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TIIIRTY-SlXTn DAY.
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SSta. February 23.1S73.
Bl(£S PASSED.
Tbe following House bills pa«ed the
£e Sf change the corporate limits of
^rSrtdtbeact incorporating War-
^“ihanse the lino between Mont-
?amery and '^"^Mter'of the Commcr-
Augusta. . o at(J biJU pissed the
The following — C3 ‘
House: Grange Planter’s Bank-
To charter the " °
the act “ir.coxporating the
jlcwhan^and Mechanics’ Savings Bank
° To Morate the Jackson Artillery of
^authorize the Judge of the County
J;, r to ^y the school officers and
,0 To r^uiato the letting out of contrasts
t# £ e 5? t t» b ^ r ®^®^ Uin^er-
<li To regulate the law of do-er. .
-ivmltertbc present mode of disbursing
.« n Qt«it£ school fund.
^To amend the act to (create a Board of
Commissioners f° r Mnscogee county.
uv. ratify the action of the Americas
CounS inhnilding a bridge.
To^ incoperato tho gas company of
^To change the d arter of Columbus.
To change the time of holding the
Tffjcgs court.
The bill to prohibit the payment of
fraudulent bonds passed the House by a
hundred and forty-five yeas to two nays—
the latter being the two negroes—Bacon,
of Liberty and Blue. .
A resolution was introduced in the
Senate by Mr. Cain, authorizing the Gov
ernor to issue now bonds to take the
,dace of bonds bought by Herring and
Branch & Sons, of Augusta, ofjthe Macon
and Brunswick supplemental bonds.
The Senate bill to regulate the com
missions of tax receivers end collectors
was lost.
A VETO.
Governor Smith has vetoed the bill to
take away the civil jurisdiction of the
Mitchell County Court.
TUNIS AGAIN.
The Committee on Privileges and
Elections, at the request of Tunis Camp
bell and counsel, postponed the consider
ation of the contested election case to
next session.
TREASURER JONES WILL STICK.
In addition to a full Associated Press
report of the Treasury irregularities, I
will state that Treasurer Jones has re
solved not to resign. He has many friends
in tho Legislature who will try to pro
tect him from violent measures, having
perfect confidence in his honesty and in
tegrity. The report of the committee
w.i3 hurriedly made, and his friends say
Lo has not had an opportunity to collect
all his vouchers.
The Stato Treasury—TIio Matter Dis
cussed In the House.
THIRTY-SEVENTH DAY.
!■; i.ciul lo Telegraph and Messenger. |
Atlanta, February 21,1875.
The House met this morning, and after
a brief di-'cussion of the reportof the sub-
Fiuauee Committee on the State Treasu
ry, it was made tho special order for 3
o’clock, in order to enable tho members
to read and digest the report before ad
journment. However, three bills were
offered bearing on tho question, one by
Mr. Anderson, of Cobli, to provide for the
election of a Surveyor General, and then
to provide for the’ consolidation of tho
offices of State Treasurer and Surveyor
General.
Also one by Mr. Bacon—a bill to amend
the section of the code so as to provide,
in case of negligence, incompetency or
corruption on the part of the Stato Treas
urer, and when on the address of two-
thirds of both bodies of the Legislature
he is declared ineompent, negligent or
corrupt, it shall bo the duty of the Gov-
trncr to suspend the Treasurer until
proper arrangements can he made for
tho discharge of tho duties of the office.
These bills were read the first time.
At three o’clock the House reis3em-
Lled. The galleries were crowded with
anxious spectators, who remained im
movable until after oark. The House
showed extreme reluctance to commence
the discussion. The Speaker said unless
some action was taken he would proceed
with other business, whereupon Mr. War
ren moved the adoption of the resolution
of the committeo, which recommended
that the Treasurer he requested to resign,
and in tho event that he refuse, that the
Governor he empowered to appoint a
financial agent to assume control of the
treasury. This motion commenced the
discussion.
Mr. Black, member of the snb-Finance
Committee, arose' and stated that the
committee had performed a painful duty,
lie, at least, and probably every mem
ber of the committee, believed Mr. Jones
to be perfectly honest. He remembered
with gratitude his past services and de
votion to tho State, but tho extreme
looseness and negligence with which tho
Treasurer administered the affairs of his
office, made it tho imperative duty of tho
committee to recommend a measure
which would secure the removal, by some
means, of the present incumbent.
Mr. Jones, of Burke, moved that the
Chairman of the Finance Committee be
instructed to prepare articles of impeach-
laoEt.
Mr. Speer said he thought it improper
:o ask him to resign. His assent to such
o request would be construed into an ad
mission of guilt; and moved to refer the
matter to a special committee for further
investigation.
Mr. McKinley thought they ought to
leave the entire matter to the Governor,
who, if satisfied of tho irregularities,
should proceed against the Treasurer in
tha Fulton Superior Court.
f ir. Hardeman wouldn’t discuss the
merits of the case, but said it was their
duty to prolong until tho question was
fully disposed of. The credit of tho
Stato depended on it.
Mr. Anderson, of Cobb, supported the
resolution of the snb-committee, and said
before bo loft the capital tho Treasurer
;hould-bo either condemned or vindicated
by the Legislature, the power which
Cicct-d him and the only power which
could try him.
, *’“• Lawton could not give his assent
tilt of the resolution of the com-
a? 0 "h:;h requested the Treasurer to
Mr. Bacon paid a glowing tributo to
me pa:t services of the Treasurer, but
f a;a c °uid not be denied that he was
unequal to the task of administering the
unties of tie office, and advocated the
, “Produced by him, which authorized
mo Ooverncr to suspend the Treasurer.
.-//•Peeples advocated a bill to con-
’ i m 0 offices of Surveyor General
■•’-'I Treasurer.
- Pue - 1Ior l 3e "2 re cd to the resolution in
fracting tire committee to proceed with
•be investigation until all tho facts are
^itely ascertained, and adjourned.
It is understood that Mr. Jones will not
'■-bs*?- Ho demands impeachment, and
•ys if tho Legislature appoint a finan-
agent ho will not permit him to cn-
ier the office, and this position, it is gen
erally conceded, he can maintain.
From tho present indications the House
uill either adopt Mr. Bacon’s bill, or ro-
solvo on impeachment. They are de
termined to remain hero until tho ques
tion is settled. All tho speakers express
unshaken confidence in tho integrity of
** Ir -dones; but as boldly state that his
inefficiency is too palpable to hazard his
continuation in office. Members are
averse to impeachment, diecauso of tho
e.xpenso and time that will be required to
dispose of tho case in that manner.
Note.—Our reporter seems to have
wholly overlooked the Sonato in his dis
patches. Probably the all-engrossing
subjest about which ho telegraphs us
absve, distracted his attention from the
other branch of the Assembly.—Ed.
The State Agricultural Society.
Special to tho Telegraph and Messenger.]
Thosiasvjlle, Ga., February 24.
The State Agricultural Society met in
convention at the City Hall yesterday.
About 275 delegates were present. Gen.
A. H. Colquitt presides. Tho proceed
ings were very harmonious and interest
ing. The citizens are displaying boun-
tifal hospitality. The society will hold
its next meeting at Dalton.
Washington, February 23.—In the
House the Louisiana special committee
reported resolutions unanimously con-
demning the Returning Board, and by a
majority of four to three, recommending
theLonisiana House of Representatives
to take immediate steps to remedy the in-
justice and to place the persons rightful
ly entitled in their seats; also recom
mending tho recognition of Kellogg os
Governor till tho termination of his term
of office, which was ordered printed.
The Committee on Alabama Affairs,
also made a report
Tho House then proceeded with tho
tariff.
In the Senate the Judiciary Committee
reported that the United States 13 not
bound to proceed with the contract for
additional Pacific mail service to China
and Japan.
Winder’s building, occupied by the
ordnance and engineer's department, was
fired to-day by an incendiary. The build
ing is opposite the navy department,
which has been fired three times. Some
one is crazy, or there is a plot to destroy
the records.—[If crazy, there is much
method in tho madness.—Eds. T. & M.]
Harrisburg, Pa., February 23.—The
Senate, by 24 to 6, instructs Senators and
requests Republicans to favor the pass
age of the Texas Pacific hill.
New York, February 23.—The billiard
match for §2,000 and the championship
of the world was won by Maurice Vign-
eaur, Rudolphe scoring 55C. It wa3 the
three ball game.
Paris, February 23.—On the second
ballot in the Department of Cotes Du
Nord, the Republican candidate had
forty-ono thousand; Legitimists, forty-
six thousand; tho Bonapartist3, thirty-
one thousand. Another ballot is neces
sary.
The floor and galleries of the Assembly
were crowded to-day. The report of the
committee of thirty upon the organization
of tho Senate was read. It rejects tho
American plan, and approved with some
modification the plan of electing tho
Senate by the assembly councils and col
onies. A motion of urgency was carried
by both Centres, and the entire Left,
whereupon Right withdrew. Castellare,
monarchist, mounted the tribune and de
clared the Senate would lead to dissolu
tion and anarchy, and threatened,
if measures were voted imposing upon
McMahon the duty of organzing
tho Republic, the Right would re
sign in a body. Duval, Bonapartist,
moved that the Senate be elected by uni
versal suffrage, which was rejected, the
Bonapartists only voting for it. Wallen,
Bonapartist, moved that the Senate con
sist of 300 members, the department and
colonies electing 225, and the Assembly
seventy-five, which was adopted by 422
to 261. An order making the organiza
tion of the public powers the special or-
order for to-day, was adopted, and the
Assembly then adjourned.
London, February 23.—Fanatics have
destroyed the telegraph line between Loo
Cbow and Amoy, China.
Sir Charles Lyall, the geologist, i3
dead.
Pittsburg, February 23.—Ernest Ort-
mein.who murdered the Hammett)family,
the husband, wife, two daughters and a
boy, and fired the house, was hung to
day. Ortm'/n was a farm hand, and was
treated as one of the family. He was a
German, and had been in this country
two years.
Sr. Louis, February 23.—The Missouri
Legislature bos adopted a concurrent
resolut-'on, deprecating Grant's course re
garding Arkansas, and urging that she
be let alone.
Berlin, February 23.—Minister Davis
gave a dinner in honor of Washington’s
birthday. The first toast was Grant, the
second the Kaiser.
The question about the Gustave, be
tween Germany and Spain, is unsettled.
Atlanta, February 23.—The sub-Fi
nance Committee, appointed to examine
the State Treasury, made an (elaborate
and voluminous report to-day, tho salient
points of which are 03 follows: The 1st
of January last Treasurer Jones reported
cash on hand §1,003,600. Since that
timo ho has collected §1G7,000, making
the total for which ho is responsible $1,-
170.000; for which he is credited a3 fol
lows : §632,000 in the hands of agents in
New York, to pay maturing bonds and
interest coupons, for which not received
at the time Treasurer Jone3 ma le his re
port to tho Legislature; also §170.000
paid out by the Fourth National Bank of
New York, interest and premiums ou
gold; also paid out from the Treasury
direct, on Executive warrants, since the
1st of January $124,000; also cash on
hand §167,000, making §1,102,000, which
leaves a deficit of §6S,000.
To account for this defect, Treasurer
Jones submits informal vouchers for ad
vances mado to tho civil establishment,
the State road, exchange bills. Executive
I warrants signed by Bullock, interest on
temporary loan, I033 by tbe failure of
John King, of Columbus, and counterfeits
amounting to about §64,000, none of
which are in proper form, and which,
upon a superficial examination, the com
mittee do not allow for, thu3 leaving
about $4,000 unaccounted for altogether.
The committee further state that Treas
urer Jones has illegally paid §152,000 old
bonds due January, 1872, tho same being
part of the hond3 said by Bullock to
havo been paid by Clews & Co. Of course
Jones is not charged with this in the
foregoing balance. Jones states in ex
tenuation that he had no notice of the
previous payment.
The committeo concluded by recom
mending that Jonc3 ho requested to
to resign, and in tho event that
ho refuses, that tho Stato appoint a com
petent financial agent to supervise tho
treasury department and ascertain accu
rately the condition of the State finances.
Tho committee don’t attack tbe integrity
of the Treasurer, hut condemn, without
qualification, the system of bookkeeping
and general administration of tho treas
ury department.
The report was ordered printed and
mado tho special order for to-morrow
morning.
It is not known whether Jones will re
sign or not. It is predicted by many
that ho will not. If he refuses, there is
some talk of impeaching him; but the
Legislature will hardly resort to such
violent measures. Ample provision will
bo made by the present Legislature to
cover all deficits and keep the finances of
tho Stato in a healthy condition.
■Washington, February 23.—Mr. G. F.
Hoar, of Massachusetts, chairman of the
special committee on Louisiana affairs,
made a report closing with tho following
resolutions:
Whcreav, Both branches of tho Legis
lature of Louisiana haTO requested the
select committee of tho House to inves
tigate tho circumstances attending tho
election and returns thereof, in that State
for the year 1874; and whereas, said
committeo has unanimously reported that
tho Returning Board of that State, in
canvassing and compiling said returns
and promulgating tho results, wrongfully
applied an erroneous rule of law, by rea
eon whereof persons were awarded in the
House of Representatives seats to which
they were not entitled, and persons en
titled to seats were deprived of them.
Resolved, That it is recommended, to
the House of Representatives in Louisi
ana to take immediate steps to remedy
said injustice, and to place tho persons
rightfully entitled in their scat3.
Reeolvod, That Wm. P. Kellogg he
recognized as the Governor of tho State
of Louisiana until the end of the term of
offico fixed by the Constitution of that
State.
Tho majority and minority reports
were ordered printed.
As the result of a colloquy between
members as to which was the majority
report and which the minority report, it
may be stated that all the members of
the-committee report against the action
of the Returning Board; that Messrs.
Foster, Phelps, Potter and Marshall unite
in a majority report that there was no
general intimidation in tho State, bat a
there wa3 in the States of Missouri or ' Paris, February 23. The Assembly
California; that tho few act3 of violence ' passed the Senate bill, clause by clause,
which had occurred prior to the demand i The election occurs a month before the
made for trsop3 were not proved then, nor dissolution of the Assembly, and com
bos there been any proof since that they 1 mences its functions upon the separation
were instigated from political mo- of the Assembly,
tives; that it was a party no-[ Madrid, February 24.—Pampeluna has
cessity of tho Radicals to crcato a ; been supplied with large quantities of
real or apparent disorder in the State, ! provisions and ammunition.
and that tho uso of bacon donated by | New York, February 24. The Brook-
Congress to tho sufferers by tho overflow . lyn City Court-room was crowded thi3
as a corruption fund; t]ie appointmenti morning when Gen. Tracy ODcned in
of special deputy marshals by the score ! Beecher's defense. All the parties to
in tho counties and districts within the | tho suit were early in their places. Tra-
freo and fair election, which resulted in black belt, if not under instructions from | cy devoted much eloquence on behalf of
favor of the Conservatives, who were de
prived of the result by tho wrongful ac
tion of the Returning Board; that*
Messrs. Hoar, Wheeler and Frye unite in
a minority report, and that Foster as-
scats with Hoar, Wheeler and Frye to a
compromise to recognize Kellogg os Gov
ernor and giving tho majority in the
House to the Conservative delegates.
The majority report in the case af Ala
bama was presented by Mr. Cobum, of
Indiana, chairman of the select commit
tee, and the views of tho minority by
Mr. Buckner, of Missouri. They were
ordered printed.
Mr. Cohum, of Indiana, made an ef
fort to get up what is known as the cau
cus force bill, reported by him last week,
and Mr. Smith, of New York, made an
effort to get up the constitutional amend
ment to regulate the election of Presi
dent and Vice President, hut Mr. Dawes,
of Massachusetts, pressed action on the
tariff bill, and succeeded.
The House at 12 o’clock went into the
Committee of the Whole on tho tariff,
Hale, of Maine, in the chair. All debate
on the bill being limited to one hour, the
House spent the whole day in the Com
mittee of the Whole on the tariff bill,
and among other amendments put on one
for an income tax; but as soon os it wa3
reported back to the House, Mr. Dawes
moved a substitute for the whole bill,
which was passed by yeas 123, nays 113.
The bill, as passed, makes tax on whis
ky hereafter to be manufactured, no tax
ing of stock on hand at all, at ninety cents
a gallon; on tobacco twenty-four cents a
pound; on cigars, six dollars a thousand;
on cigarettes, two dollars and seventy-
five cents a thousand; on molasses, me-
lada and sugar, imported from foreign
countries, an additional of twenty-five
per cent, on the present duties. It re
stores the ten per cent on manufactured
goods, and provides that the increase of
duties shall not apply to goods actually
on shipboard for the United States, on or
before the 10th of February, 1875, or to
goods on deposit in warehouse or public
stores, at the date of the passage of the
act.
Mr. Spencer presented the memorial of
the Republican members of the General
Assembly of Alabama to tho President
and members of Congress, setting forth
First—That changes havee been made
by the Alabama Legislature in tbe penal
code of the State, by which a system of
involuntary servitude and peonage for
African citizens in the South'is to be in
augurated.
Second—That political legislation has
been enacted by means of which 93,000
Republican voters are practically de
prived of representation; that a republi
can constitution is restricted and there
is a practical nullification of the consti
tutional amendment.
They therefore ask Congress to em
power tho President to suspend the writ
of habeas corpus in certain contingencies,
in order to preserve the peace in the
Southern States.
Referred to the Committeo on Privi
leges and Elections. The Postoffice ap
propriation was taken up. An amend
ment to strike out the clause repealing
the Pacific mail subsidies was lost by 52
to 11. Those voting to strike out were
Cameron, Conover, Cragin, Flannagan,
Frelinghuysen, Mitchell, Morton, Patter
son, Pease, Sargent and Sprague. The
bill passed.
The Senate i3 still in session. Tho
army bill has passed. The admission of
Colorado is np. Edmunds stated that a
majority of his party desired this action,
otherwise he would have pressed civil
rights.
There was a full cabinet to-day except
Robeson. The Senate Finance Commit
tee has agreed to a bill authorizing the
Secretary of the Treasury to buy the
Freedman’s Bank building at §300,015.
The Cabinet to-day decided to take no
action at present upon tho proposition
from tho Pacific Railroad Company to
make a sinking fund of their obligations
to tho Government, lest the discussions
in Congress should put to hazard the
regular appropriation bills. There was
no discussion in the Cabinet to-day either
upon Arkansas or Louisiana.
Raleigh, N, C., February 23.—The
Senate to-day parsed to its third reading
a bill adjusting the State debt. It pro
vides for tho funding of the debt as fol
lows : For the old debt and registered
certificate, 40 cents on the dollar; for
funded internal improvements bonds 25
cents on the dollar. It does not include
construction and special tax bonds. The
following interest is to bo paid : For the
first two years, two per cent., for tho next
throe, three per cent., for the next five,
four per cent., for the next two, five per
cent. Notice was given that & supple
mental bill will be introduced which
funds the special tax bonds.
A resolution was passed in the Senate
to change the time of holding the State
elections, to prevent North Carolina from
being a pioneer State.
The House is considering the questionof
of expelling member J. "VY. Thorne, from
Warren county, via Vermont, because of
his non-belief in tho existence of a God.
Jacksontort, Ark., February 23.—The
steamer Cora Belle has been hnrned, with
one hundred and fifty bales of cotton.
Paris, February 23.—Jean Baptisle
Camille Corot, a French painter, is dead.
Bonapartist organs express disappro
bation with Wallon’s amendment in vio
lent articles. The ministers, except
those of Justice and the Interior, voted
for the amendment.
Washington, February 23.—The Con-
the head of tho department of justice, j Beecher, who, he said, took his stand
at least with his assent and connivance, i alone, but supported by his God and the
and the false and unfounded charges of j justice of his character. He alluded to
murder, violence and insecurity of per- { his prominence as a supporter of the
son and property made for tho purpose of j Union at the commencement of tho late
obtaining the introduction of military | war, which, he said, won the admiration
into the State, were part and parcel of the • of tho whole world. One of the most
scheme concocted by Republican Con- 1 striking characteristics of the man was a
gressmen to carry the election in Novem- profound and earnest interest in young
ber last perfoset tiefos.
Tho minority then call attention to
the fact that the investigation was di
verted to many subjects not covered by
tho resolution raising the committee,
such as tho uso of the terms “ carpet
baggers” and “scallawags,” frauds by
either party in the election, the charac
ter of the public schools and whether
they were taught by Democrats or
Republicans, males or females, na
tives or foreigners. Tho dis
tribution of the Government bacon,
the minority think, was within tho scope
of their
men. Thi3 prosecution was tho reward
he received for tha love and devotion he
had lavished upon a young man. Coun
sel related the history of Tilton, and
dwelt, upon his being a deist and de
nouncing tho marriage relations as a
fraud and hindering to tho advancement
of tho world.
Montgomery, February 24.—The Dem
ocratic Senators and Representatives of
the Alabama Legislature to-day, without
exception, signed an emphatic protest
against the memorial presented in the
United States Senate yesterday by Mr.
inquiry; but the majority Spencer. They declare the charges in
thought otherwise, and while proscrip- the memorial to be falso and unfounded,
tion and ostracism, carpct-basgrery and I and ai - -- -- - - '
' - >f a lTko char- ' oral
scalawageiy, and subjects of
actor, were most thoroughly ventilated, a i
full and thorough examination of the '
manner and purpose of the distribution
of the overflowed bacon was not permitted
Enough, however, wa3 picked up, the mi
nority say, during the investigation, to
gether with the report of Secretaryof War
already given to the House, to show con
clusively that this benefaction of the gov
ernment was diverted from the object for
which it was given, and that a large part
of it was used for the same purpose that
the troops of the United States
were asked for to carry the elec
tions by consolidating and massing
tho negro vote for tho Radical ticket.
The minority next direct tho attention to
the marked difference in the condition of
tho adjoining States of Georgia and Ala-
bama—tho one peaceable and prosperous j ported by him yesterday contained re'
and the other depressed, and, according j commendations which were concurred in
to Radical testimony, disturbed. j ty all tho members of the special com-
In regard to Alabama, the minority , mittcc, and immediate action was dcsir-
say: Without quoting their recognized a ble in view of the fact that the Louisi-
and approved organs of public opinion, j ana House of Representatives, which was
cr calling extracts from leading exponents asked to remedy injustice, would adjourn
appeal to tho legislation of tho Gen-
Assembly of Alabama as conclusive
proof of tho falsity of tho charges report
ed to have been made by the Republican
m 0 mbers thereof.
Washington, February 24.—Mr. G. F.
Hoar, of Massachusetts, roso to call up
tho report of the Special Committee on
Louisiana affaire.
Mr. Coburn, of Indiada, raised the
question of consideration, and desired to
have precedence given to tho bill reported
by him, known as tho caucus force bill.
Mr. Poland, of Yermont, claimed that
his report on Arkansas matters should
have precedence.
Mr. Ward, of Illinois, sustained Mr.
Poland’s views, and represented that the
disturbed condition of Arkansas de
manded prompt action by Congress.
Mr. Hoar said that tho resolutions re
of Northern conservative opinion, it is
undeniable that peace and quiet, obe
dience to law and respect for the rights
of all were enjoined upon the Democrats
of the State, not only from considerations
in a few days.
Poland suggested that all these South
ern matters should bo allowed to stand
aside until after the passage of the sun-
dry civil appropriation bill, and that then
applicable to Alabama, but to the entire j they be taken up in the order of their
Demooraticparty of the Union. Tobearand j presentation to the House,
forbear, to snbmitto wrong rather than to Mr. Smith, of New York, claimed that
resort to resistance,was a necessity to their the constitutional amendment reported
own success a3 well as a necessity to the by him for the election of President and
success of their friends elsewhere. Their
experience since tho days of reconstruc
tion had impressed them with the convic
tion that the influence which the whites
have with freedmenas to everything else,
except politics, would never affect the
political action of the colored mass, as
long as that natural influence was neu
tralized and destroyed by the presence
of Federal soldiers. They had reason to
hope, at least, that if all violence grow
ing out of race conflicts could ho avoided,
and the rights of all men were respected,
even the necessities of party would not fill
their State with armed mei, hence peace
in all her borders was a necessity to the
success of the Democratic party; it wa3
less a necessity to the success of the
party in the North; it was dictated by
every consideration of policy, if not of
humanity, justice and obedience to tho
law. Violence and disorder brought Fed
eral troops in their midst, and Federal
troops were standing reminders to tho
negroes that they were sent among
them a3 their friends and their
protectors against tho whites. On
the contrary, the very reverse was the
policy of their opponents—they desired
the influence of tbe military in carrying
the election, and they had reason to fear
that the army wonld not come to their
assistance as long as the Stato was peace
ful, quiet and orderly. Disorder, real or
pro tended, was to them tho one thing need
ful for success; outrage and violenco must
bo manifested, and if it had no real exis
tence their necessity required its manu
facture ; success was hopeless without it,
and with it came the army and victory
at the polls.
New York, February 23.—After tho
conclusion of Mrs. Moulton’s testimony,
Vice President, was tho unfinished busi
ness before the House, and was a meas
ure of tbe highest importance.
Mr. Conger, of Michigan, intimated
that Mr. Poland was the Representative
of the party of “masterly inactivity,”
and that he might have had action.on
Arkansas affairs long ago.
Mr. Poland defended him self from the
imputation, and said lie had only failed
to press the earlier consideration of Ar
kansas affairs in deference to the public
business a3 represented by the chairman
of the Committees of Ways and Means
and Appropriations. As soon as the next
appropriation bill was out of the way he
proposed to proceed with it with-all pos
sible dispatch,
Mr. Negley thought it wa.3 high time
that the House should direct its own
business, instead of leaving it to the
Committees on Ways and Meaii3 and Ap
propriations.
Mr. Ward of Illinois came to the de
fense of Poland and of the Committee on
Arkansas affairs.
Mr. Coburn represented that the debate
on his bill would cover all the questions
raised in tbe reports of the special com
mittee on the Southern States, and be
sides his bill contained something defin
ite and tangible. Finally, after a long
colloquy, the question was put on the mo
tion of Mr. Garfield of Ohio to go into
committee of the whole on tho sundry
civil appropriation bill. The motion was
agreed to by yeas 145, nays 101.
Tho Democrats all voted for the mo
tion and 101 Republicans against it.
The discussion on the civil bill: branched
off into frauds and intimidations, and tho
use of overflowed bacon for political pur
poses in Alabama, ana there was quite a
Tilton’s counsel announced that they had i noisy altercation over it. After tho’com-
rested their case. | mittee rose there was I an exchange of
Washington, February 24.—Tn reply I compliments between Mr. Eldridge, of
to a card published in the "Sew Orleans j Wisconsin, and Mr. Sjpher, of Loiusi-
papers by certain prominent citizexts in arxain^ out ot the report or Mr.
relation to Conservatives in Washington ! Eldridgo s speech a few nights ago. Mr.
stating that Gov. McEnciy had lost the ! Sypher characterized what he complained
----- - 'of as cowardly and contemptible.
confidence of the people of the State of
Louisiana, the Conservative committee
here desire to state that they have at no
time, either directly or indirectly, indi
vidually or collectively, in any manner
expressed any such opinion; but havo
refrained from treating in relation to the
question of 1872, except in so far as com-
polled so to do in the Wheeler proposi
tions, and now declare that had any such
opinion been expressed in their hearing
or within their knowledge they would not
have hesitated to promptly deny and
correct the same as unfounded in truth.
The Senate lia3 up a bill for the admis-
The Senate to day passed bills for the
admission of Colorado and New Mexico,
and then took up Mr. Morton’s bill to
provide and regulate the counting of
votes for President and Vice President,
but adjourned without action.
The Senate amended, in several parti
culars, the Colorado and New Mexico
hills, so that they will have to go back to
tho House for the action of that body.
Tho Treasury will to-morrow com
mence tho payment of tho March inter
est on tho 10-40’s without rebate.
The President has nominated Harvey
sion of Colorado as" a State! [We sin- Jewell, a brother of the Postmaster Gen-
cerely hope it will fail.—Eds.
In the House reports were made from
the Committeo on Elections giving the
seat from Louisiana to Gen. George S.
Sheridan as against Pinchback, and from
Arkansas to Hodge as against Gane, to
bo called up hereafter. An effort was
made to get consideration of tho Louisi
ana report, and of the Arkansas report,
and of the caucus forco bill, but by a fu
gressional committee which went to Ala- «on between the Democrats and tho
bama to investigato the condition of af- moderate Renublicans ^reference was
fairs in that State make two reports. The
majority report is signed by Messrs. Co
burn, Albright and Cannon. They believe
that but for the timely interference of
the Administration in Louisiana a revo
lution would have been precipitated upon
tho people of Alabama. The committeo
further report that members of the Re
publican party were subjected to a series
of indignities and such maltreatment as
bos heretofore been witnessed only in
savago warfare. The principal object or
point, however, of Democracy seemed to
be to crush out tho white leaders, and to
this end a new feature of American poli
tics, viz: Social and business ostracism
was introduced. Tho committee declare
that the Democratic victory in tho State
was won by fraud, violenco, proscription,
intimidation and murder. The law offi
cers were in league with the law break
ers. Tho courts of jwstice were power
less to make arrests, and the Governor
had.no militia to aid unwilling officers.
The committeo say that our only re
gret is, that there were not more United
States-soldiers in the State than there
were for the purposo of aiding in the en
forcement of law. Tho report then treats
of ballot box stuffing nnd burning of bal
lot-boxes, which wa3 indulged in, and
gives a full review of the riots at Mobile,
Eufaula, Spring Hill, Folkland, Gaines
ville and other places.
The opinion is expressed by the com
mittee that had a full, fair and free elec
tion taken place, the entire Republican
State ticket! with a majority of members
of tho General Assembly, and six out of
eight Congressmen would havo been
elected, and they recommend tho pas
sage of tho force bill.
The minority of the Congressional
Committee make a very long report.
They begin by protesting against the in
decent hasto with which the in
vestigation was conducted, but say that
tho evidence taken by the committee es
tablishes that Alabama was as peaceable,
quiet and law-abiding as either Georgia,
Tennessee or Mississippi prior to and
during tho late canvass ;'that there was
no greater necessity for the presence of
United States troops ia Alabama than
moderate Republicans preference was
given to the sundry civil appropriations
bill, and the House went into committee
upon it.
New Orleans, Februaiy 24.—Kellogg
and the Conservative caucus havo dis
patches that Messre. Burke and Leonard,
eral, to be Judge of tho Court of Ala
bama Claims.
Tho House 13 in session to-night, and
the majority have succeeded in getting
up Cobum’s forco bill.
The Senate, in executive session, con
firmed John Cambell to be Third Assist
ant Secretary of State, Benj. G. Shields
to be Collector of Customs at Galveston,
Adam ‘Wolff Surveyor of .Customs at
Nashville, Wm. H. McConnell Receiver
of Public Moneys at Huntsville, Ala.,
Jame3 G. Jones United States Marshal
for the Southern District of Florida.
Washington, February 24.—The House
met to-night, when Mr. Garfield made an
attempt to go into tho Committeo of tho
Whole on the Sundry Civil Appropria-
| tions bill. This was rejected, the Demo-
now at Washington in Conservative in- cra ta all voting ave.
terest, have accepted Wheeler’s proposi- j jjr. Poland then called up the report
tion. The majority of tho present House j on tj, e Arkansas case, which the House
expressed themselves favorably, andKel- | decided to do.
logg is anxious for some adjustment fce^ j Mr. Coburn was making a strong effort
fore Congress adjourns". j g C fc tho caucus forco bill reported by
Governor McEnery protests against the , ] as t we ek. There was a great deal
compromise of the 1S72 election. ' 0 f excited conversation and caucuising
New York, February 24.—Vigneaux j among the members pending tho propo-
beat Rudolphe the second game in 39 sitionT the ultra Radicals expressing a
innings. Rudolphe scored 326.
Boston, February 21.—The House de
feated the amendment giving suffrage to
women by 84 to 125.
London, February 24.—Gladstone has
published a pamphlet Vaticanism reply
to Dr. Newman and Arcbishop Manning,
lie maintains original assertions, eulo
gizes Newman, \vh03e secession ho say3
is the greatest loss to the Church of En
gland since Wesley; acknowledges that
tho loyalty of the mass of Catholics is
unchanged; refutes Manning’s assertion
that the claims of the Roman Church are
not changed by Vatican decrees, and
points to the declarations repudiating tho
doctrines of papal infallibility and tem
poral power, by which tho English and
Irish Catholics obtained full civil liberty.
It is stated that tho Earl of Derby has
accepted from Spain five hundred pounds
for each white and three hundred pounds
for each black man murdered in the Vir
ginia affair.
Havana, February 24.—The Venezuela
revolution ia over. The leaders wore al
lowed to leave tho country.
Wm. J. Sharkey has been arrested on
tho charge of threatening to kill the cap
tain and pnreer of tho Crescent City.
Mexican advices report the Seborneo
volcano in violent eruption. An earth
quake damaged houses and churches at
Quadalnjara, and extended to Sancusta
where several were killed. Tho religious
excitement 13 intense and a protcBtant
hill reader has been assassinated. An
outbreak is spprehended.
willingness rather to havo an extra sos
sion of Congress than to permit tho hills
for the control of tho Southern States to
he brushed aside. The attempt of Mr.
Cobum to get up his force bill was met
by dilatory motions, which are still con
tinued at midnight, with prospects' of a
very late, if not an all night session.
New York, February 24.—District At-,
tomey Phelps says the State Department
has declined to demand the surrender of
the escaped murderer, Sharkey, now in
Havana, as no extradition treaty exists
with Spain; but ho advised Capt. Curtis,
of the steamship Crescent City, whoso
life was threatened by Sharkey, to make
complaint to the Havana authorities, and
the arrest of tho ruffian, which was an
nounced by an Associated Press telegram
from Havana this morning, shows that
the Captain acted on thi3 advice.
Coluhbus, Ohio, Februaiy 24.—The
Stato prohibition convention mado tho
following nominations: For Governor,
Jay Odell, of Cleveland; Lieutenant Gov
ernor, H. A. Thompson, of Franklin; At
torney General, S. S. Adam3, of Cleve
land.
Columbus, Ohio, February 24.—The
House, to-day, passed the hill providing
for corapulsory education.
Paris, February 24.—The Assembly,
to-day, finally passed tho bill for the
organization of tho Senate, by 4 IS to 241.
Bo Nor be discouraged. If you have dyspepsia
or any disease of the hirer, there is a long life of
happiness before you, if you only uso Simmons’
Liver Regulator.
Love Thy Xelslibor as Thyself.
nr A. R. WATSON.
Lore thr neighbor ns thyself—
That is what the Bible teaches;
Lore him with your goods and pelf.
Be he gold, or common delf;
All, that bit of Gospel reaches.
When my neighbor sits to sew
At her window—charming elf—
Though her name 1 do not know.
Yet 1 think I love her so,—
Love hor better than myself.
There I see her every day j
With a feeling very human
Do I look across the way;
Love her all the more, I say.
Since she is a charming woman.
Dainty fingers that might tease—
If perchance they’re kindly bidden—
From tho polished ivoiy keys
All tho choicest symphonies
That beneath are deftly hidden,
Gleam before my watchful eyes;
Ne’er did happy-tlioughted art
Dream out such a sweet surprise;
And tho needle, as it flies.
Seems to prick my very heart.
There I seo her day by day,
Lily-fair and sweet,hut never
Does she look across the way,
Beading what my eyes must say;
So it is to bo forover.
For I often hear a tap
At my pretty neighbor’s door,
Twioe a week, oh, luckless hap,
I must see one lucky chap
Going thither. What a bore I
And this man who comes and goes
Loves my neighbor os himself;
And she—every action shows—
Loves the man who comes and goes ;—
She’s a very charming elf.
They fulfill the law of love,
I the harder love of law;
While thcy’ro billing, like the dove.
“ Covet not,” I say, and move
Backward, and my curtain draw.
Tlie Automaton Card-Player.
From tho London Times.]
The now automaton invented by Mr.
John Neuil Maskelyne, and Mr. John Al
gernon Clarke, which appears twico daily
in Messrs. Maskelyne and Cooke’s enter
tainment at tho Egyptian Hall, Picca
dilly, is not a deception like Baron Kem-
peler’s renowned chess-player/ Neither
is the new automaton of the same class
with Vauconson’s flute-player, which was
exhibited and explained to tho French
Academy of Sciences in 1738. That su
perb piece of mechanism imitated the
movements of the body, the fingers, the
lips, the tongue, and the management of
tho breath of an expert performer on tho
flute. Sir David Brewster has recorded the
fact that “ for many years it continued to
splight and astonish the philosophers and
musicians of Europe; but, like tho bar
rel organ, tho machine executed only
those particular airs which it was ar
ranged to play. Tho marvel of tho now
invention of Mr. Maskelyne and Mr.
Clarke consists in three distinctive fea
tures—tho figure has no living being
within it; it is perfectly isolated from
any connection—mechanical, electrical,
magnetical, cr otherwise conceivable—
with any operator at a distance; and yet
nevertheless, it plays a game of whist
with no little skill, performs arithmetical
calculations, obeys by its movements the
directions of any person in tho audience,
and accomplishes a number of very
surprising feats with cards chosen
and names written by the audi
ence. “ Psycho,” as the automaton has
been named, is a figure in Oriental
costume, sitting cross-legged upon a box
or pedestal, and besides being too small
to contain even a dwarf or mutilated man,
is inspected through openings in the box
and in the body of the figure. Mr. Mas
kelyne, moreover, allows any person from
the audience to ascertain for himself that
no spaces whatever are hidden by mir
rors or any other contrivances. "Psyche”
is just what he appears to he—a piece of
mechanism, with tho wheels, weights,
strings and levers visible, without trick
or concealment. He is first seen upon a
table; but to isolate him from internal
control, he is then placed upon a stand of
thin, transparent glass—this consisting
of one single piece, thoroughly examined
by the audience before being set, clear
away from the back or side scenes, and,
in fact, in the center of the stage. There
is no attachment of any kind, the auto
maton resting loosely on the glass sup
port, and in any position; and persons
from tho audience are allowed to watch
as closely as possible round tho figure
while it is at work, and to re-examine the
interior when they please. Under these
guarantees that " Psycho” is perfectly
self-acting, what is he seen to do ? If
any person gives him a sum to
calculate in addition, subtraction,
multiplication or division, he shows
the answer, one figure at a time,
by opening a little door and sliding the
figure in front of the aperture with a
movement of his left-hand. There is no
pro-arrangement or collusion in this, for
ho proceeds to exhibit any numbers which
anybody may call for. Hq plays a gamp
at whist with any three gentlemen who
may like-to take a hand with him. The
three players seat themselves at a side
table and cut to decide which shall be
“Psycho’s” partner; and, after dealing,
the thirteen cards for the automaton are
placed on a quadrant-holder under the
radial sweep, of tho figure’s right hand,
the cards standing upright, so that ho
can seize any one with his thumb and fin*
ger. “Psycho” turns his head, looks up
or down, apparently studying tho hand
of. cards on his quadrant, and when his
turn comes to play he finds the best card
available to him, raises it, holds it in full
view of the spectators (so tliat’there is
no trickery of substitution), and then
puts it down in front of tho quadrant.
He will hold up any card again and again,
as often as desired by any person in tho
audience, and shakes hands with his part
ner at the conclusion of tho game.
He plays a good game, and, unless
matched against very scientific play
ers, commonly wins when ho hap
pens to get fair average hands dealt
to him and his partner. Then follows a
series of further illustrations of "Psy
cho’s” mysterious power of intelligence.
You help youself to a card out of a pack,
and he tells tho suit and rank and num
ber of spots, by means of strokes on a
bell. You privately mark any card in a
pack, which you shuttle and hold in-your
own hands; and upon the pack being
placed in front of tho automaton, he in
stantly finds tho identical card, and holds
it np, without possibility of substitution
or deception. Again, you shuffle tho
pack, Mr. Maskelyne holds it behind him
in full view of everybody, and “Psycho”
tells the.names of all tho cords in succes
sion, though the conjuror himself has not
seen even the backs of them. Finally,
Mr. Maskelyne informs the audience that
the automaton is constructed to per
form a number of other marvels of me
chanism (not yet finished,) by the aid of
"secret intelligent force.” How long
this "dynamio mystery” may remain un
solved, in an age when the usual re
sources of conjurors are very well under
stood by many people outside of the
profession, it would bo unsafe to predict;
but for complete novelty of tho effects
produced, tbis now automaton outdoes
everything which has"appeared since tho
subtle inventions of Robert Houdin.
Georgia State and Boil tray Bonds and
Stocks in New York.
From tho Financial Chronicle of Satur
day, we got the following quotations, mado
up tho day previous and at tho close of
tho market: Geeorgia Cs, hid 85 ; 7s, new
bonds, bid 83; 7s, endorsed, 87; 7s, gold
bonds, 821; Atlanta 7s, bid 70, asked 73;
Atlanta Ss, bid 77, asked 82; Augusta
7s, bid 83, asked 85; Macon - 7s, bid 63,
asked 74; Savannah 7s, old, bid 82, asked
85; new, ditto; Georgia Central first
mottgage 7s, bid 100, asked 102; consol
idated 7s, bid SC, asked S3; stock, bid 60,
asked G4; Georgia railway 7s, bid 85,
asked 90; stock, bid 70, asked 80; Ma
con and Brunswick endorsed 7s, bid 70,
asked SO.
. ...... ■ ^
A man named Muybridge, who had
killed the seducer of hiswife.has just been
tried and acquitted in San Francisco.
The jury scorned to take advantage of
the plea of “emotional insanity,” but
boldly aaquitted the prisoner, on the
ground that he served the seducer right.
Left with the Baby.
Mrs. Graham came over tho other night
and wanted to know if I wouldn’t take
care of her year-old baby for about fif
teen minutes, and let her and Mrs. Quad
go down town to got a pair of shoes for a
poor old woman. She added that the
little darling was sound asleep, and
wouldn’t even wink while they were gone,
aud I consented. She brought him in
and laid him on the sofa, snugly tucked
him up, kissed him fourteen times, and
then they were gone.
I sat writing, and by and by I forgot
all about the ohild. The. women had
been gone about seven minutes and a
half, when all of a sudden the baby yelled
out:
“Hi whoo-koop.boo-wlioop!” and he
kicked his little blanket sky-high and
sat up and looked at me.
“ Well, my son, the drowsy god has
flown away, eh ?’* I inquired as I ap
proached him.
Ho opened his eyes very wide, discov
ered that I wasn’t his father or mother,
and he shrank away and yelled out:
“ Ki-yi-whoop-whoa-hi l”
I went in and found the sugar bowl and
selected a fat lump, but he stuck up his
nose in disgust at the sight of it, and
howled until a chromo of the "Washing
ton family was jarred down. I took
down the looking-glass 'and held it so
that he could see himself. He held up
for a moment, amazed at the sight of such
a face, and then ho gave the glass a kick
and started off on a louder key. I heard
pedestrians stopping under tho window
to listen, and I scrubbed around and got
hold of a basin and a stove-handle.
The pounding stopped hi3 howling for
about thirty seconds, but then tho novel
ty wore off, and ho threw himself hack
and screamed until ho was as red as an
Indiana fanning-mill. Tho crowd under
tho window increased, and I heard a vil
lain say:
“Some one ought to go for tho police!
That old tyrant of a Quad is murdering
hi3 child!”
I got a piece of bread and butter from
tho pantry, and tho boy took it, held It
under his nose for an instant and then
threw it and hit me ou tho knee, and
howled until I expected ho wonld burst
a blood-vessel. I got down a picture
book and tried to make him look at Wil
liam Penn preaching to the Indians un
der a tree on tho site of Philadelphia, but
he took one glance and then kicked me on
the chin and yelled:
“Boo-hoo-ooh; hi-yi-ki!”
“Young man,” I replied, as I bent over
him and pointed my finger at his nose,
“is there anything in this honse you
want ? What will you take to shut up ?
How much to call it square ?”
He seemed to feel insulted, and he
howled until I could see away down his
throat. I attempted to pick him up, hut
ho wriggled away and fell on his head on
the floor. I heard something snap, and
secretly hoped that his vertebram was
broken, and that he was done for; but
after a moment ho recovered conscious
ness, and bit at the sofa like a mad dog.
“It is our duty to go in there and tom
ahawk the old wretch!” yelled one of the
crowd under the window, and I got out
some sugar and a stocking and made a
bu >ar-teat for the young scoundrel. He
took it, held it up and gazed at it, and
then flung it at the stove. I handed him
apples, fried cakes, prune sauce, raisin
cake and pickled peaches, bu£ nothing
wouid stop lii3 howling. He kicked in
the crystal of my watch, tore my neck tie
off, pulled my hair, and finally, when tho
women had been gone two hours, I deter
mined to kill the .imp. I brought in the
butcher knife, ax, revolver and' hammer
and placed them before him, and asked
him to take his choice. He wouldn’t stop
hi3 dreary howling, and I had my coat
off and the ax raised over him when his
mother came in. She doesn’t know to
thi3 day but that. I got those things in
there a3 playthings to amuse her young
villain; but he knows it, and §50,000
in cash wouldn’t hire him to look into my
back yard through tho alley fence.—JIf.
Quad in Fireside Companion.
A youthfui/thespiax.
Painful Result of Raving a Father
arlio will Noe Appreciate Shakes
peare.
From the Detroit Free Press.)
A few days ago, young Gurley, whose
father lives on Croghan street, organized
a theatrical company and purchased the
dime novel play "of “Hamlet.” The com
pany consisted of three boya and a
hostler, and Mr. Gurley’s hired girl wa3
to bo tho Ghost if tho troupo could
guarantee her fifty cents per night.
Young Gurley suddenly bloomed, out
as a professional, and when his mother
asked him to bring in some wood, he
replied:
“Though I am penniless .thou const
not degrade me!"
“ You trot out after that wood or I’ll
have your father trounce you!” she ex
claimed.
“ The tyrant who lays his hand upon
mo shall die!” replied the boy,hut ho
got the wood.
He was out on the step when a man
came along and asked him where Lafay
ette street was. . - •
" Doomed for a" certain time to roam
the earth!” replied Gurley in a hoarse
voice, and holding hi3 right arm out
straight... -.if
“ I say—you! ■ Where is Lafayette
street ?” called tho man:
“Ah! Could the dead but speak—ah!"’
continued Gurley.
The than drove him into the house, and
his mother sent him to the grocery after
potatoes. •
“I go, most noble duchess,” he said as
he took dp the basket, “but .my good
sword shall some day avenge‘these in
sults !”
Ho knew that the grocer favored theat
ricals, and when ho got there he said:
“Art thon provided with a store of that
vegetable known as tho ’tater, most ex
cellent duke ?”
‘Whatm the thunder do you want?”
growled the grocer as ho cleaned the
cheese knifo on a piece of paper.
“l'hy plebian mind is dull of compre
hension !” answered Gurley. ,
“Don’t try to get off any of your non-
sense on me, or I’ll crack your empty
pate in a minute,” roared the grocer, and
“Hamlet” had to come down from hia
high horse and ask for a peck of potatoes.
“What made you so long?” asked hi3
mother, as ho returned.
“ Thy grave shall bo dug in the cy
press glade !” he haughtily answered.
When his father came homo at noon
Mrs. Gurley told him that she believed
the boy wa3 going crazy, and related
what had occurred.
“ I seo what ails him,” mused the fa
ther ; “ this explains why ho hang3
around Johnson’s barn so much.”
At tho dinner table young Gurley spoke'
of his father 03 tho “ illustrious count,”
and when his mother asked him if he
would havo some butter gravy he an
swered:
-" The appetite of a warrior cannot bo
satisfied with such nonsense.”
When tho meal was over tho father
went out to his favorite shade tree, cut a
sprout, and the toy was asked to step
out into tho woodshed and see if the
penstock was frozen up. Ho found the
old man there, and ho said:
" Why, most noble lord, I had sup
posed thee far away!”
"I’m not so far away hut what I’m
going to make you skip l” growled tho
father. *T11 teach you to fool around
with ten cent tragedies ! Come up here !”*
For about five minutes tbe woodshed
was full of dancing feet, flying arms and
moving bodies, and then the old man took
a re3t and inquired:
“ There, your highness, dost want any
more ?”
“Oh! no, dad—not a darned bit!”
wailed tho young manager, and while the
father started for down town he went in
and sorrowfully informed the hired girl
that he must cancel her engagement until
the fall season.
The waters of the Gcmnlgee, turbid
and swollen, arose and kissed the edg\es
of their banks yesterday, and late in the
afternoon were still rising, with some
prospect of overflowing their banks.
An Episode,
And so the hour comes at list
When all the dream is over.
The distant, possion-baunted past.
The n pture of tho lover 1 .
I coaid not tell that I would ehanvo
That fair and fragrant fancy.
And jet, ah, me 1 who coqpU it strange
That time should kill the pansy ?
Our love was but a summer fto’wer,
A thing of rings and posies s
A frail, sweet bud that bloomed an hour.
Then died—like other roves.
I dreamed I ne’er had seen a face
So exquisitely tender,
Ar.d all my life to your dear grace
Bent down in frank surrender.
And now wliat need of vows and sighs,
And passionate pretenses.
To us who are so sadly wiso
In lordship of the senses 'i
It was—it Is not—let it pass—
Though thero has gone forever
The image from the magic glass.
The ripple from the river:
Yonr life shall flow above this shock
In truer, steadier fashion,
"With just that quiver o'er ihe/ock
That marks a buried passion-,
And.lf I sometimes look behind.
It will not be in sorrow.
For to the heart tbe heart is kind—
Love's Bden blooms to-morrow !
Barton Grst.
A FTJNNY YOUNG MAX.
Ills Curious Performances "When It
Is Asleep.
From tho Troy Press.]
There resides ia this city one of tho
most remarkable somnopathists we have
ever heard of. He ia a clerk in a River
street store, and is a young man of ex
cellent parts and abilities. Since childhood
he has performed some strange feats
while in his peculiar sleep.
On several occasions during the pres
ent winter he has arisen in his sleep and
taken down tho stores in his kitchen and
parlor. While his wife has watched him
he ha3 carefully removed the stoves, both
of them are of good weight, to a store
room. Having finished this work ho re
turns to bed, and in tho morning has not
the sligatcst recollection of his feat. On
very rare occasions after he has taken
down the stove and returned to bed he
will get up again nnd put the stoves back
in their places. Men who have to put up
and take down stoves periodically may
envy our somnambulist’s absence of con
sciousness whilo"performing these ordi
narily disagrceablo feats." It is a com
mon occurence for him to get out of bed
and throw the coal scuttle out of the win
dow. Several times ho has arisen and,
seating himself by the cradle, from which
his wife hns been prudent enough to re
move the baby, ha3 rocked it with force
sufficient to give the best-stomached in
fant in tho world an acute colic. One
night he clambered to" the roof of his
dwelling and hurled the scuttle over to the
sidewalk. It narrowly missed a police
man’s head. Nor is it uncommon for our
hero to got up at midnight, dress himself
and go up to the store to attend to busi
ness. One of his freaks is to kindle afire
in the kitchen stove, set tho table, pre
pare a meal and eat it. He sots the table
with tbe neatness of a. thorough house
wife, but when ho gets tho wrong plate,
or picks up the sugar by mistake for the
salt, he dashes it to the floor.
Sunday morning at two o’clock our
friend got out of bed, dressed himself,
took from the cradle tho pillow which his
wife places therein when she removes the
baby, carried it tenderly to the front
stoo*p, laid it down, got the baby-carriage,
picked up the pillow, placed it carefully
in tho carriage, and gave it half an hour’s
ride. At this time the thermometer in
dicated ten degrees below zero.
The somnambulist was seen by tbo po
liceman on the beat, who, being acquaint
ed with his freaks, did not disturb him,
but kept his eye upon him. Tuesday
night the somnambulist arose in bed and
clutching his wife’s threat, and placing
his knee on her breast, shouted, “I’ll ent
your heart out.” This was a now expe
rience for the lady, and came near being
a serious one. At the outset, so tight
was the grip on her throatshe wo3 unable
to scream for help.
At length, by tha use of all her
strength she managed to loosen the grip
so that she could scream for help. In a
few minutes, a crowd was gathered
around the house. The screams con
tinued, and tho people supposing that a
murder was being committed, forced
their way into the couple’s apartments.
Among them was tho young man’s em
ployer who touched tho somnambulist
with the point of a pin. Thb awakened
him, and after explanation, tho outsiders
retired, and the couple, again went back
to their slumbers, which were not again
interrupted. The young man is terribly
chagrined at his act, and is so sensitive
on tho matter, that jve refrain from giv
ing his name. He is well known among
our younger people and i3 highly re
spected. He believes that his somnam
bulism is caused by a? accumulation of
the blood in the neighborhood of tha
nerves in the legs and arms, and says
that whenever he is in that stato a pinch
or tho pricking of a pin, which starts the
blood through its proper channels, will
awaken him.
The Nashville Fanner says a hegiracf
ne^oes has set in from that Stato for
Kansas and Mississippi, and adds:
About five hundredblaeks,coming from
Giles, Maury and Rutherford counties,
passed through hero via tho Northwest
ern road Friday) for Kansas. It is said
that hundreds more will follow them, bat
will divide, sorno going to Mississippi
and others to Kansas.
Two colored ministers from Rutherford
county were in the city yesterday. They
stated that not less than 2,000 negroes in
that county were contemplating a de
parture for the "West and South.
Foor Mississippi. But as Kansas dotes
on tho ebony, we congratulate her. "We
wouldn’t mind if half oar surplus was
settled withiJ her borders to help the
“jay-hawkers” fight the grasshoppers
next summer.
Full Measure.
While Dr. Price’s True Flavoring Ex
tracts are full measure, other extracts are
short nearly one-half what they are said
to contain, arranged to look large to de
ceive the consumer. The mo3t of the so-
called two ounce flavoring extracts hold
but one and one-quarter ounces, tho four
ounce less than threo ounces, while 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
others purporting to bo the same sixe,
and tho extracts are of the strongest and
most natural flavor.
HORSE STOLEN.
CJTOLEN from my place in Newton county,
ia ONE MEDIUM-SIZED GUAY HORSE,
with girt mark ou lett side. His gait it a pacing
walk. I will give a liberal reward lor his recov
ery. Address,
feb23.il2t&wU*
E. J. HORTON.
Covington. Ga.
/ lUOBGIA. MACON" COUNTY.—Whereat,
(JT Geo. W. Forehand and Jas. A. Ferry, Admin
istrators ot Solomon Forehand, deceased, has ap
plied for letters of dismission from said trust.
Theso are, therefore, to cite all persons cen-
c Tnod. to bo and appear at tho Court of Ordinary
of said county on the first Monday in June next,
to show cause, if any they havo, why said lei tors
should not ho granted. _ , , ,
Given under my hand and ofilcial signature,
this the 21th day of Fohruarv, 1S75.
fcb23-Sci Ordinary.
TTeOKGIA. MACON COUNTY.—WlrerWs.
U" Charity li. Fuiwood lias appliedfor letters ot
Guardianship of tho persons and nroperty of
Thomas W. Fnlwood and Maty A. L\ Fuiwood.
minor children of William Fuiwood, latoof said
county, deceased.
These ore, therefore, to cite all persons con
cerned to be and appear at tho Court of Ordinary
of said county on tho first Monday in Apnl next;
to show cause, if nny, why said letters should at*
he granted the applicant. .
Given under my hand and olficial signature,
this 21th day of February. WA
JOHN M. GREER,
fobil-SOd Ordinary.,
G eorgia, maion counit.—Where*.
Geo. V. Hunter. Administrator of Josepfcme
E. Fokes, late of said county, deceased, has ap
plied for letters of dismission from said trust.
These are. therefore, to cite ai". persons con
cerned to bo nnd appear at"the Court of Ordinary
of said county on the first Monday in June nest,
to show cause, if any. why said letters should
not be granted. „ . , .
Given under my hand and ofilcial eiputoro
thia the 24th day ot February, 18T3.
JOHN M. GREER,
febJS-fm Ordinary: