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NOTES.
And bow, Mr. President-, we’ll trouble
you to step forward and say “I didn’t.”
Mosbv says be has retired from poli
tics forever. A drop of water which a
sunbeam kissed away did not drain the
ocean dry.
Tins Augusta (Me.) Journal says “Mr.
Blaine’s bands aro cleanbut it said
that a week ago, before ho was called
upon to daunt that dirty shirt.
It has been frequently charged that
Qrant was a man of •* irregular habits,’.
Out hi3 irregularities aro more apparent
now than ever, being substantiated upon
tho testimony of one of his pet?.
A Washington special to the St. Louis
Republican announces that "tho name of
ex-Qor. Bullock, of Georgia, cno of the
worst of the carpet bag rulers of tho
Southern States, has been presented to
tho Prcsilont for tho British mission.”
Wo hardly think the “beef-oatiag En
glishmen” could stomach that Bullock.
Indiana, os wa3 anticipated, goes
unanimously for Gov. Hendricks as the
Democratic candidate for the Presidency.
Tho convention also, as it seems to us,
takes a sensible position on the currency
question.
3laine’s Withdrawal.—There was a
rumor in Washington that Blaine’s
friends will induce him to withdraw
as a candidate for the Presidency. They
claim that if he does so, he can name the
successful candidate.
Another extradition case arose yes
terday in England to complicate the re
lations of the two countries on this sub
joct. It is apurely legal question which
it seems to us, both Governments should
be willing to submit to the decision of
disinterested jurists.
Grant Neutral.— The New York
Times says the President’s position is
correctly stated by saying that between
condidates recognized as Republicans he
will remain entirely neutral, using neither
his personal influence nor tho natronage
of the Government for the assistance or
against tho success of anyone of them.
Sr. Nicholas, for May, by Scribner &
Co., New York, abounds in funny con
ceits, fine pictures and good reading.
“The Cat and the Countess” is a humor
ous article. “Windsor Castle,” by Mrs.
Qliphant, is a fine sketch beautifully il-
lustrated. That interesting story—“The
Boy Emigrants”—is continued. “A Poop
at Old Lombardy,” and “Yaoob and His
Donkey,” are very entertaining, and, in
short, St. Nicholas, to the young, is well
worthy its name.
The Plague.—The plague is raging
in Bagdad, and has crossed the rivers
Tigris and Euphrates to Hillah, a town
sixty miles southwest of Bagdad, and
said to occupy the site of the ancient
Babylon, with a population of about ten
thousand. In both towns there had been
117 deaths ia three days. This ancient
region embraces the scene of the original
creation of man and the site of the gar
den planted by the cieator for the abode
of the first human pair.
A Corrupt Court.—The Washington
correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, a
Republican organ, telegraphs anent Bab
cock’s coming trial on tho safe burglary
charge : “ It is a notorious fact that the
courts in this District are under the en
tire control of the riDg, and that it is an
utter impossibility to secure a conviction
of any of its members. Tho present
District Attorney, Welles, is a man who
would not daro do anything that Shep
herd should direct otherwise.”
Judge Williams and Dr. Elliott went
fishing on Caddo Lake, Texas, and a sud
den gale upset their boat. They swam
to a willow tree and climbed into it.
They were about two miles from shore,
and their boat wa3 blown away. They
upent nearly three days in the tree, suf
fering intensely from hunger, fatigue and
cleeplessness. Occasionally they fell
asleep and dropped off into tho water,
but tho plungo quickly awakened them,
and they got back into their perches.
They were at last tescucd by friends who
came to look for thoir bodies.
The whole country was shocked a few
months ago when Grant nominated and
the Senate confirmed the infamous E. C.
Billings a3 United States Judge for
Louisiana to fill tho place of tho almost
as infamous Dnrrcll. Tho New Orleans
Democrat, of tho 13th, comes to hand
with the statement that Billings offered
Brother-in-law Casey $45,000 to secure
tho prize, one-third to go to Casey, ono-
third to Senator West, and the remain
der to be divided between Babcock and
Porter. Casey hesitated, but the others
were eager for tho trade, and pushed it
to completion in eomo shape. The Dem
ocrat credits Casey with backing ont at
tho last moment, and cannot say whether
the $15,000 allotted to him was divided
by tho Washington crowd or not.
Irish Immigration.—The Sun says the
emigration from Ireland is no longer
what it was ten or fifteen or twenty years
ago. Only a little more than 50,000 per
sons emigrated last year, and the promise
is that this year the number will be even
less—less than in any year sinco 1851.
This shows that tho situation of the peo
plo is improving, that the evils of over
population have been alleviated by tho
vast emigration of tho past quarter of a
century. It indicates perhaps still more
that the bad times in this country have
discouraged intending emigrants from
crossing the ocean. The steamship lines
between here and Europe are either
mating no money or losing money. They
feel the loss of the passage money of em
igrants. The Centennial will be a year
remarkable for the email addition of for
eigners it made to our population.
A Federal Officer who could not
sake the Iron clad.— A curious inci
dent occurred in tho Federal Court at
Now Orleans last week. The jurors were
compelled to take the iron-clad oath or
stand aside. General Cj-rus Bussy, an
ex-officer of the Union army, declared
that ho conld not t ko the oatb, giving
as a reason that during the war ho had
captured a Confederate officer and had
given him bis last shirt, when he know
that tho same Confederate would ag m
fight against tho Government. He had
also given many other things to Confed
erates, and in bis opinion he had thus
given aid and comfort to tho enemy. He
was excused. This is a strange instance
cf tho workings of tho iron-clad oath
when carried out to its full extent. Under
the ruling of Judge Woods it is almost
impossible to obtain a proper jury.
Male of tue Albany News.
Jr tho last number of this sprightly
and vory readable journal, Col. Cary W.
Styles makes tho announcement that he
has sold that paper to Messrs- Evans ani
Weston. Mr. Evans is well known as the
associate editor of tho News, and is a
modest and excellent gentleman. Oar
friend Weston, too, of tho Dawson Jour
nal, is a capital fellow, prime millwright,
good Methodist, experienced editor, un
exceptionable granger, and, in short, a
jack of all trades and good at all. The
reputation cf tho News is perfectly safe
in their hands. Col. Styles’ plans for
the present bavo not been decided. Ho
may [ return to tho journalistic field, or
oliow some other more lucrative pursuit.
! best wishes attend him where’er his
stiny may be cast.
A Black Crime.
Ex-Attorney General Williams was be
fore the House Committee on the Expend
itures of tho “Department of Justice” yes
terday, explaining where the missing
$750,000 went to. One of his expendi
tures was the sum of thirty thousand
dollars, from the Secret Service Fund, to
carry the New York election in the cam
paign of 1872. Being hard pressed for
his authority and reason for making such
an expenditure as that, ho was driven into
a corner and obliged to plead that it was
done “by the direct orders of the President,
This is tho first time a President of the
United States, or, so far a3 we know, any
othor American Executive officer wa3 ever
convicted of such a wicked misapplica
tion of the public revenue; but we hardly
dare hope that there is sufficient moral
and political integrity left atnoDg the
people of the United States to repudiate
such an act as it deserves. The interfer
ence with the freedom of elections by
the President and the Radical party at
his back, has been so gics3, that it should
long ago have aw ikened intense alarm
and indignation. Military arrests and
draggonades—the employ ment of salaried
public officers in open electioneering at
the national expense—a regular tax as
sessment on official salaries—the
of the public officers and property in
circulating electioneering documents, and
of Congressional traveling committees
and heads of departments in getting up
material, all these practices positively
dishonest and illegal, may have prepared
the people for the last step—that of
fraudulently appropriating the public
money directly to control elections In
the interests of the incumbent.
Now, if President Grant, instead of
turning over this sum of thirty thousand
dollars to control the election in New
York for himself, had quietly pocketed it,
there might he some animadversion on
'the proceeding. People would have said
" he is a thief.” But he really used tho
money for himself, and he had the same
right to buy merchandise with it as to
apply it to the purchase of votes or of
personal political benefit. It was quite
as much his for the one purpose as for
the other. But, in using it to prostitute
the ballot, he has done far worse with
the money, than if he had taken it to
buy whisky and cigars. He has taken
money due to honest public service, and
used it for corrupt and corrupting pur
poses—used it to debauch, bribe and de
grade the electors. We challenge any
man to show that this is not, in its es
sence, a graver offence against official in
tegrity and the honor and welfare of the
country than any of which Belknap was
guilty.
And it is disheartening to reflect how
many prominent politicians and pnblic
men in tho Radical party knew of this
black crime against the American peo
ple and quietly connived at it—have
never opened their lips on the subject to
this day. They knew of this fraud, and
they divided the proceeds among them
selves and the voters without a word of
exposure or remonstrance.
Still more astounding is the reflection
that this is probably only one of a great
many such fraudulent appropriations of
the public money. Their name, doubt
less, is legion. While the American
tax-payers have been groaning under an
enormous burden of taxation, their tax-
money has been worse than wasted io
corrupting the very sources of free and
upright government.
We trust the committee will not let
Williams go till they have wrung out of
him the last fact connected with this
conspiracy against honest government.
Fonl Bottoms—and the Moral.
In a recent visit to the naval fleet
near Port Royal, while going alongside
of tho turreted iron monster Dictator,
the swell caused by a stiff breeze le-
vcaled the submerged sides of the ship,
and showed that they were covered with
streaming growth of marine vegeta
tion, at least two and a half feet in
length. This was of a greenish hue, re
sembling tho moss to be seen in the
shallow parts of Saratoga Lake. Happily
worms cannot penetrate the iron walls,
but, doubtless, they are coated also with
hundreds of bushels of barnacles and
muscles. It is surprising bow much
these parasites retard tue headway of a
vessel Doubtless the impeding force in
this instance requires the consumption
of many an additional ton of coal. To
clear the bottom of this immenso ram,
she mast be taken into a dry dock, and
tho cost will be very heavy.
This instance is suggestive of all of
Secretary Robeson’s operations. Squan
dering millions for show, and wasting
the public money, besides stealing, or
allowing it to be stolen in every depart
ment of the service, from the heaviest
contractors down to the butcher and ba
ker who victual the ships, he yet neglects
the essentials, and permits the most cost
ly vessels to become unseaworihy for
want of attention.
Verily it does seem that a substratum
of corruption underlies the whole fabric
of the Federal Government as at present
conducted. There must be a thorough
cleansing of the Augean stables by a
change of administration before any real
good can be effected. Turn out the
knaves and put in honest men. It i3
fortunate that the conviction is becoming
nniveraal that much of the present busi
ness depression of tho country is owing
to the destruction of all pnblicconfidence,
and the overwhelming frauds in the Gov
ernment.
As the election draws near, this thought
will come home to the people and cause
a powerful reaction against the Radicals.
This is shown already in tho movement
of prominent Republicans io form a new
party. They can’t abide their present
company and associations
Tne skies aro brightening for the
Democrats if they will but ignore side
issues, refuse to be entrapped into angry
discussions in Congress, and sink see.tional
differences hereafter. May we not hope
that the honesty of the country willasBert
itself intbe next Presidential election ?
Horn Pedro.
This great magnate, though the head
of a semi-barbarous Empire, is himself a
polished scholar and fully abreast of tho
other crowned monarchs of the universe.
His whole policy at home has been of the
most liberal character, and he seem3 to
have struck the juste milieu between the
extreme innovations of modern progress
and the hoary superstitions and ignor
ance of a Jesuistical priesthood. Even
in Catholic Brazil all other religious sects
are tolerated and protected, provided they
ttonot crown their houses of worship with
towers and spires. In that remote coun
try, the ecclesiastical dogma, “ no steeple
no church,” has been verified.
Slavery, too, we believe, is to be grad
uaily abolished, the Brazilians Ehowing
far more sagacity in this respect than
the enlightened North American nation.
The Emperor remained but forty-eight
hours in Gotham, and rigidly maintained
his incognito. Ho will visit St. Fran
cisco, and remain in that metropolis of
the Pacific five days only, and then re
turn in time for the opening of the Cen
tennial. The Empress will not accom
pany him.
His Imperial Highness designs visit
ing every State in the Union also, if
possible, and we trust will not give Ma
con the go by. It is his intention to re
main in tho United States until some
time in July, and then make the tour of
Earope before returning homo. The
Emperor will doubtless improve tho ex
periences and observations of travel,
like Alfred the Great, to the benefit ef
his subjects.
Tho Resumption Bill*
The New York Daily Bulletin says it
will be remembered that tho Paine bill,
adopted m tho Democratic caucus, re
ceived its quietus in tiro House. That
bill provided for resumption in ten years,
by making the banks and the Govern
ment each accumulate a coin reserve of
3 per cent, a year for ten years, and then
resume specie payment. This was the
simplest proposition, next to a naked re
peal of the act, that has been presented,
and its simplicity seemed to commend
it to favor. But when it camo to the
test it wa3 beaten out of sight. The test
on a repeal of tho act was never taken on
a square vote; it always camo up on a
Monday, under suspension of the rules,
when it required a two-third3 vote; but
it always got a majority. Tho Banking
and Currency Committee will, no doubt,
come forward with a bill, the main fea
ture of which will be a postponement of
the date of resumption. Such a bill
would be open to amendment by a total
repeal prevision, but many think a post
ponement, instead of a total repeal, would
carry. Especially is this belief more
general, because of the recognized un
derstanding that tho Senate will not agree
to a total repeal, and no matter what the
House may do, the Senate can enforce a
compromize or defeat all legislation per
taining to the subject. So the indica
lions are very strong that Congress will
postpone the date of resumption named
in tho Act of 1875, or do nothing at all
about it at this session.
A Hidden Volcano in Florida.
Of the wonderful secrets of nature that
Florida can boast of possessing there is
one upou which the eye of mortal has
uot yet been permitted to gaze. For
more than thirty years its existence has
been tanializingly proclaimed by a cloud
of smoke that has unceasingly ascended
from an impenetrable swamp sometwen
ty-five mile3 from Monticello, in the
direction of tho Gulf coast. Learned
gentlemen for many years and from
various points have made frequent and
persistent efforts to solve this long
standing and perplexing mystery. But
up to this time nothing has been accom
plished beyond unsuccessful attempts to
search tho place, all of which ended in
disaster within four or five miles of the
spot on which the supposed volcano is
thought to be. Judge Bell and others
are now making a fresh attempt to pene
trate to this mysterious phenomenon.
Judge White, of Quincy, has led several
expeditions to that region, but in every
instance failed to affect an entrance
through the closely interwoven and im
penetrable undergrowth of the centre of
tne swamp. While some of these at
tempts have been feeble and inefficient,
others have been well organized and
equipped, and led by men of experience
and fixedness of purpose. Judge White
had an observatory which he could place
in the tree tops to guide him in tne right
course. And yet this "undiscovered
bourne” remains untrodden by the foot
of a traveller
Bad Blood Between England and
the United States.
Special to the New York Sun.]
The question between the United
States and Great Britain relative to the
extradition of Winslow to this Govern
ment is a far more serious one than is
generally supposed, and is lib -ly to lead
to very grave consequences, affecting not
merely the interests of justice and good
order in this country, but the harmoni
ous relations of the two governments. I
have no hesitation in predicting that the
British Government will maintain its po
sition with a pertinacity equal to that of
our own Government, and you may rest
assured also that Winslow will not be
given up unless the American State De
partment shall make the pledge it ha3 no
idea of making, namely, that ho shall
not be tried for any other offense than
that specified in the requisition and war
rants of extradition. The result will be
that the extradition treaty of 1842 will
go by the board, criminals will have a
freeer and folder bcope, crime will mul
tiply, and, what is far wor»e, the current
of good feeling which had set in so
strongly between the United States and
Great Britain since tho treaty of Wash
ington of 1871 will be changed and one
of alienation and bitterness substituted.
BILLIONS OF PIGEONS.
A Roost Many Mites la IiCnetb—A
Torchlight shootlnK Expedition.
From the New York Sun.]
Moscow, Pa , April 14.—A wilderness
known as tho Beech Woods covers a
largo portion of western Pike county and
northwestern Monroe connty, this State-
Ike Bennett and Clint Waters, bark ped
dlers, were in the depths of tho woods on
Friday last, when they were startled by
a sudden darkening of the sky and a
noise like a heavy gale of wind. At tho
same time tho trees about them began
to fill with wild pigeons. They camo
from the northward, and 03 far as the
men conld see in that direction the air
was black with the birds. They settled
down in the trees as thick as bees, and
in an incredible short space of time the
woods seemed to be a living mas3 of pig
eons. They lighted in the trees in such
numbers that largo branches were broken
by their weight. They seemed to take
no heed of tho men, and crowded tho
trees under which they stood, o
pymg branches almost within reach of
them. Nearly half as hour elapsed be-
foro they all found resting places in the
woods. The bark peddlere killed hun
dreds of them with clubs, and walked five
miles through the woods without reach
ing the end of the*roost. The men say
that with one swoop of a long club they
could knock dozens to tho ground, crea
ting only a temporary panic among tho
pigeons, and that only among those di
rectly attacked.
Tho lumbermen and others, -when told
by Bennett- and Waters of the wonderful
sight they had seen, organized a night
hunt. Dozens of men armed with poles
and guns started for the woods, and
reached there after dark. They carried
torches of pino knots. Tho pigeons
alarmed by tho noise of the guns and
tho glaring of the torches, rose from
their perches nnd flew blindly about.
For two hours tho poles and guns made
sad havoc among the roosting birds. The
roar of thousands of wings, the cracking
of branches, flashing torches, swashing
poles and reports of guns formed a scene
wild and terriblo. Thousands of pigeons
were slaughtered before the lawless and
ruthless destroyers were glutted. Each
one brought away as many as ho could
carry, which was a small portion com
pared with tho number left on the
ground to feed tho foxes and wolves.
On Saturday morning another expedi
tion started out for further slaughter of
the pigeons. The birds had evidently
sought tho roost for the purpose of nest
ing. The woods swarmed with hunters
on Saturday. The great flock finally
rose en masse, and in a short time every
bird had disappeared. The direction of
tho flight was toward the Susquehana
It is estimated that the flock was folly
twelve miles long and four or five in
width.
About four weeks ago an enormous
flock of wild pigeons passed over Sulli
van county, N. Y., and settled in the
wilderness, in the northern part of that
county, near the headwaters of the Bea-
verkill. It is believed that this was the
same flock mentioned above. It extended
from Gillman’s, Sullivan county, to
point thirteen miles to the eastward, and
was several minutes in passing over,
flying very high.
THE TKUTH OF HISTORY.
How Washington Happened tfl Give
I.ee Such a “Cussing.”
A letter to the Rome (N. Y.) Sentinel
narrates this story scout Gen. Washing
ton : “I note tho presence of Msj. C. A.
Riggs, of Booneville, N Y. The Major
is looking very healthy and rugged, and
can toll many good stories, one of which
I send you. as I think it is of Centennial
interest. I tell t he story in as near the
Major's words as I recollect: * My grand
father was of tho same rank in tho Revo
lution as a Sergeant is now, and partici
pated in the battle of Monmouth. The
day was an exceedingly hot on#, and he
WR3 in a brigade coming to the action,
when the commanding officer received
orders to go across lots to another part
of the field. After marching at dou ole-
quick for a mile or so, he halted his men
to breathe. As he did so, six or seven
men rodo up dressed in officers’ drees.
One of them, a man of commanding
presence, reached over to my grandfather
and said: * Officer, give me a drink of
vater.’ My grandfather had that morn
ing had his spontoon filled with good
New England whisky, but ho handed it
over without a word. Tho officer took a
long‘swig,’ drinking about half of the
whisky, and putting his hand in his
pocket, drew out a half-crewn and put it
on the top of the spontoon and handed it
back, saying: ‘Young man, your water
is Dretty strong, but mighty good.’ That
man was Washington, and a half hour
later he gave Lee the most remarkable
damning ever a man took. After tho
battle he sought my grandtather out and
promoted him on the field.’ ”
The eastern Question.
Tho Paris Bourse, on Wednesday, ia
said to bavo been “convulsed” by a ru
mor that the semi-independent princi
pality of Montenegro had pitched bodily
into tho fight with Turkey, and Musbta
Pasha, the Turkish commander, had en
countered a force of 7,000 Montenegrins
on bis march from Nicsic. This news is
confirmed to-day, by a special dispatch
from Constantinople, and adds certainty
to the prospect that Southern Earope is
to witness a grand struggle for the ex-
pulsion of the Turk. A Berlin dispatch
says that there is a complete agreement
between tho great powers on the policy
to be pursued in relation to tho revolt,
hut the antagonistic interests involved in
tho matter leave slender prospects tnat
this harmony can he long maintained.
Scribner lor May.
This popular magazine for May is
gorgeous. It opens with a sketch and
portraits of William Penn. Tho second
article professes to give the true story
of Pocahontas, with fac similes of original
historical pictures and portraits. The
two serials—Philip Nolan’s Friends and
Gabriel Conroy—are continued, with
illustrations. John Guttenberg and his
typographical achievements are described
andillustrated by portraits and fac similes
of bis first essays in the art. Bowdoin
College in Maine is the subject of a lively
and profusely illustrated article, and
there are a score more of interesting
contributions.
Cost of the Centennial Exhi
bition.
At the third annual meeting of the
stockholders of the United States Cen
tennial Exposition, held on Thursday
last, the Treasurer made an approxima'e
statement of the financial condition and
prospects of tho enterprise, as follows:
•‘ So maDy agencies ore in action draw
ing tho various parts of our preparatory
work to a close that it is impossible to
speak other than approximately of the
outlay. We see no reason to vary the
estimato heretofore made, which was
$8 500.000. from tho beginning to tho
final winding up. It must bo borne in
mind that the expenditures incident to
an exhibition on so large a ecale can in
advance only bo given conjecturally. Tho
whole outlay will be provided from the
following sources: State of Pennsyl
vania, $1,000 000; City of Philadelphia,
$1,500,000; concessions, gifts and inter
est, $500,000; stock subscriptions, $2,-
500.000; aDpropriations by the United
States, $1,500,000 As this shows a de
ficiency or $1,500 000. that amount must
be supplied from admission fee3.”
How tbe Democrats Voted on
Ktibourne’s Case*
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.]
There is a very general expression of
satisfaction on all hands that tho Honse
decided to make return with the body of
Kilbourno. There seems to be an im
pression that the sanctity of the writ of
habeas corpus has been strengthened by
its positive and hearty reaffirmation,
even although there was room for doubt
whether its guaranties were being at all
brought into danger by tne proposition
to apparently disregard it in this in
stance. The Democrats divided evenly
on the question, 73 voting for and 73
against.
Mental Overwork.
Bnaines3 men, lawyers, ministers and
editors would do well to heed tbe follow
ing suggestions to be found in the Sani
tary Record:
Overwork exists when tho senses of
energy once possessed is distinctly im
paired ; when it is found an effort to get
through what was once a cheerful task;
when what was once found comparatively
easy is beginning to be felt a trial; and
abovo all when errors or omissions, tho
direct outcomes of a flagging and wear
ied brain, commence to manifest them
selves. To spur on an exhausted brain,
and by application and longer hours of
toil to compel the overtaxed nervous sys
tem to complete its round of duty, is one
•of tbe most disastrous and erroneous
measures that can bo adopted. When
ever work, itself unaltered, looks largor
than of yore, and is felt to tie more trying,
then the system is commencing to feel
the effects of overwork, which, however,
may actually have existed for some timu
unnoticed. This is especially true of the
monotonous labor which is undergono by
the clerks and subordinate officials of our
commercial houses; if they are free from
the anxieties which affect the principals,
they aro the more snbjcct to the wearing
action of monotonous labor.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Mrs. Sukey Minoard, who lately died
in Franklin county, lacked only four
months of being 100 years old.
Mr. Thomas Farmer, a resident of the
same county, is 91 yeare old, and hale.
He had 13 grandsons in the Confederate
army, and ba3 more than a hundred
great grandchildren.
A KEORO woman died in Franklin conn-
ty in March who wa3 125 years old.
Mr. McCablbr, of tho same county,
lately celebrated his 77th birthday. He
was admitted to tbe bar 51 years ago.
The Athens Watchman has ju3t enter
ed upon its 24th year.
Columbus has recently had a colored
Lady Washington Tea Party, which tho
Enquirer notices as follows: The negroes
had their Lady Washington Tea Party
Wednesday night at Temperance Hall.
George was there with his little hatchet.
He was dressed in jeans pants and a gray
sack coat with his pants legs in bis ooot3
upon each of which was a spur. The lady
was dressed in a black domino and
peeped out of a very white cap. Both
of them were as dark ns Africa. Tho
guest3 came from all parts of tho county,
and lived in various'ages. Lord Corn
wallis was there in a “ round about.”
Mary Queen of Scot3 appeared in a “pin
back” muslin, wtilo Ring Heury the IV
"balanced to the center and back” un
der a bluo cotton umbrella. Regulars
appeared in bluo domino, accompanied
by Leonidas with two Colt’s repeaters to
guard tho “mountain pass.” All were
old friends o f Goorgo and professed
great admiration for his black highness
Every one was of inky hue; none of tho
amalgamated took part.
The residenoo of Mr. Wm. T. Woods,
of Wilkes county, was burned last Sat
urday.
Mr. J. S. Mahon, of Champaign, Ill.
writes to B. W. Wrenn, general passen
ger agent of tho Western and Atlantic
railroad, a Business letter, from which
the Constitution is permitted to make the
following extract:
“I have been surprised to find so much
inquiry hereabouts relative to Southern
prospects. A dozen men have approach
ed me within two days to know .more
about the country, the spirit of the peo
pie, and whether I would be willing to
make a homo there. I am now contem
plating a plan to get from fifty to one
hundred people to go South from this
vicinity, next fall, to look for homes,
will want to make some arrangement
with you at tho time, such as Kansas nnd
Texas roads aro making with visitors all
tho time. I think we may as well turn
tho tide Southward that is now flowing
Westward. Some of the most substantial
men in the county have been to see me
since my return. I design to have some
correspondence with the Agricultural
Department of Georgia, and lay before
our people the advantages of different
parts of your State, and in the fall we
will have a big companv who want to
seek homes in a milder climate.”
Atlanta proposes to dig up the re
mains of tho3o who are buried in her
cemetery in lots which have not "been
paid for. How hy-ena’s that for Atlanta.
The Blues, of Barnesville, and Quit
man Guards, of Forsyth, are going to
have a target practice at Goggina’
Station on the 31 of May next.
The Covington Star says: Mr. F. M.
Fuller, of this county, has a solid gold
case watch in his possession which was
made in London, and was brought to this
country by one of the first settlers of Vir
gima. It has been a splendid time keep
er, but is not running now, on account
of an injury caused by a fall. He can
trace its ownership back through his an
cestors for nearly 175 years. How is that
for a centennial watch ?
TnE law firm of Yason & Davis, of
Albany, after an existence of twentj-five
years, has been dissolved.
The Albany News Has been sold to
Messrs Frank V. Evans, who has been
connected with the News, and S. R. Wes
ton, of the Dawson Journal.
The Chronicle and, Sentinel says : The
police arrested, yesterday, a negro named
Prince Jones, who killed another colored
man at Lawton, Burke county, on tho 7th
of last month. Tho sheriff of Burke will
como after Jones to-day.
Tho Cuthbert Messenger has this :
“Wo hoar it reported on our streets
that some parties while out hunting,
camo across a dead negro and a very
large dead hog lying together in a low
flat among eome Ecrubby bushes, on Mr.
Dixon’s plantation in this county, and
closo by the negro was a rusty shot gun
and an ear of corn. Tho negro is said to
be very badly chawed np, so much so
that he conld not bo recognized, but the
hog phowt-d no sign of external injury.
It is generally believed that tho hogs
have organized ft Ku-Klux Klan to kill
out those who are bent on stealing for a
ving, and that this poor old hog died
from over exortion in the noble cause.
The hogs aro now said to go in droves
and when you perchanco find one a little
away from the herd, he has his bristles
up and his teeth snapping, while the
angry saliva rolls from his mouth.
The same paper says: Cotton plant
ing is now going on in most plantations,
yet there are many who have not planted,
a 6eed. Tho weather is not as warm as
it should be or generally is at this date,
and wo have not had warm weather
sufficient to stimulate the growth of veg
etation to any perceptible degree.
Bontnell and tbe Original Fire-bug.
New York World.]
Some Pacific mariners have brought to
California lately, and intend to submit to
Professors Spencer Baird and Townsend
Glover a nondescript specimen of ento
mological freak, a South Sea mantis, a
june bug on erect legs, that eats as vo
raciously as Hallett Kilbourne and prays
standing like a Presbyterian elder. When
Boutwell arrives in Mississippi tho Si
moan insect insect will have to hide its
diminished head. In the swamps and
canebreaks there Boutwell means to find
the original fire bug that sets the South
ern heart aflame; audthe primitive Ku-
klux, with hi3 obscene ritual in his vest
pocket, his splay feet clad in tanned
nigger-hide boots, and a John B. Floyd
rifle strapped across his back, will bo
caught like a wild bonassus in a net and
made to sit for his portrait. Boutwell
can do it. He is the only man capable
oi capturing and taming the great
Sonthern What is It ? Ame3 had but a
’prentice hand for this business, and
Major Louis Merrill was alwavs too pro
miscuous and indiscriminate in his pros
titution to falsehood to get out of tho
common sewer of lies. But Boutwell
does not chase after common bags, and
he is sure to return with the unique
night moth of tho period impaled upon
his sensational pen.
Vienna, April 20.—Tho Tagblalt’s Ra-
gusa special says the Turkish com
mander, Moukhtar Pasha, is preparing
another expedition to revictual Nicsic.
Pesth, April 20.—The Kelep Nepe
newspaper asserts that Montenegro has
declared war against Turkey.
MlscbioTOUS Charity.
Somo years ago I picked up several
children in Chicago, and thought I would
clotae them and feed them; and I took
special interest in those boys to see what
I could make of them. I-don’t think it
was thirty days before the clothes had
all gone to whisky, and the fathers had
drank it all up. One day I mot one of
the little boys, for whom I had bought a
pair of boots only the day beiore. There
was a snow storm coming up, nnd he was
barefooted. “Mike,” says I, “how's
this ? Where aro your shoes ?” *‘ Father
and mother took them away,” said he.
There is a good deal that wo think is
charity that is really doing a great deal
of mischief; and the people must not
think because wo don’t give them
money to aid them in their poverty that
we don’t lovo them, for the monoy would
go into their pockets to get whisky with.
It is no sign that we are all hypocrites
nnd insincere in our lovo that wo don’t
give money. I believe if tho prodigal
son could have got all tho money he
wanted in that foreign country he would
never have come home, and it wis a good
thing for him that he did get hard up
and had to live on tho busks that the
swine ate. And it is a good thing that
people should suffer. If they get a good
living without work, they will never
woik. We can never make anything of
them. God has decreed that man shall
earn his bread by the sweat of his brow,
and not live on other people.—Moody.
It may be observed that no attempt i3
made to hunt up out-of theway or un
known places to find names to endorse
Simmons’ Liver Regulator:
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens.
John W. Beckwith, Bishop of Ga.
General Jno. B. Gordon, U. S. Senator.
Hon. Jno. Gill Shorter, ex-Governor of
Ala.
Rjv. David Wills, D. D., President
Oglethorpe College.
Bishop Pierce (of Ga.)
Hon. Jame3 Jackson (firm Howell Cobh
& James Jackson), Attorney at Law, Ma
con, Ga.
Jno. B. Cobb.
R. L. Mott, Coltimbu3, Ga.
For the Southern 'Watchman.]
tan Ex-Secretary Belknap be Im
peached t
Hon. J. H. Christt,
Editor Southern Wauchman.
Dear Sir—I have carefally considered
the question which yon pat to me—
Whether a civil officer of the Govern
ment of the United States, who has
been guilty of high crimes and misde
meanors, can be impeached, after he has
resigned his offico and tho President has
accepted hi3 resignation P
It seems to mo perfectly clear from
an examination of the provisions of the
Federal Constitution, and of all tho re
corded cases of impeachment, both in
the United States and England, and
from a duo consideration of the dictates
of good policy and good sense, that Mr.
Belknap’s resignation of tho office of
Secretary of War does not in the least
affect the power of tho Honse of Repre
sentatives to impeach, or of tho Senate
to try him.
1. What are the provisions of tho Con-
stitution in regard to impeachments ? In
Art- 1, Section 2, it is provided that the
Honse of Representatives “shall have
the sole power of impeachment.” In
Art. 1, Sec. 3, it is further provided
that “the Senate shall have the sole
power to try all impeachments. When
sitting for that purpose, they shall be on
uath or affirmation. When the President
of the United States is tried, the Chief
Justice shall preside, and no person
shall bo convicted without the concur,
renco of two-thirds of tho members
present. Judgment in cases of impeach
ment shall not extend further than to re
moval from offico and disqualification to
hold and onjoy any office of honor, trust
or profit under the United States; bnt
tho party convicted shall nevertheless be
liable to indictment, trial, judgment and
punishment according to law/'
In Art. II., Seo. 2, it is further pro
vided that the President “shall have
power to grant reprieves and pardons for
offences against the United States, ex
cept in cases of impeachment, 1
. Thu3 It will be seen that the Constitu
tion invests tho popular branch of the
Federal Congress, a3 the direct reDre
sentativea of tho people, with the solo
power to find and prefer articles of im
peachment—to frame the indictment
and put the accused on his trial; and in
vests the Senate, as a Court, with the sole
power to try impeachments and to pun
ish on conviction, within certain defined
limits. Tho power to try and to punish,
of course, carries with it all the necesaa
ry powers to execute fully the manifest
purpose of the supreme law, which is, to
remove from office —to degrade—any
civil officer convicted of high crimes or
misdemeanors, and to disqualify him
perpetually from holding or enjoying anv
office of honor, trust or profit under the
United States, placing it out of the power
of the President, in the exercise of Ex
ecutive clemency, to pardon and thus
remove tho disqualification.
In tho article of the Constitution
which declares that where the Ju
dicial power of the United States
shall be vested, no reference is made to
trial by impeachment. It would 6eem,
as Judge Rawle says in his “View of the
Constitutions,” that the high tribunal
by which impeachments are tried, “flows
rather from the formation of the Con
etitution than is expressly created by it
Impeachments are introduced as a Known
definite term, and we mu3t havo re
course to the common law of England
for the definition of them.”
All the great jurists and all the most
distinguished writers upon tho Constitu
tion of whom I havo any knowledge, are
of opinion that the authority of the Sen
ate of the United States to try civil offi
cers of the Federal Government who have
been impeached for “treason, bribery or
other high crimes and misdemeanors/’ ‘
precisely similar to that of the House of
Lords in like cases in England. In that
country the House of Commons, acting in
tho name end on behalf of the people,
prefers the accusation, just as the House
of Representatives doe3 in this country.
There tho Horse of Peers, just like our
Senate, is tho high court to try the case.
Both in England and in the United States
the authority of tho court is not limited
to offences against the common or statute
law, but to all official crimes; the only
difference is in the punishing power of
tho conrt in England and in the United
States—in the former tho court having
power to inflict capital punishment, con
fiscate property, attaint blood, imprison,
exile, degrade and disqualify from hold
ing office, while here the power is confined,
as already stated, to removal from office
and perpetual disqualification to hold of
fice under the United States. In neither
country is there any limitation as to the
time within which the offender may be
tried and punished, and once convicted he
is expressly excluded from Executive par
don. The purpose of impeachment is to
remove a faithless officer and render him
incapable of again abusing an office to
tbo detriment of the people. It is, as
Judge Jay wrote in No. C5 of the Fed
eralist, “ a proceeding of a political na
turn,” divesting the gnilty official of
his political capacity, which is not com
pletely effected until he is forever dis
qualified from holding office. The sen
tence of disqualification to hold any fu
ture office is not directed against the
guilty incumbent of an office at tho time
it is passad, but against the possible in
cumbent of an office in the future. The
power to try him is not derived from the
fact that he is actually in offico at the
time, but from the fact that he has held
an office which ho has abased.
II. Now, what do the precedents in
England and in tho United States teach
us upon the point ?
(n the United States there are very
'few-’cases in whieh public officers have
been impeached. The first and most
important case is that of Senaior 'Wil
liam Blount, of Tennessee, who, in 1797,
was impeached by tho House of Bepre-
etntives for having while Governor of
the Territory of Tennessee, conspired
to seize New Orleans and tho adjoining
territory, then belonging to Spain, with
which country the United States was
then at peaco, and by the aid of some
English adventurers and Indians, deliver
it over to Great Britain. Mr. Blount
had been expelled from tho Senate, and
it was urged by his counsel that the
members of the Senate having passed
judgment on his case, were not impartial
judges to hear his impeachiner t. It was
not urged that ho conld not be impeached
because ne was no longer in office. In
deed, it was conceded by his counsel that
he could not escape impeachment for any
such reason. B.ount was not tried be
cause it was decided that a Senator in
Congress is not a civil officer of the
United States, within tho meaning of
the Constitution.
The next case wa3 that of Judge Pick
ering, accused of “disregarding tho au
thority of the laws ” in a trial concern
ing a ship arrested for an alleged viola
tion of the revenue laws. Judge P. was
found guilty and was sentenced to bo
removed from offico. The additional
punishment, disqualification from hold
ing office in tho future, was not inflicted
—thus showing conclusively that re
moval from office and dis <bilityto hold of
fice thereafter, do not constitute one pen
alty, the whole or no part of which must
bo inflicted, but that they are two penal
ties, ono or both of which may bo im
posed at the Court of Impeachment.
In two other cases—those of Judge
Cbaso in 1804, accused of arbitrary and
unjust or scandalous behavior on the
bench, and of Judgo Peck in 1830, ac
cused of arbitrary and oppressive conduct
in ordering tho arrest of counsel for con
tempt of court—the impeached parties
were acquitted. Tbo only remaining case
on record, with the cxception of that of
President Andrew Johnson; is that of
Judgo Humphries in 18G3, a Federal
Judge of tbo District Conrt of Tennes-
sec, accused of treason, and of course
speedily convicted and both penalties
pronounced against him.
A very strong case in point occurred a
few years ago in tho State of New York.
It was that of Judge Barnard, accused of
was urged in his behalf that he -onld
not be legally impeached for au offence
alleged to have been committed in a pre
vious term of office. The crimes with
which he was charged were all committed
in an official term which had expired.
The point was elaborately argued on
both sides; but Judge Barnard was
tried, found gnilty and punished by re
moval and disability.
Tho precedents in England are nu
merous in which impeachments were
sustained against pnblic officers who had
resigned or otherwise vacated their of
fices. Lord Chancellor Somors was im
peached two years after he retired from
office in 1700. Lord Chancellor Maccles
field wa3 impeached after he had resigned
his office, and was found gnilty, fined and
imprisoned on charges resembling those
which are made againBt Mr. Belknap,
namely, accepting bribes. Warren Hast
ings was impeached long after the expi
ration of his term of offico of Governor
General of India, and Viscount Melville,
Treasurer of the Navy, had retired from
office before he was impeached for hav
ing received perquisites and made pri
vate use of the public money, in violation
of the law. There are a number of other
English cases that might be cited to
show that resignation or retirement from
offico has never been admitted to be a bar
to impeachment. On the contrary, the
invariable practice has been to impeach
without reference to the official or non
official status of the accused.
m. Good policy and good senso seem
to demand that the resignation from
office cannot affect the power of the House
of Representatives to impeach, or of the
Senate to try, an offending pnblic officer.
To hold the opposite opinion would be to
declare that an offender, no matter how
grossly he may have abased his trust and
damaged the republic, can, when ac
cused, break the sword of justice and
annul the power to punish, by voluntary
retirement from office. It must always
bo home in mind, that the Constitution
gives th9 Senate tha power to remove
from office and to disqualify from hold
ing office in tho future. Indeed, the
great force of the punishment—that
which deters most effectually from official
misconduct—is in the degradation of the
perpetual disqualification.
Is it not absurd, then, to suppose that
the Senate can be stripped of its power
to try Mr. Belknap, because, by his resig
nation of the office of Secretary of War,
he has rendered it impossible to inflict
one of the enumerated punishments—re
moval from office? Can anything be
more preposterous than that Mr. Belknap,
while ho fully admits his guilt, saying
to the Congress, “Because, by my rapid
resignation, I have rendered it impossible
for you to remove me from office, you
cannot and shall not disqualify me from
holding other places of honor and trust.
Bccanso yon cannot inflict upon me one
of the enumerated punishments yon
shall not inflict the other?” I cannot
comprehend how it can he earnestly
urged that where the Constitution clear
ly and expressly confers upon the Senate,
as a court of impeachment, the power to
impose two distinct penalties, ono of them
cannot be imposed because it has become
impossible by the act of the delinquent
official to impose the other.
It seems to me, therefore, perfectly
clear that in view of the provisions of the
Constitution, the unvarying precedents
here and in England, and the manifest
dictates of common sense, the power of
the House to accuse and the Senate to
try W. W. Belknap for bribery and other
high crimes and misdemeanors, is not
affected by his resignation, further than
that, if ho shall convicted, he cannot be
removed from office. Respectfully,
Wm M. Browne,
a very rapid youth.
The Strange story of Attorney Gen.
eral William’s Stepson-How he was
Le* into Crime non Indnced to
Jump the Country by Government
Detectives.
Washington special to the Chicago Times.]
A perceptible shiver runs through so
ciety here to-night at what is supposed
to have been a revelation by Wbitley to
the inquisition committee headed by
Proctor Knott, of an especially scanda
lous incident concerning the family of
ex-Attomey General Williams. The
facta have been known only to a very few
people np to this date, and the exact
shape of them 1b not even now distinctly
known to the vast majority of those who
shudder as aforesaid. Attorney General
Williams had once a stepson, a wild,
graceless, dissipated young fellow, whose
love for fast life and illicit pleasures
would have driven him through more
mnnow tKan A T Stnnronf 1 off U-J — v
Jones County Democratic Meetlnw.
Clinton, Ga., April 18, 1876.
At a meeting of the citizens of Jones
county, held this day, to appoint dele
gates to the District Convention to be
held at Milledgeville on the 26th mst.,
A J. Middlebrooks was called to the
Chair and Jno. Hardeman wa3 appointed
Secretary.
On motion, E. C. Grier and J. Harde
man were appointed delegates, and W. A.
Chambers and P. T. Pitts alternates to
attend the Milledgeville Convention.
The following persons were appointed
as the Democratic Executive Committee
for the county: Samuel Barron, A. S.
Hamilton, Dr. James Barron, E. V.
Hardeman, A. J Middlebrooks, W. A.
Chambers and G. W. McKay.
On motion, the Macou Telegraph and
Messenger was requested to publish the
proceedings.
A. J. Middlebrooks, Ch’n.
Jno. Hardeman, Sec’y.
"Whooping TJp the Hyena-
Special to tho Cincinnati Enquirer.]
Tho scene in tho House in the debate
on Mr. Hurd’e habeas corpus resolution
was thrilling and electrifying. When
Tucker (Virginia) had nearly completed
his speech, Blaine took a position just in
front of the Speaker, and began in his
usual stylo of bullying trying to provoko
Tucker onco more into somo State rights
utterance. Tucker understood Blaine’s
object, and, imitating Blaine’s voice and
manner, ho gave the Republican leader a
dose of his own mtdieme. Blaino at
tempted to oreakthe force by interfering,
but Tncker skinned him completely. He
said instead of spending bis time as a
legislator in examining the laws of liis
country Blaine seemed to delight in
hunting private records, to taunt and
fling at members in debates. Tucker
was frequently interrupted by applause,
and Blaine finally retired to his corner,
like a whipped dog. This is tho worst
skinning Blaino has CTer received in
Congress, and hereafter when he inter
feres he wil: catch h—1 from the word
Foster, of Ohio, said: “ I knew
Blaino would get his neck broke when
ho went down there, and he did.”
Fotomuo Fish Trade.
Fish town this morning presented a
mo3t animated appearance. The wharf
was crowded with fishing vessels, packed
somo places three deep, and tho
measurers, cutters and other laborers
connected with the handling of fish were
as busy as bee3. All this, together with
the noise of tho hammers^ of the car
penters who aro patting up the new
buildings there, made a scene of bustle
and thrift such 03 has not prevailed
this season. Receipts have largely in
creased, amounting to 10.000 shad, 90.-
000 herrings, 1,700 bunches of rook and
perch and 8,300 taylors. The prices ob
tained were: For shad from $12 50 to $14
per hundred; herrings, from $10 50 to
Jill 50 per thousand; rock, from 16 to25.
cents apiece; white perch, from 6 to 10
cents per bunch, and taylors one cent
apiece.—Alexandria Gazette, April 15.
Nebraska Democratic Convention*
Omaha, April 20 — The Democratic
State Convention, held at Lincoln yester
day, was the largest and most influential
ever held in the btate. Resolutions for
hard money and reform were adopted
with unanimity. Two-thirds of the con
vention favored the nomination of Gov.
Tilden for President, bnt no formal ex
pression was given to this preference.
The delegates were chosen to the national
convention. They arp known to be for
Tilden unanimously
Removing Life’s Heaviest Durden.
To remove the burden of disease, the
heaviest that poor humanity is compelled
to bear, is certainly a grand object, a
glorious mission. Assuredly the discov
er of ft remedy which accomplishes this
result is entitlod to tho gratitude and re
spect of mankind. Such a remedy is
HoBtetter’a Stomach Bitters, whose great
success is attributable to the fact that
its restorative action upon tho debilitated
and disordered system is in accordance
with the principles of common sense. It
invigorates the sick, and, as their strength
increases, the burden of disease grows
lighter. It reforms those physical irreg
nlarities which render weakness chronic,
and thus eradicates the ovil at its very
source. Liver complaint, malarious fe
vers, constipation, urinary troubles, ute
rine weakness, and many other causes of
general debility and ill health, are com
pletely removed by the combined tonic
mal’feasanco ancf corruption in offico. It * and alterative operation of the Bitters
money than A. 7. Stewart left, had such
a sum been at his disposal. He lived a
most ungodly life, and spent not only
all the monev he conld get from his
mother’s hnsband, bat all he could
win or borrow, and still was always
“short.” His escapades were numerous
and invariably of a most disgraceful
sort, butnntil one evening he went over
to Baltimore and stole the diamonds and
jewelry belonging to a celebrated prosti-
tute of that city, he had never run fonl
of the criminal laws. That exploit, how
ever, got him into trouble. The female
came to this city, made a great to do
about her loss, and demadned restitution.
Whitley, whose headquarters wera then
m New York, was advised of the circum
stances, and privately, with as little fuss
as possible, brought the young thief
home and compelled Mm to disgorge.
His stepfather’s position was snclr as to
enable him to hash the matter up. Si
lence was enjoined upon all parties, and
with great difficulty the whole business
was kept outof the courts and the papers.
Tbe boy was warned that no more of
that sort of thing would be tolerated ;
and with that warning turned loose again.
The only lesson he seems to have learn
ed from the affair seems to have been
that money conld be raised more easily
and in larger quantities by ontright
stealing than by the less open methods of
swindling, to which he had been accus
tomed to resort, and this discovery he
proceeded to profit by. It was not a
groat while afterward when ho set np a
job to
“crack” his stepfather's safe,
and carried it ont successfully. He broke
into the Attorney General's office, bur
glarized the vault, secured $27,000 and
fled at once with his plunder to New
York. Here he stopped at a fashionable
hotel and enjoyed himself for a day or
two to the top of his bent, when Whitley,
instigated by the old man, who had not
been long in ascertaining who the crim
inal was, broke in upon him, pnt him
under arrest, nnd npon making a search
recovered all the money except $1,200,
wbich ho had spent. He was taken
again to Washington, and the hush-up
process beinc once more brought into
requisition, he wa3 for the second time
set free. After this he involved himself
in several other abominable scrapes, one
after another, each worse than its prede
cessor, until Williams, in despair of him,
and fearing the results should his rascal
ities leak out, determined to get nd of
him. Whitley was sent for, and with hia
aid a schema was concocted that worked
admirably. Tho assistance of a promi
nent secret service official and of two de
tectives, one from New York an 1 another
Brooklyn, was brought into play to carry
it out. The secret service man came to
Washington, mad9 tho boy’s acquaint-
anoo, ran about with him a little while,
and then induced him to go to New York.
TO WORK A BLOKE
whom he represented as fairly leaking
money, and actually invited the skill of
any lad of mettle who would relieve him
of it. The little scamp took the bait at
once, and the twain went to Raw York
without loss of time. There they took
room3 at a fashionable hotel, whence,
shortly after their arrival, they strolled
out and went to a restaurant, where they
met the Brooklyn detective, gotten up as
a countryman—tho victim they were to
shear. A few drinks and a half hour’s'
chat preceded their retiring to the hotel
again, accompanied l>y the bogus
granger. Here the New York officer, by
an understanding between the three,
dragged tbe Brooklyn detective’s liquor
—that is to say, poured some harmless
powder into a glass. Tha Brooklyn man
drank it and in a few minutes lapsed
into feigned insensibility. Then the
New Yorker told tho lad to go in and rip
his pockets—take all the money he had
and divide* At it he went, and in a re
markably short time had him cleaned
ont. He even went further than that,
and, with the primest instinct of a natu
ral thief, appropriated the rings, shirt'
studs, cuff buttons and every other thing
of value tho “bloke” had on. Tbe monoy
had been furnished by the Government,
it is claimed,
OCT OF THE APPROPRIATION FOB THE AT
TORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE,
but the jewelry was the personal proper
ty of the Brooklyn, man, and that had
to be (and was) paid for out of the same
fund. On that afternoon an account of
tho robbery was published in the papera
and a partial description of the robbers
given. This part of the aff.ur was-
inspired by the Brooklynite, and was
genuine so far as the newspapers were
concerned. From that day to ihis noth-
ing has been said to show that tbe crime'
was not a genuine robbery perpetrated by
professionals. The New Yorker showed
the boy a copy of one of the papers, and'
frightened him with the statement that
they must get out of reach or stand the
consequences. They took the next train
for Louisville, where their stay was brief.
They traveled on the money through
several Southern States to New Orleans,.
There they wore overtaken by a circular
purporting to have been issued by the
Secret-service Department, and address
ed to the police of all tbe cities, announc
ing the robbery, describing the robbers,
and offering a reward for their appre
hension. Of course the circular was a
part of the plan. It served it purpose.
The young man, badly soared, was easily
induced to tske a steamer for H-ivana.
Not long after reaching that pert, the
money gave out, and the detective con
trived to give his companion the slip,
LEAVING mx “ BROKE ” IN X STRANGE
FOREIGN CITY,
and ignorant to the last of the real char
acter of his friend. lYhat became of him
is not known. He has neve: been heard
of. But tbe then Attorney General suc
ceeded in clearing himself of a disgrace
ful connection, and tho nation, having
paid handsomely for it, was relieved of a
two-legged pest. The hoy was well
known here in the same “society” that
is shuddering to night over what little it
knows of the scandalous manner of his
life and the thievish way in which hi3
powerful relative cut him off. The vouch
ers on which the money for this business
was drawn from the Treasury are, it is
claimed, still on file in the Attorney Gen
eral’s office.
Abscessed teeth cured by Drs. Holmes.
Let every farmer read the advertise
ment in this paper of "Chufas and Japan
Peas.” If one-half that ia claimed for
these crops by the best authorities be
true, they aro indeed a god-sond .to tha
South. mar29-lmo
Go to Drs. Holmes for dental work.
To all who ore suffering from the errors
and indiscretions of yo 1 th, nervous
weakness, early decay, loss of manhood,
etc., I will send a recipe that will cure
you free of charge. Tho great remedy
was discovered by a missionary in South
America. Send a self-addressed envelope
to the Rev. Joseph T. Inman, Station D.
Bible House. New York City,
nov 21-eod&wtf.
Teeth extracted without pain by Dr*.
Holmes. apU8 tue fri sun&wlm