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favannah Weekly Heirs
I'KDAY, AtUI'KT 14, IH7*.
m ■ ■ ■■—
Is Money a Symbol of Value I
Ike Tribune of yesterday published a
communication from an intelligent cor
respondent, pointing out that money is
not current on account of its intrinsic
value or qualities, but on account of its
being accepted by every one in exchange
for commodities and services—hence in a
mere symbol, representative of all com
modities and services for sale in the
markets of the world.
This the Tribune denies, ami asserts
that “ this notion that monev i a sign,
has been the parent <rf more theoretical
error and practical injustice than any
other fallacy in political economy." Hut,
fortunately, this mero assertion does not
change the nature of money, which could
not render the great services it at pres
ent renders were it not a repre
sentative of everything for sale in
the markets of the world. In
the remarks of the Tribune there is
abundant evidence of the unsoundness of
its ideas as to the attributes and func -
tions of money. Our contemporary de
dares that the precious metals alone are
money, all convertible paper being
'‘merely substitutes for money, and de
riving its value solely from its limitation
in quantity', aud the property affixed to
it by the power of tho government of dis
cliarging debts. “This may be partially true
in regard to our legal tender currency, but
certainly not in/egard to our old State bank
notes, which were not made a legal tender
by either the States or the Federal Gov
ernment. and yet performed all the func
tions of money in the internal operations
of the country fully as well as the
precious metals. Nor aid the late enor
mous increase of the issues of the Bank
of France diminish the value of the notes
of the bank. These, and innumerable
other facts, amply refute the assertions
of the Tribune.
The Triltune observes that were our
present paper currencies tripled in
amount on any given day “nothing would
be added to the capital of tho country
> only a few tons of paper stock,
which for the time being would be locked
up in the currency and incapable of
lasing put to any useful purpose. * * *
There would be no more food, no more
clothing, no more houses anil no more
land than before.” But would not this
be equally tho case if we were to substi
tute the precious metals for our present
paper currencies ? There would then
surely bo nothing added to the productive
capital of the country, as the gold
aud silver “would be locked up in the
currency,” and lienee “incapable of being
put to any useful purposes,” not being
even available to liquidate a foreign bal
ance of trade, as their use for this pur
pose would deprive us of local instru -
ments of exchange and liquidating in
debtedness. Does not ail this prove that
money of every kind is a symbol, repre
senting all tlio useful results of labor for
sale in tbo markets of the world, not
withstanding tho assertions of the Tri
bune to tho contrary ? —N. Y. Bulletin.
The American Laureate on Sartoris,
Junior.
[Hrooklyu Argui*.]
Tho other morning the latch of the gate
opening into tho yard of the Presidents
villa at Long Branch was softly lifted,
and a lissome little figure, with a face as
bright as all the moons of Haturn rolled
into a single satellite, skipped up the
walk and rang tho door hell. Tho visitor
was ushered into the parlor and, gather
ing as many hooks upon Ids lap as he
thought necessary to give him a literary
appearance, patiently awaited tho arrival
of tho President. In a fow miuntes liis
Excellency entered, and upon beholding
the little figure nearly buried behind a
pile of volumes, exclaimed with joyful
surprise :
“Why Childs!”
The famous poet (for he it was) extri
cated himself as quickly as ho could from
his temporary sarcophagus of the works
of distinguished authors, and grasped tho
President’s hand with great cordiality,
“I’ve just come in from Philadelphy,”
lie said, “and I’ve brought a little presont
for your grandson, which 1 hope you
won’t think it too hold in me to offer.”
Then he carefully unfolded a morocco
wrapper and produoed a slip of elegantly
bordered white silk, upon which, in let
tors of gold, wore embroidered the follow
ing stanzas:
TO ULYHSKS AT.UKIINOS SAJtTOIUH,
Horn by tho sou, tho Moatullng ho,
O wluit .1 glorious tiling it is lo be
Horn T>y the sounding mitt,
O linjipy, linppy fair.
Horn with thy mamma's heavenly eves;
Horn to grow up to ho about thy lather’s sizo,
Ami, Ilka thy grandpa, great.
Horn a roaring, radiant hoy.
More radiant Ilian gas or oil of sperm.
To crown w ith grandparental joy
A sure “third term.”
While tlgo poet read it his voice grew
husky with emotion, and as ho presented
it to tho President his eyes dropped mod
estly to tho lloor and his frame shook eon-
of Appomattox was
wlimt
rucovermNHnTieutly to speak, said in
earnest tones:
“My dear Childs, how can I ever repay
you for this?”
Tho agitated bard looked cautiously
uround and then whispered in His Excel
leuoy's ear something of which no record
ltas been preserved, although flic word
“laureate’' was audible. The President
gnvo him a glauoo that burned to his very
soul as ho replied :
“I’ll put it in tho Message, Childs ; I’ll
put it in the Message.”
T’inancial Opinion—This Man Ought
to be a Banker. —She said she'd take a
dozen of eggs, but while tho grocer was
counting them out she asked tho price.
Ho told hor and sho shrieked :
“Seventeen cents?”
“Yes, ma’am.”
“Why, that’s outrngoous
“Well, it’s hard times, and everything
is up. ’
She sat down on a sugar barrel, sighed
several timos, and asked if eggs were
likely to be lower or higher.
“I*don't claim to*be a prophet,” he re
plied, ns ho twisted a sheet of paper into
the shapo of a funnel, “but 1 dare say
Xlmi. they'll be dowu to sixteen and one
half cents iu loss than a week, and per
haps go lower. Trade, which is naturally
J depressed during July and August, is
looking up a little. Our exports of gold
are now equaled by our imports. The
culling in of bonds puts more ready
money afloat, and capitalists are much
Cmore hopeful this week than last. The
crops arc about ready to move, navigation
prospects are brighter, and public confi
dence iu linancial measures is rapidly re
turning. One thing moves around an
other, you see, and though, ns I said
before, I am not a financier, and my pre
diatiop* are not entitled to any great
weigtu.’it seems clear to me that eggs
have got to come down. A groat current
of eggs is setting toward this point from
n dozen different directions, and even if
tho calling iu of bonds and tho sale of
surplus gold don’t produce lower prices.
I cannot see why figures should go up.”
She reached into the pickle barrel,
nipped a cucumber, and went away won
dering why her husband never knew any
thing.—lktroit Free I’ress.
A ConD-Bi,ooDF.r> M order. —The Ab
erdeen (Miss.) Examiner of July 29th
says:
“On Tuesday, when Gapt. W. de B.
Hooper was entering the door of the
Court House, where the Chancery Court
was iu session, he was suddenly addressed
by a young man by the uruio of Bradley
Jones, son of the late Nelsou B. Jones.
iLnud turning half round to respond, was
shot dead in his tracks. No other cause
can be assigned for the foul assassination
than that ill feeling had for some time
existed between the parties iu reference
to an estate matter that was about to come
ou for trial. The affair created the most
inteuse excitement in the city, and there
can be but little doubt that the formali
ties of a trial would have been dispensed
with, had not the murderer been consign
ed to the jail before tho crowd com
t rnenced to assemble.”
Capt. Hooper was a very popular young
man, uhd the eldest son of the late John
son J. Hooper, of Montgomery, Ala.,
well known aa an author and editor.
The New York World asserts that
x “Senator John B. Gordon, of Georgia, is
I likely to figure in the Detroit ltag-Money j
I Convention with Mr. Butler and Mr.
* Wendell Phillips." So far as we have
,been able to learn the World has not the
slightest reason for making this assertion
l except its natural desire to slander every
Lpublic man who will not consent to fol
now itn dictation or condone its repeated
I treacheries.— Augwtta Chronicle.
BEAD AT WINCHESTER.
A (toiler at l.i'arain llrror*.
The following letter, supplementary to
an interesting description of Stonewall
Cemetery, at Winchester, Virginia, from
the pen of a well known Savannahian,
lately published in the News, will be read
with interest throughout the State. The
list annexed is the only complete and ac
curate one that has ever appeared in print:
WiNCHESTEa, Va., August 1, 1875.
In accordance with my promise, I send
you a list of Uie dead of the different
Georgia regiments who are buried in the
Stonewall Cemetery. This was the first
cemetery dedicated to those who died in
their country’s cause, the dedication be
ing on the 11th of October, 1866, and an
oration delivered on the occasion by Ex-
Governor Wise. The ladies of the asso
ciation have a balance on hand of S3,(XX),
an<i are now working to add to it for the
purpose of erecting a monument to the
“I nksows Dead!" to be capped with a
statue of Stonewall Jackson. And
they will then suggest that each State
have erected, in the centre of the square
set apart for the dead from that State, a
granite or marble shaft in place of the
wooden one which now designates the
square; and on the shaft will be cut tbe
names of the dead, with the companies
and regiments, with numbers; and at the
bead of each grave a block of stone will
be placed with a number to corre>q>ond
with the number next the name on the
shaft. If this plan of the ladies is carried
out the records of our dead will stand as
imperishable as the history of their
glorious deeds.
Among the dead buried in Winchester
are many who fell upon the battlefields,
and a large number of those who died of
their wounds.
While on this subject of perpetuating
the memory of our dead warriors, allow
me to suggest to the survivors of the
different regiments that at their reunions,
‘ of which 1 am a warm advocate, that
they r- commend that each survivor
i write the incidents of the battles which
j came under his own eye—the particular
I acts of daring of comrades—with the
] manoeuvring of the company, regiment,
ami brigade to which he was attached,
ami his own views of the tight; then let
j each statement be copied in a book for
j tho future reference of the historian. If
| this plan is strictly carried out we will
have the material for a correct history of
! tlic war.
The ladles of Virginia are proverbial
for their undying love for the “ Lost
Cause,” and for their defiant attitude to
wards the foes of their country, and they
won the admiration of the soldiers ; and
many a gallant Georgian was captured by
their charms, who had refused to surren
der either to Grunt or to Sherman. While
penning this tribute to Virginia’s daugh
ters, it must not be thought that I hold
them superior to the fair ones of Georgia,
who aro equals in loveliness and in devo
tion.
During the war Winchester was cap
tured and recaptured eighty-seven times,
I aud six times in one day, and there are a
: great many reminiscences and incidents
connected with the place which are very
interesting, and some of them 1 may give
you in a future letter.
THE HEROES OK UKOItOIA.
K 1* Dickinson, co C, 34th Ga, died Nov 7, 1802.
I. SI, . coil, 01st (ia.
i’ 11 finish, co K, 51*t Ua, died Oct 9, 1802.
s O McOehce, co IS, 2d Uu Batt, died Nov 19,
1802.
■I W Smith, 9th Qa , (lied July 11, 1801.
VV I* Summers, co B, Phillips’ Leg o, died Oct
31 802
Uciit ,1 .VI Mitchell, co F, 241 h Oa, died Oct
16. 1802.
I> N Jones, Oa.
Lieut J It lliilcrd, 58th Ua.
W Jackson, co L, 01st Ua, died Aug 30, 1864.
J II .Moore, co E, OOth Oa, died Sept 2, IhG4.
It Mc.Klwrath, co K, 60th Oa, died Sept 2, 1804.
.1 Y Smith, co U, 21st Oa.
Si-rgl J J Felder, eo K. 4th Oa.
\V II ltazele, co fi, G4tu Oa, died Sept 23, 1804.
J W Watson, co C, 12th Oa, died Nov 28, lsC4.
K J ilall, co U, 60th Oa, died Nov 17, 1864.
W A Beach, co F, Thomas’ Istgion.
JII Allen, co 11, 4th Ua, died i,ct 9, 1864.
W Williams (a lady says A It), co E, 4th Oa,
died oct 27, lsi>4.
J T Kopor, co I), 29th Oa.
I) liastingcr, co C, 60th Ua, died Ncv 17,1804
J J F- 1 s ell, co A, 3sth Ua.
J T Boon, (the records say Boom), co B, OOtli
(>a, died Dec 24, 1864.
John Williams, ua, died June 2S, 1801.
fi J Strickland, co F, Bth Oa, died July 7, 1861.
Berr.en M Lain, co O, 13th Oa, Lawton’s Brig
Oapt A C Frost, co 1), 4th (ia, died Sept 2u,
1801.
A A1 xander, co A, 10th Oa, died Oct 20, 1862.
J F Sullivan, co F, 4tli Oa, died Dec 11, 1864.
W (t Dayman, co It, 21st Oa, died Oct 10, 1862.
Kergt Bryant, Bth Oa, died Inly 24, 180 .
Seigt-Jlaj W S Kobertsou, 3sth Oa, died Nov
ft, IHlil.
Lieut \V Mt-TwVav.’, cc A, 30th Oa.
Lieut lliglismith, co D, 20th Oa, died Oct 12,
1804.
( apt O II 1 oung, fiOlli Oa, died Oct 1. 1802.
Lieut Cos! (Hover, 21st Oa,died Sept 10, 1804.
Lieut J K Bennett, 11th Oa, died July 25, 1803.
Unknown, eo 0, tllst tin, died Oct 18, 1802.
(iorpl W J Auekaby, co li, Gist On, died Oct 15,
1802.
Wni Wheeler, co B, 48th (in. died Oct 20, 1802.
A T Kersey, co A, 51st Ga. died Oct 23, 1862
( apt N G Yates, co lv, 50th Ua, died Oct 15,
1802.
fi F Templer, co O, 10th Oa.
Wm Bimaid’.', co K, 9th Oil, July 21, 1801.
J Fry (a lady says Tye),co 0,515 t Ua, died Sept
2, 1804.
Bird Williams, co A, 60lh (in, died Sept 4, 1804.
K li rthiy, co A, lath (ia, died Sept 4, 1804.
J F Ellis, 3d Oa, died Sept 5, 1804
A K Argrove, co B, 13 li On, died Aug 20, 1804.
Thomas A Neill, co 11, 3d Ga, died Aug 23,
1801.
M S I’liileman, col), 13th Ga, died July 30,
1864.
B Smith, eo E, 10th Ga Batt, died July 9, 1864.
Corpl J Pope, co 1, 31st Ga, died .Inly 30, 1804.
(! M Smith, co 1, 10th Ga Halt, died Aug 10,
1164.
J Lawrence, co A, 38th Ga, died July 26, 1562.
'J Philcman, co (I, 13th (ia.
II Sweat, eo K, 20th Ga, died July 21, 1)63.
Walters, co F, ft'.tth Ga, died July 18, 1563.
I Gresham, co A, Gist (ia.
J 11 Lemon, io G. 20th (la. died July 20, 1562.
Sergeant J 1) James, eo B, 00th Ga.died July 24,
1804.
W Whitaker, co F, 19th Ga.
Wilks, co lv, 27th Ga.
tGresham, co A, 01st Ga.
J Al Lackey, co K, Hth Ga, died Nov 22,1862.
A T Lubin, co F, 49th Ga.
G Neill, co F, 49th Ga.
W W Chandler, co F, 19th Ga.
A W Pool, co G, 00th (la.
,1 () Foster, eo 1), 35th Ga.died Nov 17, 1862.
F Merett, eo C, 50th Ga, died Nov 13, 1802.
Bestson. co A 57th Ga.
II C lie Witt, co B, 24th (ia, died Nov 8, 1832.
I) Harrison, co A, ftith (la, died Nov 6, ISG2.
Lieut Col Benjamin Edward Sides, 16th Ga,
killed Aug 10, 1804.
A .1 Camp, co A, 7th Ga, died June 26,1861.
Thus 1) lvoouce, co G. lUtli Ga.
s M B—ye—t, co F, 61st Ga.
B F Holmes, 46th (ia
J H Veal, co I, 60th Oa.
J W Davis, co E, 88th Oa.
W 11 fiichardsou, co lv, doth (la,
D .V Green way, co F, 38th Ga.
James it cy, co C, 01st Ga.
11 fi Conner, co K, (list Ga.
J W Brew ton, co G, 2Gth Ga, killed Aug 17,
iso
B T Cheuut, co E, 31st (ia, died June 20, 1803.
J E Morgan, eo G, 31st (la, died June 20, 1801.
Sergeant S A Stuart, 19th Ga, died Oct 8, 1802.
o K Dukes, co G, oist Ga.
J W Slade, co A, 13th Ga.
Lieut J A Driver, co A, ISth Ga.
Geo A Bevis, co A, 12th Ga Batallion, died
July 21, 1801.
Unknown Georgian.
John Ferre, co G. ftfttli Ga, died July 6, 1863.
E !• K Oil Ids, co D, 13th Ga, died July 11, 1863.
E F Heller, col, 11th (la, died July In, 1803.
J Windom, co F, 64th Ga. died July 1, 1863.
J M Flanders co F, 14th (ia, died July 14, 1863.
J Tes’cy, co F, 38th Ga, died July a, 1803.
W e Woolsey, co C, ft st Ga, died July 9,1863
A Sapp, co F, 49Ul Ga, (tied July 8, 1863.
John Bradshaw, co K, lath Oa, died July 8,
1803.
James Irvin, co A, 13th Ga,
lJiciiard \\ illiamson, co lv, 65th Ga, died July
111, 563.
3 C Haulier, co B, 15th Ga, died July 12,180—.
Unknown, co G, 201 ti Ga.
S W Myers, Ordnance Sergeant 26th Ga.died of
wound received at Cool Spiitig, July 19, 1804.
Unknown Georg an, of Hill s Division.
CoriHiral J Ashworth, co D, 21st Ga , died Oct.
19. 1564.
J Liinbert, Phillips’ Legion.
K I! Hill, Cos lv, 4th Ga.
Posey. A I’ Hill s corps, died Nov —, 1804.
Bloodlserst, A 1’ Hill s corps, died Nov —,
1-04.
C F Adams, co G, 31: t Ga.
Unknown Georgian.
J F Dangle, 3d Ga.
John Hatchet, co A, Sth G-, ot Borne, Ga, died
July 10, 1804
Borgt J W Williamson, of Ga.
J J Alexander, Mil Ga.
Daniel Boule, 31st Ga, (Band) killed July 18,
! 1804.
W in J Morris, Augusta Light InfV.
VV J Ferret, Eli s' Battery, died Nov 10, 1862.
11 K R Sykes, this’ Battery, died Nov 10, 1562.
Lieut Stubbs. CO K, 3-1 tl Ga.
E Miller, co B, 4th Ga.
( apt C Chesnut, 63d (In, kilhd Oct 19, 1864.
Lit lit C B Carmical. 63d Ga, killed Oct 19, 1864
Frank King. Georgia, died Aug 12, Im>4.
II D Dunistord, co O,loth Ga. died Oct 19, 1864.
R I, Bose, co C, 10th Ga, died Oct 19, '64.
Unknown Georgian, 53d Ga.
(.'apt C A Haw kins, eo E, 38th Ga, died June 14,
1863.
John li Floyd, (or Boyd), Ga, died Oct 19, ’0).
Unknown Georgian, killed Aug 12, "04.
Unknown Georgian.
J M Laminin, co 1. 00 h Ga.
Unknown Georgian, killed August 12, ’O4.
I ukuown Georgian.
J S Adams, co 1, 60th Ga.
Unknown Georgian.
Scrgt Alien McGhace, co C, 13th Ga.
James I.oc)iard,S7Ui or 28th Ga.
Su-gt P T Miller, 4th Ga.
St Wentworth, 16th Ga.
J) sse Bnuidvilie, co 1, 16th Ga.
W ill P Barnes, c■ ], 4’ Hi Ga, ded June 23.1563.
Bl> IL cox. co 1), 26. h (ia, died July 21, 1864.
Unknown Georgian.
L .M Y( uug, co I, 5- th Ga, killed Oct 19, 1864.
W 11. Tilmmell, Ga,
Sergt George V WeUecor, co C, 53d Ga, killed
Get 19, 1864.
Lieut Myers, co C, 66th Ga, died Oct, 1863.
Lieut W J P O’Neal, co E, 60th Ga, died Sept
22, 1864.
N Cockran, co D, 46th Ga, died Nov 8, 1862.
J Gibbs, co B, 61st Ga, died Nov S, 1862.
•Sunpo ed to be brothers.
tSuiHK>sed to be brothers.
\V Wilson, co D, 6th Ga. died Nov 8, 1862.
Jas Karp, 3d Oa, died July 14, 1861.
8 B Allen, co B, Sth Ga, died July IT, 1861.
B F W alker, 7th Ga, died July 13, 1841.
Tho* E Peeler, DvKalb Light Infantry, 7tb Ga,
died July 2ft. 1861.-
J W Spradlin, co G, 7th Ga, died July 29. 1861.
J F Fleming, of Pulaski, Va, Sth Ga, died July
24, 1861.
t. P Griffith, Sth Ga, died July 24, 1861.
John R WHk Bth Ga. died Jult 96. 1861.
B F Heit, co H, 4th Ga, died Dec 8,1561.
Jas Gibson, Ist Ga.
E V Wedlock, co E, Ist Ga. died Feb 23,1862.
J Price, co F, 12th Ga, died June 2, 1862.
J M Crawtord, 19th Ga.
George B Beall, co C, 28th Ga, died Sept 12,
1 -62.
T J Marin. 4tb Ga. „
B F Stripling, co B, 12th Ga, died Sept 25, 1862.
Sergt J Magouty, eo A, 4th Ga, died Sept 26,
1 -*2.
J Fluriuaw, c > A, Cobb's Legion, died Sept
29,1562.
li Edwards, co A, 23d (ia. died Oct 2, 1862.
P t ( hri*tian,co fc, 14th Ga, died Sept 25, 1862.
u / Ellis, co A. 3ftth Ga, died Oct 2. 1862.
I) Bucker (Mrs B says Vickers), co G, 50th Ga.
John Bhdi (Bush, no doubtj, co A, Phillips’
Legion.
John Lane, co B. 57th Ga. died Oct 4, 1862.
John Hase. co E, 3d Ga.
B M Seward, co G, 21st Oa, died Oct 3, 1862
Joal T Loane, co (J, 45tli Oa, died Oct 3, 1862
T Benedict, Phillips Ga Legioa, died Oct 24,
1562.
I has Haae, co E 3d Ga, died Oct 24, 1862 _
John Hase, co E, 3d Ga, died Oct 2 1862
E D Cody, co D, 4th Oa, died Oct 24, 1662.
J W W idsner, co A, 51st Ga. died Oct 4, 1862.
U Urawford, co I, 4oth Ga, died Oct 7, 1862.
T J Langford, co C, 40th Ga, died Oct 7, 1862.
W Thomas, co K, 57th Ga.
W E Knight, co C, 26th Ga, died Oct 7, 1562.
If M Robinson, co E, 12th Ga, died Oct 8, 1862.
W Richards, co v, 24th Ga.
T S Mobley, co I, Sth Ga, died Oct 9. 1862.
E Hawkins, co F, 53d Ga, died Oct 9, 1662.
J S Kendrick, co A, 13th Ga, died Oct, 1862.
K A Todd, co B, 22d Ga.
John Sellman, co A, 26th Ga, died Oct 9,1862.
John W orth, co C, 18th Ga, died Oct If, 1862.
o P McClure, 35th Ga, died Oct 12, 1862.
J W Harper, co H, 31st Ga, died Oct 11, 1862.
M P Brown, co I, 13th Ga, died Oct 12, ISB2.
J Raddan, co D, 3d Ga, died Oct 12, 1862.
D A Hamby, Phillips’ Leg'n.
Joseph Algood, co G, 35th Ga.
C H Sartin, co F, 31st Ga.
S D Brown, co 11, 53d Ga, died Oct 12, 1662.
J W JacksOD, co E, 35th Ga, died Oct 13,1862.
VV J Caldwell, co F, 18th Ga, died Oct 13, 1862.
Mr Choirs, co G, 7th Ga, (Mrs B says 17(h Ga,)
died Oct 18. 1802,
J F Hardle, co D. 50th Ga. died Oct 11, 1862.
J T B.ayloek, co I), 20th Gs, died Oct 15, 1862.
C G Gorrell, co K, 45th Ga, died Oct 14, 1862.
Henry Lovett, co K, 61st Ga, died Oct 15, 1862
H McKinney, co K, 61 et Ga, died Oct 15, 1862.
P S Wellsford, co A, 48th Ga.
J D Cross, co E, 50th Ga, died Oct IG, 1862.
J Ragsdale, co K, 10th Ga, died Oct 17, 1862.
Haywood, co D, 53d Ga, died Oct 18, 1862.
T J Nance, Ga, died Oct 18, 1862.
M Couskey, co F, 14th Ga.
J W Eroil, coG, 26th Ga, died Oct 17, 1862.
James Collins. 61st Ga.
C P Nancymore, co A, 21st Ga, died Oct 17,
J 862.
W H Ueyno'Us, 50th Ga, died Oct 17, 1862.
J H Hinton, co I, 11th Ga, died Oct 19. 1862.
G W Flecher, co A, 57th Ga, died Oct 20,1562.
Gasway, co B, 60th Ga, died Oct 22,1862,
J C Cloud, co A, 44th Ga, died Oct 20, 1862.
J T Boults, co E, 50th Ga died Oct 22, 1862.
E T Edmonds cC, 3d Ga, died Oct23, 1862.
S Heart, co H, 50th Ga. died Oct 23, 1862.
W E Michel, co K, 4th Ga, died Oci 21, 1862.
A McClenden, co D, 9th Ga, died Oct 26, 18S2.
W J Kuddleday, Puillips’ Legion, died Oct 22,
1V62.
R H Dye, co F, 28th Ga, died Oct 20, 1862.
E W Martin, co E, 2d Ga, died Oct 22, 1862.
A L Brown, co D, 11th Ga, died Oct 21, 1862.
J II Cole. 4th Ga, died Oct 22, 1862.
H E Hopkins, co A, 44th Ga, died Oct 23, 1862.
W Walters, co G, 24th Ga, died Oct 21. 1862.
Unknown, co L, 3d Ga, died Oct 24, 1862.
F F Hitchcock, co A, 50th Ga, died Oct 24,1862.
George Bossel]. co A, 4th Ga, died Oct 25, 1802.
B Moss, co C, 24th Ga, died Oct 24, 1862.
W A Edwards, co K, Sth Ga.
W W Ellis, 22d Ga, died Oct 23, ’62.
M Proctor, co I), 48th Ga, died Oct 23, ’62.
J C Davis, co I, 61st Ga. died Oct 23, ’62.
W B Story, co K, 44th Ga.
D Clark, co K, 22d Ga, died Oct 27, ’62.
J C Wilson, co H, 29td Ga.
J Hendley, co A, 31st Ga, died Oct 24, ’62.
Eives, 50th Ga, died Oct 30, ’62.
it Farrow, co G, Cobb’s legion, died Oct 27, ’62.
J S Edmonds, co K, 60th Ga.
Unknown, co G, Ga.
N B Roberts, co I, 3d Ga,
VV M Ford, co F, 50th Ga.
tlergt T Rose, Brauclie’s Brigade.
B McKenney, Ga.
John Itnis, co I, 50th Ga, died Oct 31, ’62.
W Robinson, co 1), 26th Ga, died Oct 31, ’62.
R G Thompson, co D, 38th Ga.
1) W Smith, co H, 14th Ga.
G VV Thigpen, co A, 4St!i Ga, died Nov 1, ’B2.
T J Goodbread, 26th Gs, died Nov 1, ’62.
M F Treggle, co G, 13th Ga, died Oct 31, Vt.
VV J McCall, co E, 49th Ga, died Nov 2. ’62.
Unknown, co K. 45th Ga, (lied Nov 2, ’62.
E 1), co F, 4th Ga, died Nov 5, ’62.
J (I Berrin, 13th 1 la, died Nov 2, ’62.
G S Parson, co E, 3!st Ga, died Nov 1, ’62.
C MeNiel, 10th Ga, died Nov 1, ’62.
J Slave, sth Ga, died Nov, 2 ’62.
A J Archer, co C, 10th Ga, died Nov 2, ’62.
J 11 Merier, co B, Phillip’s Legion, died Nov 1.
1862.
Daniel Parii, co I, 50th Ga, died Nov 2, 1862.
D J Adkins, co F, 13th Ga, died Nov 4, 1862.
J VV Derrett, co A, 60th Ga, died Nov 2, 1862.
T W Iluydey, co G, 28th Ga, died Nov 4, 1862.
J M M, co I, 16th Ga, died Nov 4, 1802.
D Harrison, co A, 57th Ga, died Nov 6, 1862.
There are buried in Stonewall Cemetery the
following dead:
From Maryland 13
“ Virginia 390
“ North Carolina 443
“ Soutli Curoliua 148
“ Georgia <289
“ Alabama 73
*• Mississippi 66
“ Louisiana 69
“ Florida 38
“ Tennessee 29
“ Arkansas 20
“ Texas 5
And 820 unknown dead.
THE CROPS.
Report of tlio Mtnlo Uoiiimissioiirr.
Dr. Thomas P. Janes, the State Com
missioner of Agriculture, has issued his
last monthly report. We give his sum
ming up in full and the returns for
neighboring counties. The following
questions elicited the information given
below:
Question —What is the average price
paid men as laborers on the farm ? An
swer—slo per month, and board.
Question —What is the average price
paid women as laborers on tbe farm ?
Answer —$5 50 per month, and board.
Question —What per cent, of able
bodied negro women labor on the farm ?
Answer —28 per cent.
Question —Are they willing to cook and
do house work ? Answer—6l per cent of
the correspondents say “no;” 3!) per cent,
“yes.”
Question—What part of the crop is
generally given as pay for labor ? Answer
—3B per cent, say ;42 per cent., 4; 12
per cent., fof the corn and of the
cotton ; and 8 per cent., say
Question—When land is rented for
part of the crop, what is generally re
quired ? Answer—2o per cent, report
72 per cent, say sof the corn and of
the cotton, and 8 per cent., £ of all.
Question —When land is rented for
cotton, how much is generally required ?
Answer—73 per cent., say or 2 bales
to the plow, 19 per cent less than this,
and 8 per cent. more.
Question —When land is rented for
money what is paid per acre ? Answer —
$3.
Question —Is labor more, or less, effi
cient this year than last ? Answer—46
per cent, say “more;” 44 per cent, report
it equally so, and 10 per cent. less.
Question —What per cent, of labor is
hired for wages? Answer—26.44 per
cent.
Question —What per cent, of farm la
bor is hired for part of the crop ? An
swer—4s.Bs per cent.
Question —What per cent, of farm la
borer rent land ? Answer —25 per cent.
Question —What per cent, of renters
can farm without financial assistance?
Answer —11.25.
Question —Which has proved most
profitable, hiring for wages, cropping or
renting ? Answer —52 per cent, say
wages, 24 per cent, say cropping, and 24
per cent, say renting. The average per
cent, of profit made by farming is re
ported at 3.11 per cent. Many corre
spondents report that farmers do not
know whether they make or lose. Some
report as high as 25 per cent, profit,
while others report as much as 10 per
cent. loss.
Since the receipt of the returns from
which the above consolidation is made,
information received from Middle, South
eastern, Southern and Southwestern
I Georgia indicate serious iujury to crops
by drought, excessively hot weather and
parching winds. Mr. C. A. Alexander,
of Wilkes, has been remarkably success
ful in raising hay by sowing red clover,
meadow oat grass aud orchard grass in
his cotton in August. Farmers will do
well to experiment on this line.
A citizen who was driving along the
Jackson road, the other day, saw a man
up a tree near the roadside, and, halting,
he inquired: “What’s the cause of your
being up there?” The man made no
reply, and the citizen continued: “What's
the cause of your being up there?” At
that moment a woman rose up from the
fence corner, rested a club on the fence,
and remarked: “I’m the cause, stranger,
and if you’ll wait till he comes down
you'll see the worst field of carnage
around here that ever laid out-doors
The citizen drove on, and she turned to
the man up the tree and continued: “Pol
hemus, I can’t climb, and you know it ;
but if you’ll drop down here for two
minutes I’ll give you a quit-claim deed of
the faim.” —Yvcktburg {Mist.) Herald.
“Do you get off here?” asked the purser
of the steamer City of Newport of a lady,
as the boat was within two or three hun
dred rods of Bullock’s Point, Tuesday
afternoon. “No,” she responded, and
just as the purser was about to tell her
that she would have to buy a return
ticket she continued, “I get off when the
boat reaches the wharf,”
TIIE OIJ) THIRD GEORGIA.
A (food send OO—A lhanir ot Cora—A
VYllminaion Breakfast and a Weldon
Dinner—A Virginia Welcome— Fnibunl
aatle Reception at Portsmouth—Greet
ing of tbe Ladies— Eloquent (speeches—
Union. Fraternity and Brotherly Love.
[■special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Portsmouth, Va., August 3, 1875.
The Survivor's Association of the Third
Georgia Regiment assembled in Augusta,
Georgia, on yesterday to the number of
about one hundred and twenty-five, and
at five o’clock took the train for this city.
With the ladies and invited guests they
filled four passenger cars and a Pullman
sleeping coach, all of which were new and
in a neat and clean condition. But for
the unreliable action of the railroad man
ager there would have been a much larger
crowd on board.
A salute of thirteen guns was fired
just before the train left the depot, aud
although a heavy shower prevailed at the
time of our departure, the streets through
which the cars passed were filled with
crowds of citizens, who gave us a parting
cheer, while the ladies from balconies
and windows waved their handkerchiefs
and bestowed their sweetest smiles.
Nothing of interest transpired until we
reached Wilmington, where we changed
cars, although we expected no such change,
and were crowded into some very dirty and
uncomfortable cars. The depot eating
house proprietor also took advantage of
our condition to give us a poor breakfast
at a good price. I paid one dollar only
for a single buscuit and a cup of tea, and
it was terrible poor. But at Weldon we
found a different kind of a man in charge
of the dinner house. He took less than I
offered him and treated our boys well.
No demonstrations were made, however,
in either of these cities, although it was
known that the Confederate veterans
were to arrive there this morning. But
when we reached Virginia soil—
the soil which the gallant Third
Georgia came here to defend thirteen
years ago—our triumphal march com
menced. At Franklin the people brought
out a six-pounder and fired a salute dur
ing the few moments that the train
stopped, which was replied to by hearty
cheers from our veterans. When we
reached Suffolk we found the whole popu
lation of the town at the depot with a
brass band, and our arrival was greeted
with cheers and other demonstrations of
joy. Hundreds of beautiful maidens
gave us their sweet smiles, and every
thing seemed to say, “Welcome, thrice
welcome, to the Old Dominion.” Dr. J.
T. Kilby, formerly surgeon of the regi
ment, now resides here, and as soon as
the boys saw him they rushed for him,
and bore him on their shoulders to a fiat
car on the side track and told him he
must speak. With deep emotion he ex
pressed his joy at again meeting his old
comrades, and cordially welcomed them
once more to Virginia soil. The sudden
departure of tbe train cut his remarks
short, and he jumped aboard and came
on with us.
Of our reception here I hardly know
how to speak, as it was one of those
events which the reportorial pen cannot
do full justice to. The demonstration at
Suffolk gave us to understand that the
whole people of Virginia were aroused,
and we knew that if such were the case
the good citizens of Portsmouth would
be more than overjoyed to greet again
the veterans who thirteen years ago so
promptly rushed to the defense of that
city. But our reception has far exceeded
our fondest anticipations. The train en
tered the depot amidst the booming of
artillery, and the cheers and shouts and
greetings of an immense throng rent
the very air by which we were sur
rounded, so hearty, so numerous and so
prolonged were they. On leaving the
cars we were received by a long proces
sion of ex-Confederate soldiers, under
command of Major Charles K. McAlpine,
by whom we were escorted through sev
eral of the principal streets to Oxford
Hall. Our march was indeed one of tri
umph. Banners were streched across the
streets, and flags and streamers were
floating in rich profusion in the twilight
breeze, while the verandahs and bal
conies of many houses were hung
with Chinese lanterns. Quite a
uuinbor of hotels and private
houses were illuminated from base
ment to attic, and presented a most
attractive appearance. All this, how
ever, was tamo and uninteresting com
pared to the grand array of female loveli
ness that lined the walks and filled the
windows, stoops and balconies of the
houses. It excelled anythin'g of the kind
we ever before beheld. Little rosy
cheeked girls, fair maidens, lovely young
ladies and gray-haired matrons joined in
giving us a hearty and cordial greeting as
we passed along the streets, amid the
waving of their handkerchiefs and the
bestowal of sweet smiles of welcome,
which almost made us forget the pro
longed cheers and demonstrations of their
husbands, sons and brothers. It was a
reception fit for the conquering legions of
the proudest nation on earth.
On reaching the hall, which was soon
crowded in every part, although it has
two galleries, Major Geo. W. Grice, a
prominent citizen, introduced lion. A. S.
Watts, Mayor of the city, who delivered
an eloquent speech of welcome, to which
Colonel Claiborne Sneed responded ; n a
hearty and appropriate manner. Other
speeches of welcome were made by Capt.
John H. Gayle, Major C. W. Murdaugh
and Col. D. J. Godwin, which were re
sponded to by Private Carter and Capt.
Carroll, of Augusta, Ga., in fitting terms.
Frequent and hearty applause greeted the
kindly sentiments expressed on both sides,
and no one could doubt the sincerity of
the greetings. The stage was handsomely
decorated with flag?, banners, portraits
of Confederate Generals and devices
appropriate to the occasion, while the
galleries were tastefully festooned
with flags. The Marine Band, from
the United States Navy Yard, discoursed
sweet music, and it is also gratifying to
say that not a single speech had a dis
cordant note in it. Union, fraternity,
peace and brotherly love were the key note
of all remarks made. Commodore T. H.
Stevens must have been gratified that his
band and his star-spangled banners were
a part of such a grand union demonstra
tion. A cordial invitation from him was
read for the veterans to visit the navy
yard, which visit we promised to make
profitable and agreeable to them. The
people here are true to the Lost Cause;
yet they cheerfully stand by the Union
and march uuder the “old flag,” as they
already see the dawn of a brighter day
for the long oppressed South.
After adjournment, the veterans were
escorted across the street to Manfrain’s
Hall, where are their headquarters, to.
partake of a collation, and at this hour—
-2 o’clock a. m. —I hear them singing
familiar songs and cheering the im
promptu speeches of the rank and file.
Capt. A. A. Winn, of your city, has done
much to make this occasion one of inter
est to all tho veterans, and he is de
servedly popular with them. But the
mail has closed and I must take this to
the train, and leave other matters for a
future letter. Sidney Herbert.
A Crime for Which There Is No
Name. —A man named George W. Napier
was arrested in St. Louis a few days ago,
charged with kidnapping and ravishing
two little girls, named Ellen and Susan
Murray, aged respectively eleven and nine
years. His preliminary examination
came off to-day, and developed a horrible
state of facts. The little girls testified
that Napier married their mother about
three months ago, aud after living with
her three weeks left her, taking them
with him. Their mother lived at Drer
ronville, Missouri, and from that town
he brought them to St. Louis, stopping
for a few days at a time at several places
on the way. The day after their abduc
tion he outraged both of them, and has
continued to repeat the act up to within
two days ago, when he was arrested.
The testimony showed the most horrible
brutality upon the part of Napier. The
youngest girl is badly injured. The
woman who is taking care of the eldest
girl declares that she is enclente. Napier
was held over for trial by the jury.
A Brooklyn sick girl cleared space
around thirteen ears of green com at one
meal the other day, and. picking the
fragments from between her teeth with a
hair-pin, observed:
“If ever I get well enough again to eat
much, I think I could live on com.”
Another elegy on that noble Cincinnati
jackass that whipped the lioness:
A lioness from Lybia s desert waste
With rattling heels he boldly dared to paste;
She scratched him and the scratches mortified;
In seventeen weeks the little jackass died.
Gone to meet Sergeant Bates.
SHERMAN’S FAME ABROAD.
An Kiflbh Iritlcisnt oi **e Uhninpinii
Vandal—Arnon and Pille Considered
ns Elements of Generalship—Sherman
as a Fishier— His .Success Due to Num
bers Alone.
The London Standard prinks a three
column review of General Sherman s
“Memoirs,” which have been published
in England, in the course of which it says:
The writers who in this coantry have
espoused the Federal cause have labored
to keep out of sight the Northern viola
tions—systematic and deliberate —of all
the laws of war : the wholesale pillage of
private property without a shadow of a
pretence of military need; the wanton
ravage of vast and fertile regions; the
destruction of public archives, of libra
ries, of colleges, and of thousands of
defenseless dwellings; a return, in fact,
to the methods of war (ill usuage of
women excepted) practiced by Tilley.
We know of none who would venture to
defend these acts of illegitimate warfare,
and among the chiefs of the Federal
armies few were more guilty in this re
spect than General W. T. Sherman. We
cannot say that our perusal of the
work has raised our estimate of the
writer. There is a dj:-play of personal
vanity, of anxiety to claim the utmost pos
sible credit, and to throw the blame of all
failures on others, a petulant spirit of ani
mosity against rivals and opponents, and
a controversial tone in regard to passages
creditable neither to the General nor to
his superiors, aud a childish impatience
of popular clamor which appear to us
little consonant with the simple self-re
spect of the soldier. No one could im
agine the Duke of Wellington or Gen.
Lee writing as Sherman writes; no one
has seen anything of the kind from the
pen of officers who have real ground of
complaint—from McClellan, who first
created an army out of a mob of United
States volunteers; or Halleck, who main
tained, recruited and enlarged that army
till it became the irresistible weapon
which won for -Grant and Sherman tri
umphs as easy as those of Achilles in his
impenetrable armor, or of the heroes of
fairy legend with charmed swords aud
shoes of swiftness.
General Sherman had the misfortuue
at Bull Run to share in the signal route
of the Union army. He does bis best
for the reputation of his countrymen by
maintaining that if they bad not run away
the Southerners would —a hypothesis
which is as little supported by the history
of that battle as by the subsequent facts
of the war. He returned to the West,
and for the remainder of the war shared
the fortunes of the Western army, which,
having the least excellent of the Southern
troops and leaders in its front, and being
recruited from among the hardy popula
tion of the Northwest,was able to achieve
much more than the invaders of Virginia,
and really did far more to determine the
issue of the war. General Sherman rose
steadily in military authority and in favor
with the government, and played a promi
nent part in the campaigns which wrested
from the Confederates the command of
the Mississippi, and determined the re
suit of the entire contest. There can be
little doubt that, even after the fall of
Fort Donelson, the triumph of the in
vaders was due to an accident. Had Gen.
A. S. Johnston not been wounded at
Shiloh, or, being wounded, had he had
his wounds at once attended to, and so
saved his life and his control over the
army, Grant w juld have been annihilated,
and all that had been won up to that
time would have been lost in a week. The
rout of the Federal forces was complete,
and, had the Confederate chief pressed
on, they must have surrendered or dis
persed. The transfer of command was
fatal, and next day a new' Federal army
appeared on the field and defeated the
worn-out Confederates. On this, as on
other occasions. Gen. Sherman anxiously
endeavors to overrate the forces opposed
to him. The fact is that when they gave
or invited bat'ie the Confederates were
rarely more than one to two; when they
were forced to b;.Ule they were often one
to three or four, and in Sherman’s later
campaigns, after leaving Atlanta, he had
seldom or never one-fourth of his own
numbers in front. And, as we shall see,
it was to numbers alone that he owed his
success.
The next period, while Sherman occu
pied subordinate but independent com
mands, afforded him opportunity of show
ing the spirit in which he was deter
mined to carry on the struggle, and illus
trated Northern ideas of the laws of
civilized war. Not only did he, like other
Federal chiefs, seize everything that
could be useful to his army and destroy
everything that could be serviceable to
the enemy, but he made a point of con
fiscating and destroying private property
simply on the plea that it belonged to
men who, in the war he was waging, were
loyal to the government under which they
were born and had always lived—the gov
ernment of their State. That he W'as
aware of the illegality of his conduct
is evident from the many paltry and
transparent excuses he made to con
ceal its true character. Thus, at Nash
ville, he gave orders to seize all houses not
occupied, and all house rents due to ab
sentees, evading an open confiscation of
all property belonging to Confederate sol
diers or citizens. But he warned the
people that all who remained would be
considered as having east in their lot with
the invaders, would be liable to be called
out in their service, and forced at their
peril to swear allegiance to the Union ;
and having thus driven every honest
Southerner outside the city, he made their
absence an excuse for robbing them. His
troops systematically stole, pillaged and
ravaged; and, though he professed to
discountenance their conduct, he made
not the shadow of an effort to prevent it.
The savage havoc committed by Sheridan
in the Shenandoah Valley was excused on
the plea that the enemy might draw sup
plies thence—a plea which would justify
invaders, Germans in France or England,
or French in Germany—in destroying all
food within reach of their cav
airy, and dooming millions to star
vation, but which could not excuse
Sheridan in burning houses and furniture
wherever he passed, or his men destroy
ing women’s clothes and forcibly robbing
them of their jewelry. But Sherman’s
proceedings were without any plea of
military advantage. His plea to his own
government was that he desired to make
the rebels feel the miseries of war in
order to compel their submission—a plea
which puts him exactly on a level with
the worst ruffians of the Thirty Years’
War, or with the devastators of the
Palatinate.
To Sherman was entrusted the duty of
following up and destroying the second
army of the South, which, under Joseph
Johnston, was free to move much at its
pleasure; while Grant closed in on the
army of Lee, tethered as it was to Rich
mond, and cut off from all reinforcements
except such as the Carolinas and Virginia
herself could furnish from a nearly ex
hausted population. Both chiefs acted
on the same principle.
Their supply of men was unlimited.
If they could kill r >:± a . Southerner for three
of their own soldiers they must ere loDg
wear out the Confederate forces. And
both fared much alike. Grant.threw him
self, over and over again, upon Lee, and
over and over again was so well beaten
that if the Union forces had been only
double those of the South the spring of
1865 would have seen another invasion of
Pennsylvania. Sherman assailed John
ston somewhat more wisely and wearily,
but with equally little honor. But in
each case the beaten army was so over
whelmingly superior in numbers that it
had only to swing round a part of its
force behind the enemy’s flanks in order
to compel him to retreat. In this way
Lee was forced back into the lines of
Richmond and Petersburg, and Johnston
into those of Atlanta. General Sherman
pretends that though he had at least twice
as many men as Johnston (and, we
may add, ten times as ample sup
plies) • the natural and artificial
strength of Johnston’s positions
was a full compensation. But the
absurdity of this argument is shown in
his own account of his strategy. He
never succeeded by attacking Johnston’s
position in front, but always by fortify
ing a front line against him, holding it
with equal forces, and swinging the other
half of his army round Johnston’s flank
to another position which, if fortified,
would have threatened his communica
tions and so compelled his retreat. It
was simply by dint of superior numbers
that his success was achieved; and it was
impossible for an enemy to make head
against such numbers so used. When,
after long baffling and delaying his oppo
nent, Johnston reached Atlanta, which
he had fortified beforehand, he believed
himself able to hold out indefinitely, as
Wellington at Torres Vedras, against any
attacking force. But before his plan was
fairly tried President Davis, who had
never' appreciated his genius, and had
long protested against his Fabian
strategy, removed him in favor of
Hood, a more impetuous and loss
skilful General. Hood threw away the
advantages which Johnston had prepared.
He fought, was worsted and compelled to
abandon Atlanta, the central point of the
Confederate line of defences, and the
key of Georgia. Then, instead of hold
ing his ground in front of Sherman and
the invading army, he threw himself
across the communications of the enemy
into Tennessee. An enemy thus attacked
may in general be compelled to retire, but
Hood overlooked two material facts.
First, the enemy were able, without
weakening Shermau, to place in Hood's
front, and in defence of the line of com
munication, a force stronger than the
Confederate army; secondly, Sherman
had in front of him an utterly defence
less country, capable of feeding his army
until it should reach anew base on the
seacoast. And this oversight was the
death-blow of the Confederacy—perhaps
we should rather say the coup de grace,
for there was little real hope for the
South after the 3d of July. 1563.
A COAL MINE HORROR.
A Thrilling Siory of a .Mule Boy’s Ad
ventures* in nil Abandoned .Mine.
Duxmore, Pa., July 27,1875. — Through
the brutality of a miner in the employ of
the Pennsylvania Coal Company at this
place a mule boy iu the same mine was
recently put to so terrible an experience
in one of the company’s abandoned mines
that he has become, it is feared, hope
lessly insane, and has been sent to the
lunatic asylum in Danville, Montour
county.
The miner’s name is James Barrett.
The boy is the son of a poor widow, and
although but fourteen years of age, con
tributed largely to her support. His
name is James Gallagher. The man Bar
rett, it seems, was in the habit of abusing
the lad in a most shameful manner, hav
ing no apparent cause save a mere per
sonal antipathy. The boy stood iu mortal
fear of Barrett. A week or so ago the
latter had been tyrannizing over young
Gullagher with move than usual cruelty,
and finally swore that if he did not quit
his sight at once he would kill him, at
the same time running toward the boy
with his pick raised as if to strike him.
Gallagher ran screaming away from his
persecutor, and made directly into the
abandoned chamber, never stopping to
look where he was, in his fright only
thinking of getting out of the reach of
Barrett. After running for some time
the boy stopped, and for the first saw
that he was in the worked-out mine.
Even then terror of his cruel taskmaster
was uppermost iu his mind, and it was
not until the little mine lamD on his cap
began to grow dim and finally went en
tirely out that he awoke to the horror of
his situation.
THE ABANDONED MINE.
If there is a chamber of horrors any
where in the world it is a coal mine that
has been worked out and deserted. Its
labyrinth of silent corridors responds to
the least sound with the most demoniacal
echoes, and noxious gases generate in the
pools of slimy water that exudes from
walls and drips down upon the slippery
floor. Pitfalls filled with water that ac
cumulates without interruption abound
iu these noisome halls, and myriads of
hungry rats, bold and even aggressive,
haunt, the desolate chambers hundreds of
feet below the earth’s surface, and over
all the most oppressive darkness. There
is no darkness like that in a mine. It is
so dense and heavy that one feels its
weight upon him as if he were beneath
fathoms of water, and the eye does not
become accustomed to its pall sufficiently
to penetrate it in the slightest degree.
On every side the constant drip, drip of
the unwholesome water is heard, and the
noise of rats, which frequently displace
some loose bowlder of coal as they
scamper over it, and send it tumbling to
the floor, awaking a thousand horrid
echoes and sending them reverberating
through the deserted chambers.
“help, help.”
It was into such a place as this that
young Gallagher found himself, without
a light, alone and entirely ignorant of the
way out. His first thought was to shout
aloud for help, but the sound of his voice
traversing the devious corridors and yell
ing back to him his cry prolonged and
multiplied a hundred times, as if so many
fiends were mocking his distress, so
frightened the boy that he could not
gather courage to repeat the cry, and he
commenced groping his way along in
silence in the direction he thought most
likely would lead to the entrance of the
mine. He had proceeded some distance
along the slimy wall, when a certain diffi
culty of breathing and choking sensa
tion warned him that he was trespassing
where that greatest of all terrors to the
miner, fire damp, prevailed, and he
hastily retraced his steps, with the in
tention of turning into the first coridor
he came to. It was a long time be
fore he reached one. It turned
ofl to the right, and he entered it
aud followed it for a quarter of an hour,
feeling his way along one side of
it and being careful not to turn into any
of the corridors crossing it, so that -he
might not become confused if circum
stances compelled him to again retrace
his steps. Suddenly, in putting his foot
forward he found no rest for it, and, be
fore he could recover his balance, he fell
headlong into a pit. His head came in
contact with one side of the excavation.
He attempted to regain his feet, but he
was overcome with a sense of numbness,
and fell back into the slime and ooze that
covered the jagged bottom of the pit.
How long he lay there unconscious the
boy did not know. He came to himself
with a knowledge of a peculiar pain in
his fingers and toes. At first he did not
realize where he was, but the inptnetrable
darkness and cold, damp atmosphere soon
recalled his situation. He drew up his
hands and feet to make an effort to arise,
when an army of rats scampered away
from about him. Theyran over his body
and trailed their long, slimy tails in his
face. He sprang up with a shriek of ter
ror that again started the blood-curdling
echoes through the chamber.
ATTACKED BY BATS.
From the feeling of his hands and feet
Gallagher knew that the rats had been
gnawing at his flesh, but he did not stop
to make any investigation until he es
caped from the pit and was again on his
way back to the place whence he had
started. To get out of the pit he found
no easy task. Twice he clambered up its
jagged sides until he almost reached the
top, and as many times fell back to the
bottom. The third time trying was suc
cessful, and fie drew himself out ex
hausted aud fainting. He lay down on
the floor of the con-icier for several min
utes before he had strength to proceed,
and then gathered himself up and hurried
away from the spot v hich was so full of
terrors to him. "When he reached the
first cross conidor he sat down on a jut
ting piece of coal, aud for the first time
found that the rats had gnawed two of
his fingers to the bone; had eaten away
the uppers of his shoes and the flesh of
his two great toes. He had often heard
old miners relate over their lunch in the
dismal chamber the experience of men
lost in mines and attacked by rats, and
now the reality of the thing nearly over
came him with its horror, and he almost
swooned at the thought of what he had
passed through and what he might yet be
doomed to experience. To add to the
terrible situation of the poor lad, hunger
began to make itself manifest, and the
tortures of thirst were beginning to
afflict him. As was the case with the
Ancient Mariner, there was
Water, water everywhere,
But not a drop to drink.
From the fact that he was growing so
hungry and thirsty Gallagher judged that
he had been a long time in the mine. Up
to this time he had been confident that he
would be able to find his way out of the
old mine in the course of a few hours,
but now hope seemed to be leaving him.
He conjured up pictures of his mother
waiting for him to come home at night,
of her anxiety at his tardiness and then
her uncontrollable grief at the news of
his loss. Then his mind dwelt on the
horrors of a death by starvation or suffo
cation in the mine, and the sickening
thought that he was followed by a horde
of ravenous rats that were ready to make
food of him even before he was dead.
These thoughts almost drove him crazy,
and he aroused himself, determined to
make another effort to escape from the
mine. He followed one of the cross cor
ridors and wandered about in the maze of
chambers for hours. Once he thought
he heard his name called and he shouted
in reply, only to hear it repeated for
many minutes by the demon echoes.
the light of the seabchebs.
While wandering about in this way, a
prey to the tortures of hunger and thirst,
and to both mental and physical agony,
he saw a light flash for an instant across
the corridors in which he was groping.
It was a long way off, but he knew it was
a miner’s lamp, and felt, that parties were
searching through the deserted chambers
for him. Regardless of the hard, jagged
floor, the strong walls, the ever-accom
panying throng of rats that kept in his
rear, or dangerous pits that might lie
ahead of him, he ran rapidly toward
where he had seen the light, shouting
until he was hoarse.
. “This way ! Here lam ! Here lam !
This way. for God’s sake ! ”
The echoes took up the cry and carried
it through the noisome avenues, lifted it
up to the roof of the cerulean vault, and
repeated it until it.died away m a wail of
agouy; but the bearer of the light did
not hear it in the course he had taken,
aud the almost exhausted boy, footsore
and bruised by frequeut falls ou the hard,
rough mine floor, hurried on in the sub
terranean labyrinth. Suddenly, in turn
ing the angle of one of the corridors, a
light again flashed upon his sight, and
then another aud another. A voice
shouted a prolonged call:
“J-a-m-e-8 G-a-11-a-g-h-e-r! H-e-1-
l-o-o-o-o, Jimmy!’’
The inevitable echoes had scarcely taken
up the cry when the boy returned the
call with all his soul iu his voice:
“.Here lam ! Come this way!”
His answer was heard, and iu a few
moments sturdy miners had found the
boy. But he did not know that he was
rescued. He had fallen to the ground
unconscious, his strength having gone
out with his last wild cry. He was soou
taken out into the pure air, where his
frantic mother and the most of the village
had assembled to await the result of the
search. The people were wild when it
was announced that the boy was found,
and his brave rescuers were borne aloft by
the crowd. It was a long time before
young Gallagher was restored to cons
ciousness, and then it was ouly at inter
vals that he was in his right mind. Iu
these sane intervals he related the story
of his fearful sufferings, aud learned that
he had been nearly two days aud one
long night wandering among the horrors
of the mine. His lucid spells lasted but
a short time,when he would be seized
with frantic rayings, in which he would
plaintively beg of Barrett not to hurt
him, and then shriek.
“The rats are eating me up ! Drive
them away! Drive them away !”
The moments in which he was sane
became less frequent, and finally days
passed without one gleam of reason
lighting up the darkness of his mind.
The surgeons found it necessary to ampu
tate one hand aud three toes that had
been gnawed by the rats, and to perform
other painful operations to save the boy’s
life. One day last week, his physical
condition being such as to permit it, they
decided that he must be taken to an
asylum for mental treatment, and ex
pressed grave doubts of his permanent
recovery. The brute Barrett, when the
result of his cruelty became known, was
compelled to fly the place in the night to
escape the fury of the exasperated popu
lace, and personal effects left by him
were burned, as an expression of the in
dignation of the people against him.
Southern Women 11ml Men.
From a recent letter, written by Miss
Constance Fenimore Woolson, while ou a
trip through the South, to the Cleveland
Herald, we quote the following:
You can tell a Southern girl at once.
She is rounder than her Northern sisters;
indeed, she is never thin or lank; she
walks with a languid step, and all her
movements are slow and indolent; she is
never alert. She has fine soft eyes, with
a serene expression, very different from
the quick, keen eyes of the North; she
has not the beautiful red and white com
plexion of New York and New England,
rather is she sallow, with few rose
tints; you might call her cream
color. She never looks anxious, no
matter what happens; she does not think
she can help matters by her advice or in
terference, but sits back calmly and leaves
everything to “Brother,” or” “Pa,” pro
nouncing the latter word in a way I defy
a Northern girl to imitate. The word
might be used as a shibboleth; it is not
exactly “pay,” but half way between that
and the sound of “a” in “cat.” Our
Southern girl dresses picturesquely rather
than trimly, and has brighter colors and
more floating ends and curls about
her than a Northern belle allows. She
has pretty, plump hands, but she is not
particular about the gloves that cover
them—l mean particular compared
with Fifth avenue rules. In short,
she is a more voluminous sort of a
girl in every way, and cares less about
“the fashion.” She has one decided
advantage over the Northern girls, how
ever, and that is her voice; it is sweeter
and lower, a little trainante, perhaps, but
essentially gentle and womanly. I can
not speak so highly of the Southern men,
the young men of to-day. They do not
seem to know exactly what they repre
sent. Tliej’ have neither the calm cer
tainty of importance possessed by the old
time Southerner, nor the bright, active
energy and ambition of the young North
erner. They are either swept down, be
wildered by the stream, or else having
drifted ashore in some little bay, they sit
on the bank, and talk about their ances
tors. A younger race is growing up,
however, with ideas -more adapted to the
times.
Suicide of a Goveknment Clebk. —
About five o'clock Saturday afternoon
James M. Lyons, a clerk in the Surgeon-
General’s office, committed suicide at his
residence on I street, between 13 th and
14th streets northeast, by taking two
ounces of laudanum. After receiving his
pay for the month of July on Friday last
he went to Baltimore,and while there pur
chased the laudanum, and returned on
Saturday, shortly before committing the
act, very much under the influence of
liquor. Taking a seat on the sofa, he
took the vial from his pocket, and asked
his wife, who was beside him, “Shall I
take this ? ” As on previous occasions
he had threatened, when in liquor, to
take his life, she regarded it as
mere idle drunken talk, and simply
remarked, “You are not going to
make a fool of yourself.” lie then
drank about half the poison, when she
attempted to get the vial away from him,
but he seized her with one hand, and
holding her off, drained tbe vial of its
contents. He then laid down, and was
soon asleep, his wife thinking that what
he had taken was a simple narcotic. A
short time thejpafter Mrs. Lyons noticed
that he was turning black iu the face, and
called in some of the neighbors, who
endeavored to wake him up, using anti
dotes, but without success. A physician
was sent for, but before his arrival Mr.
L. was dead. Dr. Patterson, the Coroner,
held an inquest yesterday morning, and
the jury rendered a verdict that deceased
came to his death from an overdose of
laudanum, administered by himself while
under the influence of intoxicating drink.
He leaves a wife and four small children,
three his own and one adopted. His
widow is an invalid, and in indigent cir
cumstances. — Washington Star.
A Sponge Bath. —A fat-looking, bald
headed, lobster-colored German in shirt
sleeves, appeared irr the hallway of m
Adams street bathing establishment, ad
dressing a loose-jointed individual with
wet stringy hair, about noon yesterday:
“Holt on von minud,” called out the
first described, “you can no go out dese
blace so you not bay me fur dat bat.”
“Pay for that bath,” exclaimed the
other in apparent astonishment, “who
said anything about paying ?”
“I say sometings ’bout dot.”
“You do ?"
“Yaw, I say you must pay me for dot
bat.”
“You said it would cost nothing,” said
the wet-haired man.
“Noddings!” echoed the bath-keeper,
“I no say such a dings.”
“What’s that readin’ on your sign,
then ?” inquired the disputant.”
“Dot sign reats ; ‘Turkish bats, sul- j
phur bats, vapor bats and sponge bats,’ ” I
replied the man of the lobster com
plexion.
“Well,” said the other, as he edged
away, “that last’s it; bein’s I didn’t have
any money, I took a sponge bath.”
The Teuton fell to studying his sign,
while his meandered toward the
City Hall, but when at last he looked up,
he had resolved to strike “sponge baths”
off his list. — Chicago Post and Mail.
A visitor to a Sunday school picnic
near Albany (let us say Troy), found a
pompous man, who was an ex-sheriff, and
who seemed to be a sort of “king bee”
among the people, superintending all the
arrangements. Large tables were spread
and loaded with an abundance of good
things. As soon as everything was nearly
ready for the feast, a number of children
“went in,” when the ex-sheriff howled
out: “Hold on, you d—n hogs, will
you ?” Then in a milder tone 3aid to one
of the ministers present: “Brother
■, will you ask a blessing ?”■ — In
dianapolis Hews.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Summary of flic Week’s Dispatches
FROM ST. MARK’S.
(.Special Telegram to tbe Morning News.]
Tallahassee, Fla., August 4.
The schooner Dill arrived at St. Mark’s
from New Orleans on Sunday. Before
sailing, a man from Barrancas, Florida,
got on at New Orleans, intending to work
his passage to St. Mark's. On Friday he
took sick, and died on Saturday morning
with yellow fever. The Captain threw
the body and all effects overboard. The
Dell anchored iu Spauish Hole, below St.
Mark s. Dr. Randolph went down
quaranli -d the vessel. There is no
other sickness ou board. The man who
died was a brother-in-law of John W.
Butler, of Milton. This is all there is
about the stories of yellow fever at St.
Mark's.
THE WESTERN FLOODS.
Jacksonville, 111.. August 3. —The
damage to crops, bridges aud railroads in
Central Illinois is immense. The loss is
estimated at one million of dollars. That
of Morgan county alone is a quarter of a
million of dollars.
Cincinnati, August 3.—A special from
Chillieotlie says the rains continue and the
floods gain strength. A canal broke be
low the city and swept five thousand bush
els of wheat into the river. The people
living ou the bottom lands are moving
their families, fearing an inundation. At
Ironton the Ohio is rising five inches per
hour. It is also rising rapidly at Cincin
nati, where it has already invaded the
lower stories on Water street aud bids
fair to go as high as ever known before.
A special from New Albany says trains
ou the New’ Albany and Chicago Railroad
were taken off to-day at Gosport. The
track is covered from White river, a dis
tance of thirty miles. A heavy force of
men is at work trying to prevent the
large railroad bridge from floating aw’ay.
White river at this point is twelve feet
higher than was ever known. Trains
south from Lafayette go no farther than
Crawfordsville. The track is washed out
in many places.
A special from Athens, Ohio, says that
at midnight the river attained a height of
within eight inches of the greatest eleva
tion known. The gas works are flooded.
The people of the asylum across the
valley have built a boat, and ferry pro
visions over. No trains are running.
There have been no mails since Saturday.
Terse Haute, August 3. —The Wabash
is a few’ inches higher thau the great in
undation of 1828. The river is three
miles wide opposite the city, and slowly
swelling. We shall have no intercourse
iu any direction, aud no mails for four
days at least, there being no less thau
thirty bridges, besides trestles aud em
bankments, completely gone.
Cincinnati, August s.—The water is
invading the cellars on Broadway, Syca
more, Main, Walnut aud Vine streets up
as far as Second street. *
A dispatch from Terre Haute says the
Wabash river is steadily falling. Rail
ways have began transferring passengers
ind mails, and it is thought they can get
through to-morrow. At Seymour the
Ohio and Mississippi Railroad bridge is
gone, and there are several w’ash-outs ou
that road besides. This city appears to
be the centre of the storm, extending
about one hundred miles in each direc
tion. The total damage to railroads, to
crops and private property in this Con
gressional district is estimated at $lO,-
000,000.
Memphis, August 5. —Heavy rains pre
vail. The plantations ou islands No. 10
and 35 are submerged. At New Madrid
the flood is running through the sunken
land to St. Francis valley. The river
here is rising steadily and encroaching on
the exposed plantations. The crevasse
at DeSoto Front is repaired. A dispatch
from Pine Bluff says the river rose six
iuches this morning, within four feet of
high water. A telegram from Little Rock
reports another rise of twenty-five feet.
A HEAVY STRIKE.
Fall River, August 3. —About one
thousand five hundred operatives of this
city are idle, and probably will be for
thirty’ days, although rumors prevail that
work will be resumed in a week. There
is a great deal of dissatisfaction among
the help, and many are willing to work,
including a good part 6f the spinners
who he retofore have acted almost as a
unit. How long the mills will remain
closed it is impossible to say, and manu
facturers say they do not know them
selves. One thing that will influence
things very much will be the operatives
who are opposed to a strike and willing
to work at a reduction. Should there be
a lock-out many storekeepers have given
notice that if help can afford a vacation
of thirty days they can afford to pay cash
for goods. No credit will be given until
they get to work. Every mill is stopped
with the exception of the Stafford, which
will soon close.
THE BEECHER BUSINESS.
New Yobk, July 3. —Mr. Morris, coun
sel for Tilton, says tbut undoubtedly the
new trial will be short, as they propose
now to try Beecher for adultery, as he
has been tried on several outside collat
eral Morris says there is testi
mony of great importance which will
materially alter the complexion of things,
and which will prove Mr. Beecher guilty.
General Pryor says the three leading wit
nesses for Tilton in the next trial will be
Lees, the druggist, Henry G. Bowen, and
Joseph Richards, Mrs. Tilton’s brother.
New York, August 3.— Tilton’s lawyers
have served notice of new trial on
Beecher’s lawyers.
THE BLACK HILLS.
New York, August 4. —A dispatch from
the Black .Hills country says: “General
Crook in his order directing the miners
to leave August the 15th, suggests that
they assemble at the military post about
to be established at Camp Harney on
French Creek, on or before August 10th,
and there hold a meeting and take such
steps as may seem best to them, by
organization and the drafting of proper
resolutions, to secure to each when the
country shall have been opened the
benefit of the discoveries and labor he
has already expended.
THE ALABAMA ELECTION.
Montgomery, August 4.—The returns
come in slowly, but enough is known to
render it reasonably certain that the con
stitutional convention has been called by
at least fifteen thousand majority. Datus
E. Coon, who issued an address to the
people, favoring Congressman White’s
force bill, received but seven votes in his
own city, out of two thousand four hun
dred polled, eighteen hundred of which
were Republican. Many leading Repub
licans supported Colles. Several Repub
lican counties have given majorities for
the convention.
BEECHER.
New York, August 4.— lt is stated that
the notice of trial served on Beecher’s
lawyers by Tilton’s lawyers is purely a
formal notice. It is said it does not in
dicate necessarily that anew trial will be
pressed. It is a pro forma document,
drawn up and served because the last trial
did not result in a verdict.
Johnson’s obsequies.
Greenville, August 3.— A1l Mr. John
son’s children are present except Mrs.
Brown, who remains with her mother,
who, it is feared, will not long survive
the shock of Mr. Johnson’s death. The
coffin bears a silver plate with the in
scription, “Andrew Johnson, aged G 7.”
THE LOST BALLOON EES.
Chicago, August B.—A bottle with the
following card was picked up on the lake
shore: “July IC, 2 a. m.—We cannot stay
up more than an hour longer, as the gas
is rapidly escaping. U. S. G.” This Bate
is that of the night on which the balloon
sailed.
WADDY.
Memphis, July 3. —The jury disagreed
in the Uhompson case and were dis
charged Judge Flippen regarded the
former bond of SIO,OOO as good and un
forfeited, but added $9,000, which has
not yet been given.
FROM TEXAS.
Galveston, July 3. —Fifty-one voting
precincts show a small majority in favor
of a Constitutional Convention. The
vote was light.
ALABAMA OOTTON.
Montgomery, August 4.—The first bale
of the new crop has been received. The
first bale last year was received on the
11th.
DEATH of a poet.
Copenhagen, August 4.—Kaus Chris
tian Andersen, tfle poet and novelist,died
aged seventy.
the oobn crop.
London, August 3.— The Mark Lane
Express, in its weekly review of the corn I
trade, says the cereal crop just reaching
maturity has been saved by flue weather !
We may yet have a moderate harvest ii,"
good order. The upward movement has
stopped, and prices have relapsed, partly
in consequence of foreign arrivals, which
are unusually free; but current rates
scarcely reach the average, and are still
below those of last year. The harvest
in France is progressing rapidly, but the
general reports indicate less than a fair
average yield, although in Paris and Mar.
seilles prices have fallen two shillings
The Belgian and German markets show a
similar change. The accounts of tin
crops in Austria and Hungary show that
there is more likelihood of a deficiency
thau a surplus.
china and japan.
San Francisco, August s.—Arrived
' steamer City of Peking, from Hong Kong
! July 10th, from Yokohama the 18th’
There had been renewed assaults on for
eigners in Peking. The last attack was
made on an attache off the German lega
tion, who, while on a scientific expedition
with some companions forty miles from
the capital, was severely beaten ami
robbed of valuable astronomical instru
ments.
Negotiations between Japan aud Corea
have assumed a less frieudly character
than before, aud many Japanese officials
have, been recalled from that country.
rumor of impending war is prevalent, but
thus far there has been no such decision
by the Japanese Government.
THE MISSISSIPPI DEMOCRATS.
Jackson. August 4.— -The Democratic
Couveutiou was the largest since 1801.
Lamar addressed the meeting at length.
H. C. Hemeugway was nominated for
Treasurer. The platform is mainly cou
fined to State affairs. It recognizes to a
full extent the social (?) aud political
equality of all men, and asks the aid aud
assistance of all the voters of all parties
and of both rnces for the establishment
of good government. After the appoint
ment of the Executive Committee the
Couveutiou adjourned.
dead.
New York, August 3.—Alexander Ham
ilton, son of the great statesman, is dead,
aged ninety.
FROM KENTUCKY.
.Louisville, August 3.—As far as heard
from McCreery’s majorities are greater
than Leslie’s in 1871.
Tiie Livery of Heaven—What was
Found on the Person ot a Thief.
[From the Kalamazoo Gazette.]
On Tuesday afternoon Sheriff Blauey
had a most remarkable chase after a thief.
A fellow from the couutry had bought a
suit of clothes aud gouo to the Grand
Rapids and Indiana Railroad depot pre
paratory to taking the train. Having oc
casion to step out he left the bundle iu a
seat. He was no sooner out of sight
thau John Howell, a moulder, picked it
up and lit out of the back door, closely
followed by the young man owning it.
The race continued up the track to near
the round house. The thief continuing
to gain all tbe time, the pursuer gave
up the chase, returned to the depot and
reported the caso to Sheriff Blaney,
who happened to be there. Denis Hall,
who had jnstcome in with the local freight,
took Mr. Blaney up the track ou the
engine to where the man was soen to go
into the woods back of the fair grounds.
A thorough search was made, but no
trace of the mau was found, and Mr.
Blaney returned to the depot. A short
time after he arrived there word was sent
him by Pete Sanford that the man lmd
just come out of a cornfield. So Mr.
Blaney started on the chase a second
time, the rain pouring down in torrents
The trail of the man was soon struck,
aud then commenced one grand chase,
through swauips, creeks, marshes, scrub
brush, patches of nettles, etc. The fel
low was so closely pushed that he finally
swam the river. Mr. Blauey then took
the buggy which he had ordered Sanford
to follow him with, aud drove around
across the river aud came upon his man
near Comstock. In the meantime, the
fellow had put on the new clothes svud
buttoned up his old coat over them. 110
was brought to town, and on his person
were found a Bible with W. II Stowe
marked in it, aud several letters. Among
others, two from the Rev. A. Byers, < f
Comstock, who gave him a'letter of
recommendation to a widow in Indiana,
with un idea of marriage. Also one t.
the Itev. Mr. Miller, of the Young Mm
Christian Association of Cincinnati, ’ll!
this letter Mr. Byers says, “That the
bearer, Brother John Howell, has been
with us about six weeks, ami during that
time, I believe, he has not missed on<
prayer meeting, and on the Sabbath ho
has been in his place in the Sabbath
school, and more public worship. ”
More of the New York Banditti.
The New York brigands are still on
their travels, and appear to have an easy
thing as far as they have got in Penusyl
vania. The band was for a long time
engaged in working the rural districts,
back counties and small towns of New
York, before it started on its starring tour
in the provinces. Pennsylvania was the
nearest province to the brigands’ original
field of operations, and hunted out of
New York they sought the nearest and
next richest commonwealth. Their
career in the Keystone State has so
far been altogether successful aud
free from any unpleasant accident.
Thej have burglarized aud robbed a largo
number of villagers aud farm houses,and
have been obliged to murder but one
man. Him they killed on the. highway,
apparently to try tlieir hand at this most
daring industry. It is the only killing
recorded against them. Highway rob
bery was a recent afterthought. These
banditti carry on burglary by wholesale.
They think nothing of going through
half a dozen houses in one night in the
same town. The next day they are off for
another objective point. They have conic
down on quiet and Quakcrly Pennsylvania
like the Assyrian iu the song, and the
people are so astonished that they have
not been able to think of any means to
intercept their progress. Tearing up
railroad tracks to stop trains is iu their
line of effort, and one railroad has offered
a thousand dollars for their apprehension!
But their strategy is Napoleonic, awl
they turn up in the most unexpected
places, by dint of rp.pid marches.
It has not yet been reported that
they have made ary great amount of
money by any of their ventures. * Such a
statement would probably be good news
and raise the hope that they might soon
get enough to quit the business. But
they are as numerous as the James aud
the Younger boys aud several other
families combined, and it will take a long
time to gather enough money to satisfy
them at their present rate of making it.
In one case a lady came upon one of
them face to face in her pailor. lie
broke-for the window and broke the
window in his flight. Thev work in
broad baylight as often as at dead of
night.
The wife of a Troy clergyman recently
died after being insane over twenty years.
At various times she remarked to her hus
band that she would put away some
money for him, so that he would not
starve when he became old and feeble.
He missed money many times, but dared
not say anything to his wife, as she fre
quently attacked him with a carving
knife. A few days ago some little girls
were emptying out bureau-drawers in the
house, when they found a little linen bag
containing a number of bills. The
search was prosecuted to a further extent
and over fifty of the little bags were
found, some in forgotten corners, others
in barrels of old rubbish, and in many
other places. About eight hundred dol
lars altogether was found, three hundred
and fifty of which was in old city bank
bills. The deceased had evidently been
hoarding the money for about fifteen
years, as some of it was dated as long
ago as that. The husband was overjoyed
at the discovery, and is still searching to
find the extent of his deceased wife’s
legacy.
When he came home to supper, his
wife said: “ George, this is my uncle,
Mr. Walker, from Brooklyn. Mr. Walker,
will you ask the blessing ? ” Mr. Walker
asked the blessing. George ate sparingly,
seemed to be uneasy, and finally muttered
to himself, “He asks the blessing, andl
he came from Brooklyn. He may be •
minister.” After that he didn’t say much,
but just neglected his business for three
or four days, and remained around home
until Mr. Walker was gon e.—Chicago
Journal.
The Newbury port Herald says the fur
niture business is more deeply depressed
than any other in New England, and fac
tories are suspending on all hands.
