to come—that her soul was reach
ing out to go—that she wanted to go—that she
was almost there.” After bidding all adieu, she
passed from earth to Heaven, leaving a life of
condor, industry and faithful Christian dnty.
In her life she has exemplified the Christian
wife, tbo kind motbor, the true friend. May her
husband and daughter ever remember her part
ing words, “Meet me in Heaven.” The word of
inspiration will long bo applicable, “She being
dead, yet speaketh.”
“She sleeps in Jeans and is blest,
How sweet her slumbers are."
D. G. H.
Flat Woods. Twiggs 00. Go* Feb. 24,1875.
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SPECIAL FLAVORING!
vamu a, lemon, etc.,
for Flavoring Ice Cream, Cakes and Pi
"With great care, by a new pro<
we extract from the true, select Fi\
and Aromatics, each cbarac'^ielic 1
Vbr, and product Flavorings of m
excellence. Of great strength and perf\
purity. Ho poisonous oils. Every fiav:'
as represented. Ho deceit—each bettu
measure, holding one-half more than a
purporting to hold same quantity,
them once, via use no other. The
delicate, delicious flavors ever made S
superior to the cheap extracts. Ask tt
Dr. Price’s Special Flavorings. Mam
factured only by
STEELE & ypTblCft
Depots, CHICAGO and ST. LOOTS.
Manufacturers <f J)r. Price's
Baking Ptnsder.
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