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MACON, APRIL 18. 1876.
Boston goes in for Hancock and Adams
as the great Centennial Ticket, on a
Tea Party Platform.
At a recent town moetiog in Skowhe-
gin Hon. BJdnb Tarbcx was uasnimous-
ly nominated for the Prcsideney on a
high moral platform.
A young man and a young womao,
members of “families socially high” in
Troy, names suppressed, rode to the
near-by villago of Cohoes, drank inordi
nately of wine, started for home intoxi
cated, fell oat of tbeir carriage, and were
found by the police lying insensible in
the road.
Consistency.—Our contemporary, the
Thomas ton Herald, discovers some glar
ing inconsistency in our position to
leave the task of eoleeting a candidate
for Congress to the district convention,
while we avow if the selection wero with
us we should probably renominate
Blount, and our position for Governor,
in which wo take the satno ground, but
naturally prefer our distinguished fellow
citizen Hardeman. Now wo think both
positions are about a3 two peas
A Washington dispatch says the Illi
nois Democrats in Congress have entered
upon a very active canvass for Justice
David Davis, of the United States Su
preme Court, as Democratic Presidential
candidate. Sir. Morrison and Mr.
Springer are especially free in express
ing themselves for Justice Davis. Both
claim that he could carry Illinois against
any Bepnblican candidate. James Rob
inson, er-member, is cntbnsiaslic enough
to say that Justice D ivis could obtain
SO,000 majority in Illinois. Sfimuel
Marshall, of Illinois, an ox-member, has
also pronounced for Davis.
Change.—Tho Journal of Commerce
calling for a change of political leaders,
says: “If the Democrats will tako ad
vantage of this opportunity to offer to the
choice of the people such an administra
tion as will promise not only tho simple
turning of a leaf in the nation’s history,
but a new and more creditable record on
the virgin page, they will have, as they
deserve, the mo3t unqualified success.
Only then may we hope for a respite
from these mortifying disclosures and a
restoration of honest and orderly govern
ment.” The truo solution is a return to
the Constitution and Union as they were.
Tariff and Politics.—The Ohio Re
publican State Convention defined Re
publicanism to mean among ether things
“a tariff for revenue, with incidental
protection to American industry." The
Pennsylvania Republican State Conven
tion announced on the same day that the
attempt of the Democrats to inflict a
revenue tariff upon tho people is an in
sult to their intelligence, and that if any
change is made it should be in the di
rection of more protection, rather than
of less—"the remedy for our suffering is
in a higher, not a low.r tariff.” It is
hardly worth while for Republican or
gans to distress themselves over the
doctrinal divisions of tho Democratic
party
NOTES.
The lato Judge Eite, of Cincinnati,
left an Esto-ate valued at $2,000,000.
Thebe sets of triplets in Georgia since
the - first of January. By Gemini, that
beats twins.
“Db. Mast Walkeb does not believe
in knee breeches for the Centennial.”
Why not ? Bran is cheap.
“Several of Mr. Lorillard’s horses
lately sold at from $100 to $230.” That’s
snuff for them, wasn’t it?
James Parton says “the trouble in
Washington is too much silk,” "and,” he
might have added, “ Satan.”
The Baltimorean asks: “ Can gam
bling be called a card-inal sin ?” There
is always more or less knave-ry in it.
The trance of public satisfaction is
broken by the announcement that Home,
the English spiritualist, is not spiritual
ized.
Emerson says: “ Man docs not natu
rally lie;” and yet tho existence of the
editor of the Washington Chronicle proves
that Emerson docs, at least once.
“ Old sojourner Truth is now on the
ragged age.” says the Washington Chrcn•
icie. That’s so. Tho Radicals about
Washington liavo worn him to tatters.
The Czar is expected in London to
day. It’s Czar-dly possible he will como
to tho Centennial, though tho Philadel
phians mus’ covite him very ardently.
Db. Robert Arches and wife, of Rich
mond, Va., celebrated their diamond
wedding last week. "Insatiate Archer,”
lie appears bent upon exhausting tho
whole quiver of conjugal anriversaries
before becoming unstrung.
A New Mormon sclieme.
A Salt Lake correspondent of the New
York Sun aay3 tho Mormons aro secretly
arranging for a general exodus to Now
Mexico. Under tho active agency of one
Axtell, a former Governor of Utah op-
pointed by Grant, and subsequently
transferred to New Mexico, they aro ex
tinguishing Spanish and Mexican grants
to an immense body of land, and have
enlisted on army of friendly co-operators
in Washington, who will bo paid out of
tbo property abandoned in Utah, and will
toe are the passage of tho bill for the ad
mission of New Mexico as & State; which
accomplished they hope, by the cxclnsion
of all settlers except Mormons, to estab
lish thomselvcs where they cannot be
again molested by tho Federal powers.
The Cause of tho Hard Times.
Charleston News and Courier.]
Daring the month of March $3,301,009
in greenbacks wero deposited with tbo
Treasurer by banks desiring to withdraw
their circulation and realize upon their
bonds. This is tbo largest contraction of
tho currency which hs3 ever occurred
during a single month nndcr the provis
ions of the Bank Act of Juno 20, 1874.
Treasurer New is understood to estimate
that the contraction of tho currency un
der the BankiDg Act of Jane 20,1874,
daring the remaining nine months of the
present calendar, will be $100,000,000,
In other words, whilo the nominal volume
of the bank note circulation is $352,000,-
000, It will bo reduced by January, 1877,
to $252,000,000. Tho estimate of tho
Comptroller of the Currency, Mr. Kaor,
is understood to bo somewhat smaller,
The Way to Talk*
Tho little knot of negro politicians
which assembled in Nashville to air them
selves last week, consummated their la
bors by renewing adhesion to the Radical
party and a vote cf confidence in Morton
as their man for tho Presidency. Ling-
ston, who was tho Mentor of tho concern,
gad:
I would as soon vole for Satan against
God Almighty . as with tho Damocratio
party. [Applause.] Don’t ask mo to vote
for it till it repents. I am freo to voto
for it if I chooso. I am freo to support
Satan against God; bnt, as a Christian
man, do yon ask to a to array myself on
the sido of tho devil? [Applause.]
Langston, wo suppose, might bo con
sidered a competent witness as to tho
general feeling among tho negro politi
cians against tho Democratic party, dnd
it is certainly highly honorable to that
party to bo denounced in this way. It
shows that tho Democracy have kept oloan
hands on this subject, end have not de
graded their manhood by pandering to
this vicious, depraved and bastard ele
ment of politics, forced on tho country
by tho Radicals. Let tho Radicals have
all their votes. They mado thorn and or®
entitled to tho product of their own usur
pation and villainy. The shattered wreck
of character, reputation and honor they
have left to freo repnblioan government
in Amorioa can bo saved and repaired
only by esebowing tho whole concern and
appealing to tho honesty and intelligence
of tho American people. It is degrading
to any Democrat to banker after African
votes.
Gov. Smith’s Withdrawal.
Wo publish in another column tho cor
respondence between our able Governor
and a committee of Co!umbu3 gentle
men, in which the announcement is for
mally made, that ha will not permit his
name ** to bo presented to the approach
ing gubernatorial convention for re-nomi-
nation.”
Wo have always known that Gov.
Smith was not desirous of serving another
term, having heard him so express him
self. Ho has enjoyed all tho honors and
dignities the position can bestow, and as
an office of profit or cmolnment, thanks
to tho niggardly spirit of onr law-makers,
no possible economy ccnld make both
cnd3 of (ho executive household meat,
unaided by private funds. We can name
several ootton oleiks in Savannah, and
dry goods drammers who are better paid.
Governor Smith was in tho enjoyment
of a lucrative practiea at tho bar when
called to tho head of tho State Govern
ment, and his worst enemy will not
charge him with peculation of any kind.
It is duo to candor also to say, that in
the opinion of very many of car most
astute observers, his prospects for a re
nomination wore good.
The Governor’s letter is pointed and
manly, and all must subscribe to tbo
truth of tho parallel which ho draws bo-
tween tho present condition of the credit,
and finances of the commonwealth, and
what they were at his assession to cffice
in 1S72.
Fitted lor tlio Position.
Since Dana’s rejection a3 Sihenck’s
sue lessor at the Court of St. Jar- 03 by
the Senate, the poet Longfellow is eager
ly pressed upon the President as an un
objectionable man for tho position. The
controlling idea seems to bo merely to
get a man of personal honor and integ
rity and courteous manners. Beyond
these qualifications not a suggestion is
dropped that any others of a special
character are demanded for tho high
duties and responsibilities of tho Ameri
can representative at the British govern
ment. But Mr. Longfellow, though a
distinguished poet—a fine scholar and
an accomplished gentleman, may be, and
is, wholly unversed in the diplomatic
relations of the two governments and in
political life and history in general, as
well as mentally UDfit for the career of
a diplomatist. Is material so scarce in
the Northern States that it is impossible
to combine general and special qualifica
tions for this post in tho same person ?
National Woman Suffrage As
sociation.
This delectable organization of blase
old maids, spiteful widows and blue
stocking feminines, who aro tired of
tbeir sex, and wish to don pants, practise
law, and ride, smoke* and vote like men,
have sent us an invitation to attend their
9th annual convention in New York on
the 10th and Uth oE-Mny, 1876. Tho
circular is signed by Matilda Joalyn
Gjge, President, and SusanB. Anthony,
Chairman Executive Committee. These
Amazons intend to make a terrible on
elan ght upon all that wear beards per
haps for tho obvious reason that they
cannot ensnare, hoodwink or capture
by any means, whatsoever, a siBglo one
of these hirsute masculines.
For tho mo3t part these unhappy
.misses and mesdames came from wretch
ed New England, where a largo moiety
of the women are left out in the cold
without husbands, and are therefore in
consolab’.e, cross and belligerent- These
creatures, jealous of their more fortunate
sisters who aro blessed with manly and
devoted lovers and husbands, aro at
tempting an insane crusade upon man
kind generally, for tbo purpose of de
stroying tho marriage relation and inaug
urating freo lovo and woman’s rights,
which, interpreted aright, mean the de
struction of everything lovely and sacred
in tho gontlo sex, dragging them down
from tbo lofty position they occupy to a
communistic level, where naught but
chaos and crime and lewdnes? can exist.
Gol has assigned to woman her truo
sphere and mission, and none but tho
marplots and travesties upon their sex
would change it. Tho gentlo wife clings
to her husband as the ivy to the oak,
and is never so happy and strong os
whoa clasped to his sturdy breast. Ma
tilda Gage and Sasan Anthony may
mount tbeir bloomer pants and ravo and
rant till doomsday, without weaning
her away for a single instant from the path
of womanly rectitude and duty, which
tbo Lord cf Heaven in tbo inspired oracles
has so plainly indicated. Wo mu3t de
cline to print their ridiculous twaddle,
and couldn’t bo hired to attend that me
nagerie of disgruntled females, who, like
wandering stars, have flown far away
from their natural orbits.
The President’s Candidate.—Gen.
Grant, in an interview with Haralson, a
negro Congressman from Alabama,
strongly urged tho negroes to support
Conkling for President. Morton was well
enough in his opinion, bnt Conkling’s
the man—not Morton. Haralson, how
ever, gavo Grant no reason to believe
that tho African snffrago could be trans-
thongh in lits opinion it will reach $50,- j ferred from Morton to Conkling. Morton
000,000 or $C0,030,000. J is their man decidedly.
COSTLY CATTELL.
The "Christian Gentleman’’ who
gives Bribes to the Tone or SISO,.
OOO, and Asks tYhltthorne tor n
Certificate of Character.
Washington Special to tho Chicago Times.]
Tho most important evidence that has
been taken in 8ny one day was brought
out last Wednesday before Whitthome’a
Committee on Naval Affairs. William
Matthews, a contractor for furnishing
clothing and naval supplies to tho Navy
Department, brought his books with him
and eubmitted to a rigid examination con
cerning his method of securing oontreots.
He testified that some years ago he was
a bidder before tho Navy Department for
contracts in bis line of goods, when E.
G. Cattell, of the firm cf Cattell & Robin-
sod, came to bim and told him that
ho had no show for securing any
awards as tho Cattells intended to bid
against bim. He knew tho great influonoe
tbo Cattell3 had with Robeson, and so he
at once bogan to beg for terms. Cattell
said he would givo way if ho would turn
over to him fivo per cent, upon his gross
receipts from contracts. His books as
examined showed that upon roceipt of
$28,000,009 Matthews had paid over
$140,000 to the Oattell3 for thus Eeou-
ring the contract from Robo3on. His
acoonnt also showed a payment of $10,000
to the Cattells for tho procurement of tho
payment of a rejected claim of $30,000.
Tho entire amount developed by to-day’s
testimony as paid to tho Cattells was
$150,000. More, it 13 said, can bo shown.
At the close of Matthews’ testimony he
turned solemnly toward tho committee
and said to Ohaitman Whitthorno: “Sir,
I am a Christian; a member of tho Pres
byterian Church. Now, I want to know
if there hi3 been anything developed be
fore tho committee in my testimony that
is any ways derogatory to my character
as a Christian gentleman?” A broad
grin chased over 6very conntenanoa. at
this query. It was too serious a question
to bo answered withont consideration.
Chairman Whitthorno dryly informed
Matthews that ho should bo informed
upon tho subject at an early day.
A Royal Yegetable — Asparagus in
History*
This delicious esculent which is the
first gift of spring after winter’s long
reign, and is so universally popular,
ought to bo on every man’s table who
owns even a fow rod3 of garden space,
Once rooted and properly cared for,
tbo work is done, with ths exception of
annual manuring.
Tho fecundity is very great also, and
cut them as often as you may, every day
see3 peefing forth a fresh crop of tender
spires which, when cooked, resemble
mirrow in delicacy of flavor.
These remarks aro elicited by observ
ing that for weeks past the private market
of Mr. S. T. Walker has been well supplied
with tempting bunches of this vegetable
from tho garden of Mr. Gustin, who, in
deed, has been using it for two months,
and exports largo quantities. Tho fol
lowing historical sketch of this ancient
and much esteemed plant we find in the
Philadelphia Bulletin .-
At present prices it may bo said that
bore in Philadelphia asparagus is in
every one’s moutn, as much so as the
Centennial, and more so than the third
term, cr the financial question, or tho
coal strike, or the clamor of unreformed
reformers. Why, then, should it not
receive a little attention from tho news
paper press, during tho short season
when it graces the dinner table? A
learned writer of France, Dr. Noirot, has
thus honored it lately in a Parisian jour
nal, and it is always proper to follow the
Paris fashions.
It may not bo generally known that
asparagus was a dainty especially prized
by tho ancient Greeks, and it is not im
possible that it may have been grown on
Olympus and been served at the banquets
of the gods, with ambrosia sauce. It is
supposed that the Muses on Helicon had
beds of asparagus which they watered
from Aganippe and Hippoereno. But
this is only conjectural. It is certain
that the Greek .philosophers and heroes
fed on asparagus, and Epicurus was par
ticularly fond of it. Tho Athenians cul
tivated it as devoutly a3 they did the
arts and letters.
Among tho ancient Romans, with
whom tho art of cooking was something
almost as sacred os a priesthood, aspara
gus was a precious vegetable, and Api-
cius taught how to cook it in his famous
cookery books. Julius Cmsar loved it,
and wo may mention that Napoleon I
and Napoleon III resembled him in
having tbo same lovo for it. Perhaps
President Grant’s Cceiarism has also this
characteristic. It is quite certain that
tho plant is a favorite at the White
House table. To return to ancient
Rome. Pliny speaks of asparagus'in his
writings as a very choice dish. It was
much liked by Heliognbalus, tho cruel
monster, but good liver, among whoso
telebrated events in life wa3 the inven-
cion of a famous pio made of peacocks’
brains, and pheasants’ tongues. When
Lentulus was consecrated a priest of
Mara, Lucius Cecilius Metellu3 gavo a
banquet, tho bill of faro of which has
been preserved in history. Among the
guests were tho Vestal Virgins, and
among tho choice viands asparagus figur
ed most honorably. In tno museum of
utensils unearthed in Pompeii i3 a knife
that was used for cutting asparagus
plants, which is a model for such knives
to this day. The mode of eating the
cooked vegetable was that of the present
time; with tho fingers, which preceded
forks in Roman table furniture. Juvenal
celebrates the succulent plant in his
wiitings, and Cato the Censor preferred
it to cabbage, in the cultivation of which
ho was a devotee.
To como down to more recent times,
William the Silent used to open his
mouth with alacrity before a dish of as
paragus. HU descendant. King William
III, of England, brought to that country
the Dutch methpd of cutting and eating
it, and ho taught it to Dean Swift, who
of course imparted it to Stella and Van
essa, and so it became the fashion among
all except Jacobites. If any reader
doubts this statement about William and
Swift, wo refer him to Macaulay’s His-
tory, vol. XL psgo 383. William was
not tho only modern monarch whose love
for asparagus became historical. Louis
XIV, of Franco, fairly doted on it, and
his favorite, Madame de Pompadour, in
vented a mode of cooking and serving it
that still figures on tho menus of Franco
a3 **Asperges a la Pompadour,” and is re
garded as tho most precious legacy tho
lady ;left to her country. French me
moirs mention that Fontenelle, who lived
nearly a century, in hU old age retained
hU relish for asparagus. Ho liked it
served with oil, while his friend Cardinal
Dubois liked it with sauce. Ono day
when the Cardinal was coming to dino
with him, ho ordered ono half of the as
paragus to bo served in oil and the other
half in sauce. Just beforo the dinner
hour news came of tho sadden death of
tho Cardinal. Instantly Fontenelle called
out loudly to his cook: “AH tho asparagus
in oil!” Tho incident and the phrase
live in history.
As for tho qualities of asparagus, every
one knows how good it is. Bat in past
times it was regarded as a medicament,
and it was prescribed for many maladies.
Bat let each reader ask his physician
about that. It is acknowledge.!, how
ever, to be excellent for affections of tho
heart; bnt whether sentimental or mor
bid affections, wo prefer not to express
an opinion, beyond saying that the sight
or tho fragranco of a steaming dish of it
is sure to touch the heart. Having now
shown how asparagus figures in classical
and in modern history, wo trust our
readers will respect it all the more,
whether it bo tbo rich white "Jersey
Grass,” or tho tender green “Pennsyl
vania Grass,” from tho Philadelphia
1 markets.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Editorial Correspondence.
Washington City, April 5, 1876.
seobetabt bbistow’s
growing popnlarity among the best ele
ments of the Radical party—if such a
term bo not a misnomer—is gall and
wormwood to tho robbers and ruffians of
that organization, and they are opening
tho batteries of insolent warning and
still moro offensive lecturing upon him.
Tho Republican, of this city, of course
takes the lead in the congenial work, and
yesterday double leaded an article on
this lino to the extent of nearly a column.
It was a specimen piece of Impudent bul
lying, and was rendered more offensive
by the reminder to Bristow that as he was
a Southerner he should bo extremely
careful bow bo behaved himself. In order
to be allowed to stay in tbo party. Of
ccnrso Bristow can afford to treat such
vermin as the oditor of tho Republican
and his confreres with tho profonndest
contempt, bnt ihsir uttorances, neverthe
less, show the innate and inextinguish
able distrust and malico entertained by
the Jacobins towards any Southern mem
ber of tbeir party who will not consent
to entirely infamize himself. The truth
is that Bristow is muoh too decent a man
for his associates, and the knowledge
thereof galls them sorely.
ECHEXCK.
I squeezed myself into tho committee
room cf Foreign Affairs tho other day to
get a look at and hear what the great
North American poker player bad to say
for himself in conneotion with the Emma
mine business. I saw a “chunky,” heav
ily bnilt man about five feet eight, or
thereabouts, with a bull-dog face and
neck, light hair, beard and moustache,
closely clipped, with a frosty (ouch on
the chin. His head is square and dogged
looking, with full cheeks and chops, thin
lips, end shortish nose, small eyes, pale
blue as to odlor—so they seemed to me—
and with a blinky 'expression of inde'
scribable canning, as if watching an op
ponent whose hand he feared might prove
too strong for his. What ho told the
committee yon already know, bnt my im
pression was that he knew a deal more
than ho over intended to tell them or any
body else. I don’t think bo has done
himself any good by his explanation. Tho
whole business was eminently shady, es
pecially for a man in his position and
such, I think, i3 the general verdioi.
BATHER DRAMATIC.
The second cot in tho impeaobmect
drama was played yesterday in tho Sen
ate, tbo chief actors therein being the
seven managers recently elected by the
Homo who at ono thirty p. m. marched
over to tbo Senate and wore announced
by tho Sergeant-at-Arms of that body.
The President pro fern, ordered them to bo
conducted to seats inside the bar, and Mr.
Lord, their chairman, said:
Mr. President. The President pro tern.
Messrs, managers. Mr. Lord. Tho man
agers are ready to exhibit tho articles of
impeachment against W. W. Belknap,
lato Secretary of War. Tho President
pro tern. Tho Sergeant-at-Arms will make
proclamation. Tho Sergeant-at-Arm?.
Hear ye.' Hear ye! Hear ye! All persons
aro commanded to keep silcnco on pain
of fine and imprisonment while the House
of Representatives is exhibiting to the
Senate of the United States articles of im
peachment against W. W. Belknap, lato
Secretary of War of tho United States.
The managers then rase from their seats.
Mr. Lord. Tho managers will cow ex
hibit the articles of impeachment by the
House of Representatives in tho namo of
themselves and all tho people of the Uni-
ted States against W. W. Belknap, late
Seoratary of War, for high crimes and
misdemeanors while in office. Mr. Lord
then, standing, read tho articles cf im
peachment, tho other managers resum
ing their seats. Tfio reading of the
articles occupied about fifteen minutes.
Tho President pro tem. The Chair will
inform the managers that the Senate will
tako proper order on the subject of the
impeachment of W. W. Belknap, lato Sic-
retary of War, of which duo notice Rhall
be given to theHou3ecf Representatives.
The managers then retired and the Sen*
ate resumed its business.
Altogether it was, to me, at least, quite
dramatic and suggestive. Tho galleries,
however, were not crowded, as I expected,
and the behavior of some of tho Radical
Senators was simply disgusting. They
pretended to bo engrossed in reading the
Congressional Record, and ignored tho
proceedings with insolent and studied
contempt." Of course turkeyoock Conk
ling was foremoRt in this gang, and I am
moro persuaded than ever that nothing
bnt a sound thrashing will ever teach him
decent manners. Of all tho hatefully,
disagreeable and insolently ill mannered
creatures I ever saw, bo certainly Lears
the palm. A Graphic artiet was present
and took a picture of the ecene.
ANOTHER MODEL GRANTITB.
It turns out, now, according to Distriot
Attorney Dyer, of St Louis, who was
before tho "Whisky Frauds Committee
day beforo yesterday, that there was a
spy and a traitor on tho Grand Jury
whioh found tho indictment against Bab-
oock. He told the committee that tho
proceedings against Babeook wero so
promptly and minutely betrayed to tho
defendant, and tho prosecution so
thwarted and embarrassed at every step,
that at one time ho suspected and dis
trusted almost every official in this city.
Ho afterwards learned that tho traitor
was one Fox, a member of tbo Grand
Jury, and chairman of th8 Radioal State
Central Committee of Missouri. Fox
was one of the only two members of the
Grand Jury who voted against findiDg the
indictment, and when tho jury had been
discharged he hastened hero and either
gavo away or sold the secrets of the
jury room. As his son was very shortly
afterwards appointed to a oonsnlship, the
inference is that he sold thorn. I saw
Fox while he was here, sat near him at
dinner one day, in fact, and oan well im
agine him guilty of this or almost any
other treachery. He is well named, judg
ing from nothing else than his shifty eyo
and crafty glance.
HOW A “mSOSTER” FEEDS IN JAIL
Hallett Kilbourne, tho ringator who re
fused (0 answer certain questions asked
him by a Honso committee, and was jailed
therefor, tarns out to he a man with one
of tho hugest, as well as daintiest appe
tites of modern times. Ho lies been
shut up nineteen days, and in that time
has disposed of 35,540 cents worth of
food, not 0 aunt ing wine, of whioh he has
pnt away, with the help of sympathizing
friends, $127 worth. His meals have
been famished by the House caterer, and
as a sample of the bill of fare, and its
cost, I append that of Maroh 23d:
Sirloin stesk, -St; potatoes, 40 cents;
breakfast bacon, 30 cents; eggs, 30 oents;
coffee, 50 cents; shad, $1; cold turkey,
$1; cold tongue, 50 cents; tenderloin
steak, $2; Philadelphia fquaba, $1 50;
eggs, 20 cents; cream 50 conts; water
cresses, 25 cents; chicken naiad, $1 50;
boiled apples, 40 cents; ice, 50 conts; ap
ples, 30 cents; potatoes, 30 oents. This
for breakfast and lunch alone. Added to
this is dinner, as follows: Mock turtle
soap, 75 cents; stewed terrapin, $2 50;
potato salad, 40 cants; lottnce ealad, 50
contf; roast beef, $1; oyster patties, 75
cents; asparagus, $1 50; French green
peas, SI; stewed peaches* Si; spring
chicken, St 50; cream, 25 cents; char-
lotto rnsse, $1 50; mutton chop, 50
cents—$25 40.
“They say" Speaker Kerr s-nt for Ser-
geant-at-Arms Thompson after reading
this nineteen days’ bill, and went for him
in a way that was neither child like nor
bland. Of course Kilbonrno will nevor
WBg his tongue so long as he is “punish
ed” for contempt after this fashion.
THE CONNECTICUT ELECTION
has evidently not been heard from by tho
Radicals in and out of OoDgress in this
city. I see and hear quite a number of
them talk every day, and not a man gives
any evidence of knowing that such an
election bss taken place. They were,
however, very voluble on the subject up
to Monday nlgbt, when the wires began
to talk. Then they dried np. Alter their
oavortings, and howls, and whoops over
New Hampshire it is positively delightfni
to see them so piously sober and silent.
Gonneotiont will give the same, or a bet
ter aoeount of herself In November, and
when Jewell goes out with Grant next
Maroh he will be emphatically onl of a
job, with the dreariest prospects of find
ing another very soon. Selah!
THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND
dollars In silver ooin reaohed here yester
day from San Francisco, $200,000 of it
being in dimes and $100,000 in quarters.
An additional $100,000 will arrive to
morrow, whioh will complete the present
order for $500,000. The weighing of
this mass of jolly shiners is going on to
day at the Treasury Department, and it
will then be stored in the vaults, whose
capacity is only for that amount.
PERSONAL.
Senator Lamar returned to this city
last night looking remarkably well and is,
I am pleased to hear from him, quite re
stored to health. Apropos of his Missis
sippi election as Senator, the following
committee was yesterday appointed un
der Morton’s resolution of investigation:
Bontwell, Osmeron of 'Wisconsin, Ogles
by, Radicals; and Bayard and MoDonald,
Demcorats.
Gens. Toombs and Lawton and Attor
ney General Hammond have been here
several days on business in the Supreme
Court. Gen. L appears for the railroads
in the tax oases, and Messrs. Toombs and
Hammond for the State. Gen. Lawton
is also in the Garabed cotton case, bo well
known in Georgia. Mr. Hill is also of
counsel in this case.
A soeoimen day, this, after the late
floods of rain. The sun is evidently doing
his prettiest, and the sky is as clearly
blue as if newly painted. Above all the
air has a softness and balminess that
breathes of Spring flowers, green peas
and fried chioken.
Georgia is down in the commerce bill
for $40,000 for certain North Georgia
rivers, secured by Mr. Felton for that
seotion; $25,000 for the Ocmnlgee river,
secured by Mr. Blonnt; and $5,000 for
harbor at Savannah, secured by Mr.
Hartridge. There is also $5,000 for
surveying a canal route from St. Marys
to tho Atlantio.
Dana was dropped upon very heavily
yesterday by the Senate on the voto to
confirm him as Minister to England.
One statement is that he only received
17 votes against 33, with 24 absentees.
Another puts the adverse majority at
thirteen. B.
THB GEORGIA PRESS.
A G0D-SEND FOR MEMPHIS-
The Value of the Cut-Off at Devil’s
Elbow.
Memphis Avalanche.]
As tho effects of tho groat “ ent-eff ” of
the Devil’s Elbow develop themselves,
its value to Memphis and tho snrronud
leg country becomes moro and more ap
parent, and what was looked upon a few
days ago as merely a vagary of the great
father of waters, now tmn3 ont to bo a
geological event of the first magnilnde,
reclaiming many thousand acres of land
hitherto considered as irreclaimable ex
cept under a most thorough system of
Ieve6h)g. A well-informed friend, who
has made the matter a study, tells ns thst
it will add a hundred thousand dollars
woith of taxable property to tbo land list
of Mississippi county alono this year.
Golden lake. Swan lake, Yonng lake, and
a host of minor eheets of water, which
hitherto wero filled up by tho annual over
flows of tho river, will ‘ now be drained
completely, and their beds become the
pasturage of thousands of cattle. Be
tween Shawnee village and Frenohmen’s
bayou, whero last August there was from
three to five feet of backwater,
is now almost dry, and can bo
traversed anywhere on foot or on horse
back. Tho only drawback to tho general
rejoicing among land-owners in the dis
triot drained by the ent-off, is the fact
that the bend will no longer bo ran by
the great majority cf the packets whioh
heretofore made it a vast highway, as ac
cessible to Memphis as any of the towns
on any of tho railroads leading thither.
Hcccoforth those liviDg on it will be
compelled to depend upon the local or
coast packets for communication with the
outside world—a deprivation which only
those who have been left for moflhs at a
time to the tender mercies of “coasters ”
oan appreciate. Of the effect of the
ohango in the velocity of the current,
and in the direotion of tho impact of the
vast mass of water flowing through the
ohute upon our landing here, no one can
prophesy. The longer one lives upon the
banka of tbo Mississippi the Ies3 he
knows about its laws (so-called,) and the
moro inoliced ho is to sny, like old Oapt.
Gbarlio Bowen, of O3oeola. that “ it does
as it d—d pleases.” If old Solomon had
known anything abont it, he would have
added it to the list of those things whioh
are past finding ont. At any rate, wheth
er it helps our landing or not, it will add
an immense deal of high, dry land to the
area of soil tributary to onr city.
Snow a Hundred Feet Deep.
From tho Denver (Col.) News, April 2.]
A gentleman who recently came over
from the Paoiflo slopo relates soma inter-
esting incidents of tho trip over the two
great ranges of mountains. All along
the Saoramento Valley everything was
smiling. Tho cattle wero luxuriating in
tbo grass knee high, and tho plains were
decked with flswers. At 3 o’clock p. m.
tho train turned eastward to ascend tho
S orra Nevada Mountains, snd by 10
o’olcck reached Bine Cmon, frem which
to Tinckeo the snow was from four to
twelve feet deep, and in the gulches if
was in some places 100 feet deep. Those
who havo kept snow gauges on tho Neva
da report a fall of 389 inches of snow dar
ing tho winter. Immense snow-plows,
oporated by lcoomotives and hundreds of
Chinese, had opened the-roads over the
Nevadas, and tho ?rain was on time until
it reaohed the town of Wells, on tho Hum
boldt Mountains. Thore they overtook
the trains which had left San Francisco
for tho four dayo previously. Tho road
from Well3 to Toano (thirty-six miles)
was still blockaded, no trains having
psssod over that section for fonr days.
The enow was any depth from fonr to fit'-
teen feet. As the wind was still blowing,
to open the track with shovels was as
futile as dipping tho ocean dry with a
spoon. Seventeen looomotivo3 were as-
sembled at tiro western end of the block
ade, eight of which wero pnt behind an
immense snow plow. The five passenger
trains wero massed into three, and thus
arranged a charge was made on the ob
struction. As each power was hard to
resist, in three hours the enow plow was
pushed through to Toano, and tho’ cara
van of trains reaohed Ogden only throe
hoars behind time. Bat the successful
trial demonstrates that trains oan be
pushed through any blockade over likely
to impede any rand. The ohange coming
down the mountains was as great ns going
up them In the villey of Balt Lake,
farmers were plowing, and the atmos
phere mild. Starting out again in a few
hours, tho deep snow3 were encountered
on the Wasatch range, so deep that at
somo of the villages the comb of the roofs
of come of the houses conld only be seen,
tmt thero was no obstruction; yet the
cars crowding along between snow banka
es high as the roofs was interesting to tbo
passengers.
Beidginq the British Channel —If
the projected tunnel under the channel
between England and France proves im
practicable, M. Vernard de Saint-Anne,
of the French Academy, still holds cut
the hope of a dry-shod railroad between
tho two countries. He shows, from the
accepted hydrographical charts, the exist
ence of a series of sand banks between
Gravelines and Ramsgate, over which tho
water iB only ten feet deep. With a lit-
tie ooaxing by engineers he thinks tho
natural foroea that havo raised these
banks would socn lift them cut of the
water, affording a dry roadway, and leav
ing only a few gaps—the largest only a
mile wide—to be bridged.
The Griffin News says “all men are
not villains.” True; but sometimes it
is mighty hard to tell who ore and who
are not.
The Columbus Enquirer of Sunday con
tinues its emigration statistics. It says:
This week only 45 emigrants have been
sent West. The total movement from
this section, of a radius of fifty miles, is
5,464—4,874 by Western railroad of Ala
bama, and 600 along the line of the Mo
bile and Girard railroad. Not 300 of this
large number were whites.
The same paper says: Some fellow has
written to the North that week before
last two negroes were killed in Colum
bus, and that over a dozen wero taken
from tbeir houses and severely whipped,
four of them having sealing wax dropped
tqxm their bodies. This we find in sev
eral of our Northern exchanges. The
press agent has already denounced it
as a falsehood. The statement regarding
our city i3 an infernal lie. Why, a
darkey ha3 not been killed in this section
by the whites since the river was dug,
unless wo except one that swallowed a
pistol ball five yews ago.
The Madison Home Journal announces
tho sudden death of Mrs. Sallio P.
Graves.
S. H. Dtk is Mayor of Madison.
Two negroes broke from tho Darien
jail on the 7th.
Some Jackson county log rollers caught
a blue crane a fow days ago five and a
half feet high and six feet from tip to
tip of his wings.
The residence of W. J. Humphreys, of
Rockdale county, wa3 burned last week,
Db. Wm. H. White, of Atlanta, was
the recipient of a large ebony gold head
ed walking cane, as a present from the
Board of Trade of Chicago.
The Atlanta Times says: “ Silver is
becoming quite plentiful—that is, in cer-
tain quarters.”
It would be very welcome down here
in “quarters,” of half or any other de
nomination.
We mentioned, a day or two ago, the
arrest upon a requisition from New York
of Andrew J. West, of tho firm of West,
Edwards & Co., of Atlanta, on a charge
of larceny after trust. Deputy Sheriff
Tallman, of New • York, and Deputy
Sheriff Anderson, of Atlanta, started with
their prisoner to New York, and imme'
diately upon their arrival in Augusta,
West was arrested by the Sheriff of Rich,
mond county, on a charge of larceny after
trust, preferred in obedienco to tele
graphic instructions from Atlanta. On
this ho was held over until Saturday
morning, when West wa3 released by tho
Sheriff of Richmond county, and turned
over to Deputy Sheriffs Anderson and
Tallman. Beforo tho train left, however,
on which they were to proceed on their
journey, Deputy Sheriff Anderson re.
ceived orders from Sheriff Perkerson to
return with.hi3 prisoner to Atlanta im
mediately.
The Times, of Sunday, adds s The tol
lowing special telegram from Augusta
explains the case there:
Augusta, Ga , April 8,1876.
Judge Snead, of the City Court, this,
morning dismissed the warrant on which
West was detained, and gavo him over
to Deputy Sheriff Anderson and Tallman.
Before the train left a dispatch came
from Sheriff Perkerson for Anderson to
return with West to Atlanta, that the
writ of habeas corpus served on Ander
son in Atlanta, and which he pocketed,
was decided to bo valid. The entire
party will return to Atlanta to-night.
West is still in custody of Deputy Sheriff
Anderson. W. H. M.
Tallman will return with them, and
they will reach Atlanta this morning at
six o’clock. Yesterday tho Grand Jury
found true bills against Andrew J. West,
Shelton Edwards and Benjamin W. Bris
coe, comprising ths firm of West, Ed-
wards & Co., ehargingeach of them, sep
arately, with obtaining goods under false
pretenses.
The Constitution, of Sunday, says
Loss night Foster Blodgett came down
upon tho State road train in company
with A. L. Harris, who stopped here.
Blodgett skipped into tho Augusta sleep
er and the porter of the car tried to re
fuse other parties admission thereto, but
without avail. Blodgett was recognized
by several gentlemen and tho polico
poked around uncertain what to do about
the matter. Several parties urged them
.to go in and capture the great adventur
er. After the departure of tho train,
Sheriff Perkerson was notified of the
passage of Blodgett, and he sent a tele-
gram to the chief of polico at Augusta
ordering tho detention of Blodgett until
tho arrival of an officer from Atlanta.
Blodgett has thus tried a bold experi
ment and may find it » costly ono. He
is under indictments in this county and
is badly wanted.
The "faithful," in Atlanta, are not
unanimous. Tho Timeoot Sunday, says r
For some time District Attorney Farrow
and Jesse W. Jackson have been at dag
gers’ points with each other, and several
communications havo been published in
the different papers from both parties.
A few days ago H. P. Fhrrow published a
card in one of tho city dailies, in which
he was pretty rough on Jackson, calling
him an infamous scoundrel, blackguard,
eto., which it appears ha3 worked upon
tho risibilities of tho said Jackson, who
has just seen fit to take umbrage at this
“highly complimen^iry” language of the
District Attorney. Yesterday Jackson
went before tho Grand Jury and pre
ferred charges against Farrow, charging
him with libel. Upon which indictment
the Grand Jury found a true' bill, and a
bench warrant wa3 issued. Last evening
tho warrant was pnt in the hands of an
officer to bo served, but up to lass ac
counts Farrow wa3 still missing.
The Augusta papers of last Tuesday
reached U3 all safe yesterday. They do
not appear to have become very decrepit,
notwithstanding their age.
The Savannah News, of yesterday, ha3
tho following: Mr. Charles F. Mills,
ono of our oldest and most respectable
citizens, died at his residence on Liberty
street yesterday morning at 4 o’clock
after a brief illness, brought on by a
; laralytie stroke. Abont two weeks since
Mr. Mills, with tho view of improving
hia health, started for Now Orleans, bnt
on reaching Macon the fatigue of travel
occasioned a paralytic stroke, which ne
cessitated a speedy return home, and
since then he has been confined to his
room. Tho paralysis centering in his
head, induced a serious illness, and sev
eral days sinco all hope3 of his recovery
wero abandoned, and tho announcement
of his death at a ripe old age, whilst it
will occasion regret in tho community
wherein he moved as an honored and
useful citizen, will not bt> received with
surprise.
The Rome Commercial, of Sunday says:
“On and after the first day of May, every
one who has no visible means of support
will bo arrested os a vagrant.” That is
true Trojan talk, provided it is not all
talk.
A meeting of the Democrats of Mon
roe county, held last week, recommended
Hon. G. "W. Adams a3 one of the dele
gates from the Fifth district to the nation
al convention. No man would represent
.tho distriot better.
Monroe county bridges wero damaged
by the lato frcBhet to tho amount of about
$2,000.
Col. Tom. Hardeman will speak in
Lumpkin on the 25th.
GOYBRHOR SMITH.
He Declines to Allow His Name to
so before the convention for Re*
nomination.
From the Columbus Enquirer.]
Columbus, Ga., March 13, 1876.
Hon. James if. Smith, Atlanta, Ga.:
Dear Sib: The undersigned, your for
mer neighbors, and still your friends,
have, with great surprise and indignation,
read the unwarranted assaults upon yon
and your administration, and through
your administration upon the Demooratio
party of Georgia, by correspondents
through the pnblio press, the most nota
ble of whioh appeared in a recent issue of
the New York Herald, and through enoh
means have obtained a wide circulation in
the States of the Union, oaloulatedto
prejudice, not only the high standing of
our State, bat the good name ol the
Demooratio party of Georgia.
We do not know from whom these at
tacks have proceeded, whether from the
holders of discredited bonds, partisans or
personal enemies. We believe, however,
that they do both yon and the party whioh
placed yon in power gross injustice, and
plaoe yon in a position where tho good
name of the State, the welfare of the par
ty which placed yon in office, as well as
your own dignity, require that the truth
or falsity of these assaults shall be brought
for decision before the people of Georgia.
And to that end we very respectfully urge
upon you the great propriety of meeting
these assaults by again permitting your
name to be plaoed before the people of
Georgia as a candidate for renomination
to the office of Governor by the Demo
oratio party of Georgia.
Should you consent to do so, we feel
assured that yon will bo sustained by a
majority at least equal to that given you
at the last election.
We are, very respectfully, your friends
and fellow-citizens,
(Signed) R. H. Chilton,
W. L. Salisbury,
John H. Martin,
W. J. Watt,
PkTER PaEER,
E. C. Hood.
• THE REPLY OF THE GOVERNOR.
Atlanta, Ga., April 7,1876.
Messrs. S. H. Chilton, W. L. Salisbury,
John H. Martin, W. J. Watt, Peter Preer
and E. C. Hoed, Columbus, Ga.:
My Dear Sirs—I have the honor to ac
knowledge the receipt of your favor of
the 13th ult., asking me to allow my name
to be presented to the people for re-nomi
nation for the cffice of Governor of
Georgia. The gravity cf the question
thus presented will, I trust, be acoepted
as a sufficient reason for any delay in re
plying to yonr esteemed oommnnioation.
it is known to yon, gentlemen, a3 well
as to other friends in different parts of
tho State, that I have not desired a re-
eleotion to the office I now hold. So far
as my own personal feelings are con
cerned, I have made no secret of my in
tention to retire at the expiration of my
present term. If, far a little while paBt,
I have appeared to occupy a different
position from that originally taken and
frequently announced, it was in conse-
qnencs of assaults made on my adminis
tration and, indirectly through me, upon
the Legislature and the Damocratio party
in the State.
It is not necessary to disensa tho mo
tives which inspired these attacks, further
than to say that they were of such a char
acter as, in my judgment, mads it proper
for me to suspend my first intention, and
hold myself in a position to answer any
demand which the party might thick fit
to lay upon me. It is now manifest, how-
over, that any injury resulting from these
assaults has fallen alone upon those whose
interests they were designed to snbrerve
—whether the assailants be, a3 yon sup
pose, “tho holders cf discredited bonds,
partisans or personal enemies.”
This consideration leaves ms free to re
turn to my original purpose and desiro,
and to decline, as I now do with great re.
6pect, to hive my name presented to the
approaching gubernatorial convention for
re-nomination.
I cannot conclude this communication
without returning my thank3 to you for
the flittering terms in whioh you are
pleased to express your friendly regards
for me. I desire, also, to make my grate
ful ackowlcdgments to tho people of
Georgia for the unmerited honor they
have conferred upon me, and for the gen
erous support they have accorded my ef
forts to administer the grerft trust con
fided to my hands. When wo recall the
chaotio state in which we found every de
partment of the government in 1872, and
contrast it with our present peaceful and
happy condition, 3 feel that we all have
cause for congratulation. Oar public
debt hes been ascertained, and tho inter
est on it is now regularly paid, while our
bonds are, to-day, rated far above par in
tho great centers of trade. Our educa
tional system has been established on a
solid foundation; onr varied resources aro
being rapidly and systematically devel
oped, and onr judiciary, for integrity
and ability, is second to none in the
tiro Union.
I can only wish that tho prosperous ca
reer upon which wo havo entered may
suffer no check, and that both in our
Stato and Federal relations we may enjoy
for many generations to ooaso the bless
ings of pcaoe and liberty.
I am, gentlemen, your friend and obe
dient servant, James M. Smith
SECRETARY TAFT.
An Alleged Account of His First In
terview with the President.
Fat Contributor in Saturday Night.]
Although one of the- best lawyers in
tho country, Jadgo Taft doesn’t know
anything about war, he never fired off a
two-horse lumber wagon. Bat he is de
termined to learn. Tae other day Grant
dropped in at the war office and found
his new Secretary deep among official
documents.
1“ Posting yourself up, Alphonso ?”
said the President, with an encouraging
smile.
“Yes,” said the judge eagerly, “I
want to know everything pertaining to the
business. I have been running over the
disbursements of the Department for the
last year, to see what was expended for
catapult8.”
“For cata—what?" said tho President,
pausing, as be was about to strike a
match on his boot to light a fresh cigar.
“Catapults. Yon havo them in tho
army, haven’t yon?” said the judge, in
rather an uncertain tone of voioe.
The President smiled a little, and said
they did havo a few left over from the
war, but he belisvsd they had all been
used up. Then the secretary said he
should certainly order some more made,
for ho considered the catapult one of the
most effective weapons in modern war
fare. “They did great execution at the
siege cf Jerusalem, os I remembor read
ing,” mused the eeoretary, “and it is
doubtful whether Tiborids would have
been able to have reduced the city without
them.”
Grant looked at his new secretary
through tho oigar smoke a few moments,
and then told him if he ordered any cata
pults he had better have them “rifled,”
with an adjustable, muzzle-loading bayo
net, and tbo secretary m’.de a memoran
dum to that effect.
“ I see that considerable money has
been spent in experimenting with tor
pedoes,” continued tho secretary, looking
over the disbursements. “That seems
to be a waste of money, and it encourages
a bad habit among children. Serious ac
cidents have frequently resulted from
little boys throwing torpedoes under
horses’ feet on the Fourth of Jnly, and it
ought to bs stopped.”
Tho President allowed that the torpedo
wasa’t a thing to fool with, and the S.-o-
retary read on. (Suddenly ho jumped
to his feet, while the hot, indignant
blood flished to his very temples as he
exclaimed : “No wonder tho country is
impoverished, and the tax-payer groaning
beneath his burden. Here, while trade
languishes and the" wheels of industry are
clogged all over the land, my predecessor
has been shipping luxurious delicaoies to
the garrison of our forts, thinly oonoealed
under the term ‘shell.’ What does shell
mean? Shell oysters, of course 1 That’s
what It meats Bat they don’t get any
shell while I am Secretary. I’ll settle
that.”
“That’s right,” said the President
they get any oysters make ‘them shell
* j 0r . tteiu themselvesand then hi
added, in an aside to himself,
would have to if they bought them
one of Belknap’s post-traders ” m of
“Yes,” continued tho Secretary, “loot
at the quantity of grape on hand, cW s
among ‘munitions of war.’ What dm.
grape mean, and what is it for ?” 63
/‘It is to wash down the shell oyster*
Wlth * LSW"*" Qrant * with a
didSt hlS 6J0 Which tho W*
“That’s it, exactly,” cried the iud»„
‘‘Keeping the eoldiers on wine 'and 0 L
ters, while thousands of people are wan
dering around in a hopeless search for i
free lunch. I tell you, ’Lyssis, this
scandalous 1” ■
The President, as he arose to go, eaid
he was glad he had a Secretary of War
at length, who was determined to font
into things and reform abuses, and. cm.
honing him not to forget to have tho«
catapults rifled, he returned to tho Whita
House with a broader grin on his
than anybody had ever seen thero before!
MURDERED ON HIS KNEES
An Awfnl Domestic Tragedy In Ohio
Columbus (O.) special to the Cincinnati Tunes]
This morning, at ten o’clock, the nolica
in the North-end were ataSd
aoreams of a woman, ana, starting to.
ward the point from whioh the noise
oame, were met by a woman wild with
agony, who said her husband had shot'
and dangerously wounded her eon. Up 0a
arriving at the woman’s house, the mur
dered boy was found lying cn the floor in
a pool of blood, with a great wound in
his side, and his father lying by his side
kissing the face of his viotim and wildly
oalling on him not to die. The boy was
found to be quite dead, but the father
would not believe it, and, with bis eldest
son, fought against being removed from
the scene of blood.
On leaving tbe house the man appeared
to be quite drunk, but before reaching
the Etation-hoffse was quite sober. The
name of the murderer is Patrick Picker
ing, a laborer, who ba3 a wifo and six
children.
The mother of the viotim i3 too wild
with grief to tell an intelligent story
about the deed, but as near as can be
learned, it appears that; Pickering had
been drinking liquor daring the day, and
went home intoxioated. Recently, his
son, aged seventeen, next to his oldest,
had offended him by keeping company
with an objeotionable boy. Upon reach
ing homo he oalled his boy ont of bed to
apologize for his misconduct. Hts father
forced him to' get upon Ins knees to pray
and promise never to go with tha objec.
tionable boy again. As soon as he had got
upon his knees his father took up a heav
ily loaded shot gnu, and without any
warning to the poor hoy, whose head waa
bowed in prayer, fired at him, the charge
passing through his heart, killing him al
most instantly. Just beforo closing hla
eyes in death the boy cried out, “Father,
yon have killed me 1”
As soon as he reached tho station-house
Pickering became wild with remorse,
wildly crying: “I’m a murderer. Iam
going to commit suicide. Poor boy, poor
boy I I wish I was where he is now.”
All night the prisoner paced his cell, mad
with remorse, but ho was. carefully
watohed to prevent his committing sui
cide.
Pickering is about forty years old.
The dead boy is said to have been of-good
character.
Indians Rising In St- Angasline—A
riot Discovered — Cheyennes in
Irons.
Last Tuesday we were informed by a
passenger upon the Dictator, who haa
just come down tho river to Jacksonville,
of a plot which was discovered among
the Indians stationed at Fort Marion, in
that city, by which a general uprising
and slaughter of tho white inhabitants
wa3 prevented. Several of tbo Indians
who had been confined were to be re
leased, and then, after overpowering the
single soldier who remains in the fort at
night, they were to sally forth and mis-
sacre the inhabitants, and, if possible,
tho soldiers who stay at night hi the
fcari-arke, a mile distant. Fortunately,
tho plot was betrayed to Captain Pratt
by one of the Kiowas, and the murderous
design frustrated in time. Poisoned ar
rows were tho weapons to be used, with
the addition of what guns could bo ob
tained.
The alarm is said to have caused many
of tho visitors in St. Augastine to make
active preparations for leaving.
Since writing the above we learn from
Mr. Plump, the agent of the Now York
Steamship line, that tho Cheyennes plot
ted to murder Capt. Pratt, tho sergeant
in tho fort, and another white man, and
then escape into- the city. All the In
dians were not agreed in tbe plot, and
one of the Kiowas told Capt. Pratt the
design, and when tho Indians went into
tho mess room tho captain hud the door
secured and the Cheyennes taken out two
by two and ironed. * Mr. Plump says he
obtained his information from tho tele
graph operator at Toooi, and tho railrosl
conductor at that place.
Another story reports that a hal£ breed
started the plot and told the Indians tbit
they might obtain shelter with the Sen-
inolee in the Everglades.
The following letter ha3 beeD received
from St. Augustine s
Sr. Augustine, Fla., April 4> 1876-
A small party of Kiowa Indians, sons
fifteen or sixteen in number, confined ia
Fort Marion, wero to-day discovered as
haviag formed a mutinous plot to de
somo serious mischief to those in cox-
mand,nnd to make their escape to-night.
Under these circumstances, Capt Pratt
called in the aid of a detachment
soldiers from tho garrison and had then
arrested an<J ironed and placed in one o’
the dungeons of the Fort. Tho fall de
tails of the plot havo not yet transpired,
although it is fully known to CapbJ
Pratt, who has heretofore treated then
with the utmost Christian kindness, as-
gsvon them almost unrestrained liberty.
—San Cth. — ^
A Contrary Mule.
A farmer in this county, says a North
Carolina paper, has a mule so contw
that ho can do nothing with It.
in harness and it is hard to Ba J' w r®
way he will travel. Put a saddle on al
and he appears to doze, but try to most
him and he'will all of a sudden hegm ^
kick every way—straight out, strarfR
bug, with all four legs at once. As
eating, he will eat anything, f r0B _,,
feed trough up to a wooden saddle. *
owner took a notion to have him sD ‘ J
lie kicked out the blacksmith shop
returned home. The owner triad”*
him, some time back, so he tied his
with a trace chain and rode him**® ^
consecutive days and nights as w*
he could under whip and spar.
fact is, that he nearly killed •,
tho effort, and had to be carried up r
to bed, and his firm belief was tn ^
mule would dio that night; but, 1
astonishment, the next morning ne g
that tho mulo had kicked top
Chester sow weighing 300 pound-,
piece out of his horse’s ehauMer. -- 3
a saddle, blanket and bridle, tore .
the fence, and was splurging {i
more devilish than ever, to hna
thing else meaner to do.
t*
Lay on McDuff.—A Ber ' in< *?tl
says Austria will not interfere 1 ^
course of the Turkish inxan****^
yond preventing supplies from aE ]
her frontier, and that Bosnia,
Herzegovina are about raising t e ®
ard of another holy war aga lfl5
Turk3 ' —t-T _ the
Beauty and power combined ot i-
characteristics of four P l0 ® c3 nn njau 3 '
nance Herr Krnpp, the Qerm* 5
facturer, has presented to. tne
Emperor. The guns are of „ f, r fit’ 3
upon the latest Prussian «*“**(*
artillery, and rest upon ebony c ;i0 ;
inlaid with mahogany, having o'-
1 and knobs.