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*aanu#h Wtefelu ©tuts '" TI MIA\ , NKI'TK.MHKK 11, 1574. " ■■—‘j \% _ ■ •cwcmmoMib •*! N, anp Yf tar #2 OO ‘Pkly N'-w., <S|* l|oniHa | OO Thrre >lonlh> jo -lily New*, one year, $lO 00; six month*, * ' HI: “* month*. U Mi. n- iH-kly New*, one year, ff> 00; *ix month*, * : ll, rec month*, ft Mi. A I subscription* payable In advance, l’apcra I _ ruli! ftr,! "topped at the expiration of the time I ’*" 1 lor wlUioot further notice. Sutmcriher* will t ■ J observe the date* on their wrapper*. aovkktiskhknts. ■l' ARK i* ten measured line* of Nonpareil ,)f t k Wkrki.t New*. insertion, |1 no per nqnare. Liberal rate* made With contract advertiser*. oonaaxroN deuce. orreapondeuce solicited; but to receive atten on, fetter* must la; accompanied by a responai "aoie, not tor publication, bat a* a guarantee * #?oon faith. All letter* should be addre**e<] io J. 11. KSTILL, Savannah, Oa. I lit* Nfininolf Negroes Contomplated Outrage ou thf People of Florid*. I he peaceful citizens of our sister State of Florida will he surprised to learn by the Washington telegram, published in our issue of yesterday, that they are shortly to have foisted on them a colony of savages who, while adding noth ing to the wealth or industry of the com monwealth, will very materially swell that largo duns of negro desjjeradoes which new infesta various portions of the Suta. The dispatch to which we allude ei'Utaiiu and the synopsis of a letter from one Colonel Hatch to the War Depart ment, in which he recommends that the •“ i o>es formerly owned by the Beminole Indians he returned to Florida, jxom ■'frtStrih'Rhßc ffiey formeriytnifliff TM* recommendation we look upon as nothing n-HH than an outrage upon the people of Florida. It does not need Col. Hatch’s own cool confession that if these negroes are not provided for, “they will return to Mexico, go to the mountains below San Carlos, about otto hundred and lifty miles west of the ltio Grande, depredate on the ranches of Texas, und furnish an asylum for deserters from this frontier,” to show the character of the banditti whom it is thus proposed to turn loose in Florida. Kneli a (Imposition of tlieHe negro sav ages and outlaws, even if there is any law authorizing it, which we doubt, would be a disgrace to the government and a monstrous outrage on the white people of Florida. Col. Hatch speaks of these negroes ns formerly slaves of tho Seminole Indians. This is a gross mis representation of their previous status. At tho time of Ihe settlement of the Hi minolcH on the reservation in Florida, assign' l to them by tho government, there were a few families among them who claimed to own slaves. These were, however, very few in number, and their iluvery was only nominal. In time the number of these negroes in the nation w ,! re greatly increased by runaway uo- of tho most desperate character i 'in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, and oven more distant Koutli ei'ii States. Those runaways,many of them ■ H viet from the jails and penitentiaVios, were received and harbored by tho In diatm, i>r rather tho Indian negroes among them. A few months sufficed for t ito licquiro the habits and costume ol the in linns, and oven to forget their own language), if they did not learn to talk Indian, ho that it was next to impos sible tor their owners or their agents to identify thorn. As they increased in numbers they were finally gathered into a town by Abraham, an artful and .am bitious old negro who had long been em ployed by the United States Government as Indian interpreter. This old rascal grew m importance as his town of rate lush* grew in numbers, and assuming the rank of a chief ho exerted groat influ ence with the Indians. 11 is negroes did most of the stealing for the nation, in return for which tho Indians protected them whenever an attempt was made to reclaim them by their owners or the officers of the law, which they had out rai;< and by setting up a claim of ownership, thus converting tho Indian reservation into a rede/.vous for runaway negro thieves and murderers. Their constant depreda tions in the white settlements and the obstacles interposed by tho Indians to their capture atul punishment were among the causes which induced tho peo ple of Florida to uvgo upon tho govern ment the removal of tho Indians. It was found by Colonel Gadsden, tho oommis sioner, while negotiating the treaty at Payne’s Landing for tho removal of tho Indians, that Abraham and his negroes were generally averse to the proposed re moval, and it was only after pointing out to Abraham tho utter impossibility of his being permitted to continue his reudez- Jvous in Florida for negro runaways and 'criminals, and the proposition of a liberal bribe, with the promise that his negroes Should bo transported to Texas, on the same terms and with tho same outfit as the Indians, t hat he ceased his opposition and favored the treaty which was finally consummated. It was mainly to get rid of these negro outlaws, thieves and mur derers that tho removal of the Indians was urged by the people of Florida. When the time came for removal they were as violently opposed to complying with tho treaty as the Indians, nnd it is well known that to the influence of Abra ham and bis black banditti the bloody massacres and the protracted and expen sive war that followed are mainly to bo attributed. It is notorious that King Abraham and his black warriors took a promi nent part in the war. and that many of the bloodiest massacres of white families, of women and children, were their acts. Their knowledge of the set tlements from which they had escaped enabled tbuin to penetrate to within a few miW-s of Tallahassee, where the most rttvage murders were perpetrated. One of the only two survivors of the Dade >uassiieTo related to us that when the en ire command had been shot down, and ay piled as they fell in their small tri angular breastwork, after the Indians had retired from the scene, forbearing to scalp or even to plunder their victims, the black fiends who were with them re turned, and crawling upon their hands and knees over the dead and dying with horrid imprecatiocs cut the throats of all the unfortunates who by moan or movement showed that they were still alive. At the close of the war the remnant of the Semimries with King Abraham and his black savages were transported by the government to the country set apart for them beyond the Sabine, in Texas. The proposition now is to transport these wretches back to Florida and incor porate them with the people of that State. We repeat that such a disposi tion of them would be a most wanton and unjustifiable outrage, against which the people have a right to protest, au outrage which we doubt not the people of Massachusetts, with all their loyalty and philanthropy, would resist. In justification of his benevolent scheme, Col. Hatch states that “there is much good land still vacant” in Florida. If thero is “much good land” in Florida still vacant, which we are strongly in i dined to doubt, we have no hesitation in Laying that the government can find not J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR, only within the limits of that State, but in the States of the North, white men, as well as colored, quite as needy’ and much more deserving than the restless vagabonds whom Col. Hatch has recom mended to its charity. The presence of these negro Indian desperadoes in Florida, while it would endanger the peace of the com munity, would have a tendency to most effectually check immigration from the North, for there are but few people who are willing to trust them selves and their families within reach of a community of savage vagabonds whose willingness to rob and to depredate is vouched for by Col. Hatch himself. The people of Florida, white and black, should unite in an earnest and resolute protest against the quartering of these barbarians in their midst, for which we believe the government has no lawful authority. In our opinion the govern ment Las no more right to colonise these Indian negro"* “u: taxed” in the State of Florida, *bus ' them citizens and voters in *at Stats, ii. ■; *rg-[ to brings similar colony from the \nV, , of Africa and make them eitizenH of Massachusetts, or any other State of this Union. The Seminole negroes should be allowed to remain where the government located them years ago, or if they must emigrate or starve, let them go to some region where they will not interfere with white civilization, and where the climate is more congenial for land-pirates and thieves. The Tramp Nuisance. Every paper from the North and East contains accounts of outrages and even murders in those sections by the class of persons known as “tramps,” and in Maine it is even said that the people are pur chasing firearms with which to protect themselves against the attacks of this new class of American bummers. In this section we have large numbers of idle white men, but thus far none of them have developed into even a feeble imitation of the New England nuisance. The great Southern tramp is the negro, who knows by instinct all the cow paths and blind roads, and who is protected and upheld by his own race in whatever he does. In his midnight wanderings he raids upon the fields, barns, smoke-houses and chicken-coops of the white people, and not infrequently varying the monotony of his journeyings with at tempts at incendiarism and rape. If these crimes are committed in a community or neighborhood where the nogro element predominates, to attempt an arrest is to incite a riot, and the en tire white portion of the community must stand to their arms ready to resist any threatened outbreak. Iu tho loyal State of Maine, however, the white man who demands bread is to be shot down. Our fellow-citizens at the North and East may thank themselves that they are not subjected to the experiences of the Southern people in this respect. If Northern communities are exposed to robbery and outrage, it is to be hoped that there is no class of their population who are m opeu sympathy with anil ready to protect the perpetrators. The Outlook fob Cotton. —The New York Bulletin of Monday says: “The speculative element has such a control ling influence upon this market it is diffi cult to induce dealers to express a de cided opinion as to tho future. There are, of course, to be expected the usual dealings in contracts, reaching greater or less proportions, as monetary causes may warrant, but the movement of bona fide cotton seems to be very dimly foreshad owed, .lust at the moment, stocks arc very much reduced and assortments greatly broken, with interest shown by both exporters and spinners. The prob ability is, that nearly all that can bo of fered during the next month will be wanted, though reoent fractional addi tions to cost have induced greater caution in the demand. The probable value and ready sale of the new crop, however, are so entirely problematical that we find none of the leading members of the trade willing to express a positive opinion on the subject. It appears to be conceded, however, that nothing but a low cost will attract attention, and, even then, only to the extent of immediate consumptive wants, both at homo and abroad. Spin ners, it is claimed, must see the goods market in b etter shape before buying with their old freedom ; and, as this im provement does not indicate itself as yet, while the crop prospects are very flatter ing, the current opinion, as near as we can catch it, is that it will be well into tbe next cotton year before much busi ness can be accomplished outside the speculative manipulations.” General Spinner Wants to Stump Ohio. — It is related of General Spinner that before he left Washington for his home in New York ho said to a friend, with au emphasis peculiar to the ex- Treasurer, that he only wished he could be a Democrat during the Ohio campaign, take the stump and tell the people what he thinks of the conduct of the adminis tration on the currency question. “But,” said his friend, “your remarks would be attributed to prejudice.” “Not if I tell all I know,” replied the General, lie alluded to the abuse heaped upon Secretary Richardson for putting out a little silver in lieu of fractional currency; but now when it was proposed to force it on the market, the plan was applauded as a great scheme. “Yes,” said the bluff old cerebus, “the poor people shall have silver, the rich gold, and the nation be further oppressed with taxation to pay the bonded indebtedness. D—n such a party.” Morton. —This pitiable wreck of hu manity spoke in Portland Wednesday evening. He undertook to present the pending issues before the country. Here is what he says the Democrats propose to do: First, there is the pensions to rebel soldiers. When they get power do you think they will pay pensions to those who crippled their own men, and leave their own to suffering and distress ? Then their war claims. When they get power will they pay Northern claims and not pay for their own property destroyed ? And lastly, payment for their slaves.’ In ventories have been made in every case, and they are confident that the time will. come when they will receive it, and the Democratic party in Maine is in favor of it. Morton is a liar, and should have been told so on the spot. Civility is a good thing in season, but it is not best to waste any of it upon Morton. He is a moral and social outlaw, and should be treated as such .—MatichesUr (AT. H.) Union. -1 r • V- • %■'* - ? - 'jyvfe - ' The T rial of the > egro I nsHirectionists. By the telegram from our special cor respondent at Sanders ville, it will be seen that the Grand Jury has found true bills against the following negroes, charged with being engaged in an attempted in surrection in Washington county: Rev. Corday’ Harris, Gen. Joseph Morris, Asa Gilmore, Gen. Priuee 11. Rivers, ofSoutb Carolina, Capt. Francis Murki.son, Neal Houston and Rev. Jerry Simmons. A demurrer in general terms to the indict ment was plead by Ex-C. S. Attorney General Akennan, which was overruled by His Honor Judge Johnson, who or dered the Sheriff to have a sufficient panel of jurors in readiness to proceed with the trial to day. We are assured that the grand jury is composed of intelligent, upright and conscientious citizens, who, in strict ac cord with the impartial, eloquent and impressive charge of Judge Johnson, have discharged their sworn duty without passion or prejudice. We are gratified to learn that the prisoners arc ably de icixcUfC* that in tHidiiioii to Mr, AJr pvfruti * The high character of the presiding Judge, both as a man and a jurist, is sufficient guarantee that they will be accorded a fair and impartial trial, and that their acquittal or conviction will de pend upon the evidence submitted under the strictest forms of law to an upright, intelligent and conscientious jury. Our correspondent calls our attention to a misprint which occurred in Judge Johnson’s charge in our issue of yester day. As presented the Judge is made to say, “you and I are here in a political ca pacity,” a declaration so utterly at va riance with the fact, so inconsistent with the whole tenor of the charge and the well-known sentiments of Judge John son, that we doubt not the correction of the typographical error readily sug gested itself to the mind of the intelli gent reader. It is scarcely necessary to say that the object of the Judge in the sentence misprinted by us was to espe cially impress upon the minds of the ju rors that they as well as himself were called to act strictly in a capacity free from revengeful feeling or any the slightest bias of political, personal or race prejudice. The Freed men’s Bank. The commissioners employed in wind ing up the affairs of the Freedmen’s Bank announce that they have collected already $1(10,000, and hope by the first of next month to increase it to SOIO,OOO —-when they will declare a dividend of twenty per cent. They have been offered $250,000 for the banking-house property, but expect the government to purchase it at $015,000. If this expectation is real ized there will be another, but smaller, dividend paid. So it is barely possible that when everything is closed out and finished the creditors of the defunct institution may realize forty or lifty cents on the dollar of their claims. The balance they can whistle for. Of course, “half a loaf h better than no bread,” but the'unfortu nato Africans who deposited their hard earned cash in the Freedmon’s Bank ought at least to have the satisfaction of knowing where and how the missing funds went. This is a matter which should be rigidly investigated by Con gress. The bank was started under the auspices of the government, and the poor negroes were made to believe that it was as safe as the United States Treas ury. They have been most egregiously swindled, and the swindlers ought to be exposed and punished. But the ring is very strong, and its victims are very weak ; therefore there is a small chance of obtaining justice in this most outra geous case of successful “confidence game.” . The Peabody Fund in Louisiana. — The Rev. Dr. Sears, agent of the Pea body education fund, has informed the Hon. It. M. Lusher, the local agent for Louisiana, that aid from that fund will be limited for the present to the Normal and Model School of New Orleans, “be cause of the unsettled state of affairs in Louisiana.” Dr. Sears says: “We are not accomplishing in Louisiana the main object of the trustees. We have kept up schools under private auspices and helped many to get some education, but we have not been able to strengthen a permanent public school system. We have nothing permanent to show. To Louisiana we pay more, and accomplish, for the future, less than in any other State. This is the reason I can go no further in this direc tion. I must wait till something more promising for the future presents itself.’' Let Louisiana be free a due length of time to govern herself, and there is little doubt that education will be properly cared for. ■— > • < —- The editor of the Frankfort Zeitung lias been thrown into jail by the Berlin authorities for refusing to reveal the au thor of certain articles, criticising the government, which appeared in that paper. To a cis-Atlantic observer this looks like a very despotic act, and yet it is no more than our Radical government did during the war. Secretary Stanton sometimes considered criticism of the Administration as so much aid and com fort to rebels, and when he felt like making an example he caused the arrest of a recalcitrant editor here and there, and clapped him in prison. Surrounded by enemies, and always apprehensive of war, Bismarck claims to exercise the same power in Germany that Stanton exercised here. A Philadelphia correspondent of the New York Tribune says there is danger that the United States will be thinly rep resented at the Centennial exhibition. Up to this time the number of applica tions has not reached three thousand five hundred, not one-half that will be re quired to fill the assigned limit. Several States and territories are as yet wholly unrepresented; and there are others that give no promise of making anything ap proaching a satisfactory exhibit of their industries and natural products. The. opinion is expressed that there will be a great rush of applicants as soon as a day is fixed for closing the books, but that day cannot be much longer postponed. The Washington Capitol says that at the dinner given by Grant to Mr. and Mrs. Sartoris, on Friday last, the elegiac poet, George Washington Childs, was caught in the act of handing an epitaph on a little baby to Mr. Sartoris, and was ordered to be taken into the next room and have onq,of Rev. Newman's sermons read to him. The obituary notice ran as follows: Thou lias left us, young Sartoris, I/nlc* pigne d* auloris, Tho’ thv home the other shore is, A w.' aHrentum tui sororis. SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 18T5. Affairs in Georgia. It seems heartless to say of a deceased person that he committed suicide by means of a mouse-colored mule, but that is the epitaph a Banks county jury wrote on a colored man. Mr. E. S. Mallory, of Rocky Ford, Screven county, a first-class tanner, is desirous of entering into partnership with a working tanner who has a capital of five hundred dollars. He thinks the firm could be made to pay smart divi dends in a very short time, and we think so too. The Atlanta Herald-Commomcealth says that the Commonwealth was not pur chased by the Herald Publishing Com pany: that Sawyer edits the combination; and that he proposes to speak out in meeting whenever he feels like it. We are glad to hear it. There is plenty of room in Atlanta for as editor who has grit enough not to-punctuate his edito rials with ifs and huts. A fatal negro- stabbing affray occurred in Ssparta on Monday night. k WiKtk y&K ° u ' Sn old negro kuodktsf off the railroad track the other day near Griffin, by a passing train, and very se verely injured. Atlanta is to liave a novelty factory. The Atlanta Constitution still inclines to the belief that Colonel Wadley will not provide cases for Bibles on his trains. Well, and if he doesn’t? An attempt was recently made to as sassinate Mr. John Aiken, of Barnesville, while he was playing with his baby. Mr. Charles Allison is lecturing on Honduras in Columbus. Two reformed circus-riders are preach ing in Griffin. The Athens Watchman suggests dairy farming for North Georgia. Sawyer, of the Commonwealth-nerlad, says that he can tell how much a first class jackass is worth. No doubt ho could, and in doing so he would not draw on his own experience, for Sawyer him self is only a second-class jackass. The first number of the Ellijay Courier has reached us, and is about as neat a spe cimen as one could wish to see. It is creditable alike to editor and printers, and promises to rank second to no weekly in the State. It is edited and published by Messrs. Lumsdeu and Blats. As the Centennial approaches, one by one the Atlanta editors lay. asido their cutlasses and pistols. This is as it should be ; but if Grady clerks in Ed. Mercer’s restaurant, he ought, by all means, to be armed with a cleaver. The crops in Northeast Georgia arc very promising. McDuffie county has produced a mon strosity in the shape of a pair of negro twins with no skulls. She ought to be satisfied with this effort. A letter for Miss Sallie Mitchell, of Thomasville, is held for postage in the Macon office. A stalk of corn with the ear growing in the grouud is the latest abnormal vege table in Thomson. Now, thore’ri old Uncle Steve Pruitt, of Hall. We’re bound to vote for him for Governor. But, gentlemen, Mr. Stephen Pruitt, of Hall, is the man for our next Governor. He is sixty-eight years old, stands live feet ten inches in his stock ings, weighs 158 pounds, is as sound as a bullet, takes his toddy regular, chews tobacco, has raised a large family, no member of which, himself included, was ever known to raise or buy any provi sions, clothing, whisky, tobacco or chew ing gum in all their lives, and the old gentleman hasn’t buttoned his shirt collar in forty years. Col. Jack Brown is after the illicit dis tillers in Northeast Georgia. A negro burglar who was robbing one of his own color in Macon, cut his victim terribly. The dwelling-house of Dr. W. A. Dunn, of McDuffie county, was destroyed by fire recently. A shooting scrape occurred between Mr. Cherry and Mr. Cain, in Stewart county the other day, in which the former was fatally wounded. Col. George McGinley has leased the Kimball House for five years. Atlanta has had a triangular dog fight. McMath, who was recently shot by Mr. Miller in Sumter county, is dead. Jack Wimberly, colored, of Sumter county, committed suicide the other day. The Americus Republican doesn’t like so much parading by the colored com pany. Atlanta Constitution: The Northern Methodist Church, which professes such great interest in the education and salva tion of Cuffee, have erected a large circus canvas at Newnan, which they call a tab ernacle, and are holding a series of what they term religious meetings ; but they are thought by some to have in view, a3 well, the training ofi the negroes so as to control their votes in the Presidential election. This canvas is carried on from one place to another, followed by a set of Northern ministers, who seem, from re maiks made by these ministers, to have as much interest in the negroes’ votes as they do in their salvation. So a friend from that section avers. A telegram to the Macon Telegraph from Cochran, on the 31st ultimo, says that the morning before a squad of ne groes resisted the Sheriff’s posse of Lau rens county, about eighteen miles from this place, known as the Rocky Creek section. The negroes would not listen to the reasoning of the Sheriff, and when he went in reach of one to arrest him, the negro placed a gun against the Sheriff's breast and burst two caps, which cost the negro his life and that of one of his comrades, and the wounding of another. On the 31st, by nine o’clock, the negroes had massed in the vicinity in arms to the number of one hundred and upwards, with considerable threats as to what would be done that night. Macon Telegraph: A gentleman living on Oak street has an apple tree two or three years old which he transplanted in the early part of the year. The tree, apparently, died. Late in the spring, after some good rains had fallen, the tree budded afresh and bloomed, and again presented every indication of vigorous life. About a score of apples formed on it and grew to a good size. The drought came on, and, to all appearances, the tree again died. The leaves all withered and fell off, and all the apples except one fell off also. Since the rains of the early part of last month, the tree has again returned to life, and now it has not only a full supply of luxuriant foliage, but that one apple is still on it, and the tree is in full bloom. This is rather an un usual vegetable phenomenon. Newnan Star: Tom was in Griffin the other day and told a darkey he had two car-loads of live geese that would be down on the train, and he wanted to hire some hands to drive them to his plan tation in Meriwether. There was two thousand of the geese, and he would pay one cent a head to have them driven out. The darkey immediately closed the trade with Tom and started out to hunt assist ants. They were all to meet at the de pot when the cars arrived and get the geese off. Before train time Tom was several miles in the country on Ins way h me. A correspondent of the Telegraph, who has lost no cotton by reweighing, says: First—My cotton is never suffered to be packed while damp—altough it is not sunned, it is spread so that whatever dew may be on it dries off before ginning. Seeend—My packages are thorougkly covered and sewed with twine, and my factor is instructed to have no sample holes cut until I am ready to offer it for sale, consequently there is no chance for rottage either in transit or in store, and I am convinced if planters would observe these rules (and I offer these suggestions as well for their interest as in justifica tion of factors) there would be less com plaint of lo&s in weight. Atlanta Co>n own wealth-Ht raid :In our Monday’s evening edition we referred to the shameless conduct of A. J. White, in putting a couple of negro children under his care on the PuUrnau sleeping car. In that article we commented severely upon the character and life of Mr. White. Our article has called forth tlid earnest pro teat pf *jguiitlfcman in wl ise character. * - have the ut ° assures us ttiff'-Ve■ havo dtal&AjfcF White a great mJustjvV, ana Anal, ho - v.,-r much cir cumstance!: may appear against him. he is innocent of the grave charges urged against him • that he is not the father of the mulattoes, and that he did not force them on the sleeper, but put them there with the consent of the conductor, who surrendered hi3 own berth to accommo date them. The respect we have for the sincerity, truth and high standing of the gentleman above referred to, induces us to give Mr. White the benefit of his state ment, for while we are determined to guard, with our lives, if need be, the pu rity and sociability of Southern society, injustice we are yet unwilling to do any man. The Atlanta Heralds Cam monwealth re marks with some vigor: “A case of the most brazen and audacious defiance of social respect, was witnessed yesterday at the passenger depot. One A. J. White, former President of the Macon and Western Railroad, it is well known has been, and is still living in open adultery with a blobber-lipped negro wench, his former slave, by whom lie has lmd a num ber of mulatto children. These he hopes to foist—by reason of his wealth and former position--upon the society of ladies and gentlemen; and yesterday he had the audacity to demand a ticket and place in the Baltimore sleeper for his hybrids. The ticket was promptly refused him by the efficient Superintendent of the com pany in this city, Mr. Rhear, whereupon the said A. J. White forced his way into the sleeper, selected one of the choicest berths, and installed his ill-born mulattoes therein, taking his seat among the pas sengers with as much cheek and brazen impudence as if he had never forfeited the respect of every decent white mail or negro in the land by his shameless life.” Columbus Enquirer: It is now pro posed to merge this road into the At lanta and Columbus Air Line Road, which Hi Kimball was once going to build so rapidly, but never even regularly sur veyed, A meeting to favor the comple tion of the line to Atlanta is to be held in Greenville, Meriwether county, on the first Tuesday in October. Deli gates are invited from Columbus, Atlanta, Senoia, ITogansville, and Harris and Fayette counties. Meriwether will send a large delegation. Columbus will be represented, Council at next meeting will appoint a delegation from the al nnen and cit izens. If tiie road be so desirable to the people ou the line and the places named, merchants and capitalists must build the road by private subscriptions. Columbus, as a corporation, has done her full share, and cannot do more, and At lanta, as a corporate body, will do noth ing. We infer so from the fact that she will not extend further her “Great West ern” road, an enterprise of far greater importance to her. These facts should be impressed on the people at every point, that they may know what exertions they must make, and that on them de pends the success or failure of the line. If Columbus could only extend the road beyond the mountain she would gain a splendid trade. Florida Affairs. A rattlesnake eight feet long and fifteen inches round was killed in Leon county the other day. Mr. John D. Branch, of Leon county, has sold five bales of new cotton in Tal lahassee. Captain Carles M. Harris, of Gadsden county, is dead. The Floridian very pertinently inquires what the Radicals are going to do about LeCain, the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Marion county, who was caught in the act. In this instance he helped himself to only a trifle of some sl.3oo—that is, unless the Board ef County Commission ers have wofully blundered in their “in vestigation.” What are they going to do about it ? This man LeCain was a sort of pet of his Aecidency, and his aid was much counted on towards giving him the nomination next year. The Floridian notices that the Sentinel, the “organ,” is profoundly silent over this trifling matter. What is a paltry $1,300 in comparison to the thousands stolen by others vho remain in good and regular standing as State officers, or the millions gobbled up through fraudulent bonds fraudulently issued while the robbers are protected against the criminal laws here and elsewhere ? Evidently the Sentinel considers the thing unworthy of notice, and that “silence is golden.’ Pete Jones, of Jacksonville, will evi dently run for Mayor of Jacksonville again, in spite of the small salary. He fined a colored constable, who endeavored to deprive a policeman of his club while the latter was attempting to enforce the law, only jvse dollars. Another vote made. If it is any consolation to the editors of the Jacksonville Press, we will state that the Rev. Dr. Hicks, in an open let ter to Gen. D. H. Hill, pi in ted in the Morning News of June 2, 1871, avers that he w j the responsible editor of every issue of the Nineteenth Century ex cept the last, and he quotes therefrom an extract from one of his own editorials, in which he roundly abuses the South Caro lina Reformers for sandwiching the names of negroes in the ticket. The entire let ter is a study. Among othfr things, it contains this sentence: “On the con trary, the XIX Century advocated and recognized but one responsible citizenship, which it lodged in the while / nan The italics are Dr. Hicks’s. LeCain defends himself in the Ocala Banner from the charge of fraud and embezzlement, but not with any great degree of vigor. A Monticello man has killed a white partridge. The skin will be stuffed. The Constitution irreverently remarks: “P. C. F. V. (protect colored female virtue) Hicks last week was prancing around Tallahassee without his famous body guard. He ran a great risk. ” The same paper says that Emery Brooks, the colored man who was sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for a term of four years, at- the last term of the Circuit Court for Jefferson county, escaped from the penitentiary on last Saturday night, and is still at large. And what is somewhat strange about the matter is this: Notwithstanding the convict did not effect his escape until Saturday night, the fact was known and discussed among the colored people on the streets of Monticello Sunday evening. Is there an underground telegraph be tween the penitentiary and Monticello ? We are indebted to Mr. G. P. Webb, of Gainesville, for the following statement of cotton shipped from that station from September 1, 1574, to August 31, 1875, inclusive: Total Upland. Sea Island. Bale* For Savannah 1.049 315 1,364 For Charleston 128 567 ’696 For New York 148- 268 416 1,325 1,150 2,475 In the evont that the people of Jeffer son conclude to move their county site from Monticello to Waukeenah, the Con stitution says it is the intention of the people north of the railroad to petition the next Legislature for a division of the county—forming anew county out of all that portion of Jefferson lying north of the J., P. AM. Railroad, with a division of the railroad indebtedness attaching to the present county. This will really be a necessity, for it would be a great hard ship to require the people living near the Georgia line to travel twenty miles or more to reach the county site for the transaction of official business. “G.,” our correspondent at Gainesville, writing under date of September Ist, says: ‘On yesterday about two o'clock we were visited by a very heavy rain and thunder storm which lasted about two hours. The residence of Mr. M. Endel was struck by lightning, the fluid taking effect in the roof and running down near the chimney into the chamber occupied by Sheriff L. A. Barnes, completely de molishing the clock, the pictures and the furniture generally. It did not descend to the lower story, however. Mr. Endel received very little injury, and no incon venience to the family. Again, about sun set, another storm came on, with very little wind and rain, but with terrific thunder and lightning. As yet I have heard of no damage, except a shade tree in the yard of Hon. J. B. Dawkins. Mr. IV. P. Itice, our railroad agent, was going home about the time this tree was struck, and says he felt the shock very sensibly, and did not entirely recover from it for more than an hour, although he was fully a quarter of a mile distant. The weather is cloucfy and raining this morning. For the past two or three weeks the weather has been very fine for cotton, and it has been coming in quite freely. We have shipped up to date near one hundred bales of the new crop. The health of Gainesville was never better.” The Floridian rather sickens the New South with a comparison of figures. It says that for sixteen years up to the war, the receipts of the State Government, under Whig and Democratic r.ule, were §1,337,860 94, and the warrants drawn amounted to $1,492,938 41—the average receipts being $83,491 31, and the ex penses $94,308 65. The difference be tween receipts and warrants drawn grew out of extraordinary expenditures for suppressing Indian hostilities, and on account of fraudulent warrants issued by a dishonest Comptroller, whom the Re publicans are fond of quoting. The fraud amounted to over SIOB,OOO. No State, North or South, can show such a record. It created no debt, but paid as it went, except for protective purposes against the Indians, and has a claim on the General Government equal to the amount of the State bonds held by the “ Indian Trust Fund.” The government was frugal, and the people scarcely felt its burdens. Taxes seldom went beyond sixteen cents on the one hundred dollars of property. Salaries were low, and there was no opportunity for pickings. The Governor was paid two thousand dollars, the Secretary of State eight hundred dol lars, the Comptroller eleven hundred dol lars, the Attorney General five hundred dollars, and the Adjutant General five hundred dollars. These same officials now get more than treble these salaries, while taxation has increased until there is no State where it is probably greater. At the close of the war the debt was three hundred and seventy thousand dol lars, and when the Itadicals took charge it was only about five hundred and twenty-three thousand dollars. Will the Non South tell us what it is now, and what it will be when the “ Littlefield bonds are fastened on the people, through the efforts being made by Stearns and the ring? To save it the trouble of looking through the records, which we are quite sure it will not be inclined to do, we will state that the receipts into the Treasury since the in auguration of Reed in July, 18G8, up to January 1, 1875, six and a half years, have aggregated $2,361,344.01, or an av erage of $363,283 a year, while the war rants drawn have amounted to $2,447,- 220.99, being an average of $370,495,44 a year. In addition to these vast expend itures the debt has increased from $523,- 856.95, of which $57,492.32 was floating, to $1,580,513.72, of which $185,64 6.14 is floating. This was up to Ist of Janu ary last, since which time the floating debt has diminished, but the bonded debt has increased. If the efforts being made to saddle the Littlefield swindle on the State are successful, we shall soon have a debt of nearly dr, millions, the interest on which will amount to quite $450,000 a year, as the fruit of “liepublicanism in Florida. ” Monticello Constitution: We inter viewed a colored man a few days ago, and he assured us that the colored voters would prefer to be the political allies of thsir old masters and friends, rather than the blind, subservient followers of strangers and adventurers, if they could be convinced that it was not the inten tion of the Democracy, when it secured control of the government, first, to pro cure pay from the Federal Treasury for the emancipated slaves; and, failing in this, second, to re-establish slavery. In response to an inquiry as the source from whence he and the colored people pro cured the information that such was the design of the Democracy, he very can didly admitted that his people never did hold a secret political meeting, at which the re-enslavement of the negro was the the principal topic of conversation ; that he himself had never held a private con versation, of a political character, with a carpet-bagger, that the latter failed to re mind him that the freedom of himself and family depended solely upon the con tinuance in power of the present Radical party. An immense water spout fell two miles north of Caddo, Indian Territory, at 11 o’clock yesterday. For two hours suc ceeding the rain fell in torrents. The Red river at the crossing of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad, rose twelve feet in two hours, displacing the bridge between Caddo and Caney, and overflow ing the track for several miles. A pas senger train was delayed some time in making repairs, and the freight trains were abandoned. It was impossible during the spout to see ten feet from the train. South Carolina Affairs. Miss Mary Harris, of Aiken, brought the first bale of new cotton to town Fri day. It was raised upon her farm, the Willard place, and was purchased by J. H. Beckman for 13£ cents per pound. A saw fish, with a weapon two feet in length, was caught by some fishermen off the front beach, Charleston, on Saturday last. Newberry’s first bale weighed 501 pounds, and was sold by Mr. A. M. Nichols to Mr. T. F. Harmon at fifteen cents. A lot of new Carolina rough rice from the plantation of Mr. J. B. Bissel, on the Combahee, was received in Charleston on Monday by the Savannah and Charles ton Kailroad. It was consigned to Messrs. W. C. Bee & Cos., and sent to Bennett's mill to be pounded. The Georgetown Township Tax Union have a meeting on the 31st on important business. Mr. W. A. Hudson has purchased six acres of land from Mr. Wash Howell,and is to erect thereon eighteen cottages, and lease ihem to the Camperdown Factory. Greenville, for fifteen years, and thus work goes bravely on. Mr. Bennett, of Union county, has a farm of fifteen acres, which will yield him $842 50. One of Mr. J. M. Waddill’s horses, that had just been driven over in his ex press wagon, died suddenly last Saturday afternoon, a short time after reaching Marlboro. Cotton has been injured by the heavy rains in Marlboro. The Georgetown rifle guards will par ticipate in the Fort Moultrie centennial. Mr. John T. Wightman, Sr., the father of the Rev. J. T. Wightman, of Charles ton, died on Saturday morning last, at his residence in Wentworth street, in the ninety-second year of his age. Hog cholera is doing deadly work among the swine in Clarendon county. The Times reports the rust in many of the cotton fields of Union county. An election for Mayor and four Aider men for the town of Orangeburg, S. 0., will be held on Tuesday, the 14th of Sep tember. There are twelve prisoners in the county jail of Winnsboro. The camp-meeting ten miles north of Greenville is still going on, and on Sun day morning at least one thousand col ored persons left our city for the ground in vehicles of every description. The expenses of the recent term of the United States Court at Greenville were lighter than usual. A devil fish was captured in tho back creek, Charleston harbor, last week. Mr. H. Wessels, of Aiken, will soon establish a poultry farm near the out skirts of that town, for the purpose of raising chickens, ducks and geese for the trade. Four negroes, supposed to belong to the Winnsboro gang of burglars, were cap tured near Fort Mills, York county, on Friday last. A narty of gentlemen from the vicinity of Winnsboro ana ltiagewny ir.it Pri day succeeded in killing a splendid buck, a turkey and a fat coon. A Post Office will be established at Helena, Newberry, with Mr. Zobel as postmaster. Mr. Geo. Hood’s store, in Brownsville, Marlboro county, was broken open last Saturday night, and about seventy dollars stolen. The Laurensville Herald regrets to state that the work on the Laurens road will cease unless the stockholders and subscribers at Clinton pay up. Mr. Ma grath, however, has expressed a willing ness to push on the work, provided a guarantee is given him that the amount of money promised shall be paid by the Ist cf November next. On last Thursday a serious difficulty occurred on Mr. T. S. Brice’s plantation, in Fairfield county, between Harry Estler and Alf. Feaster. It seems that Alf. and Harry had a falling out while at work, when Harry threw a rock at Alf. knock ing him senseless, besides breaking his jaw. While down Harry stabbed Alf. twenty, four times with his knife. Alf. is now lying in a critical condition at his home. Harry was arrested. Good news! That unflagging flag bearer and unbearable nuisance, Hergeant Bates, has declared his intention to offer his services to the Sultan, to aid in sup pressing the insurrection in Herzegovina. Let us hope that his offer will be ac cepted*, and that he will bo set to carry ing the crescent, instead of the starry banner. We have no objection to make to the departure of the intrepid Sergeant, but, before he goes after the rebellious Her zegovinians, we want him to bear a white flag to the Illinois Winnebagoes. We understood that Bates had been engaged by Colonel Bob, as an attraction for his Centennial restaurant. However that may be, he should postpone his mission to Turkey till after the Centennial, as the great show would be deficient without him. Bessie and Theodore. — Theo. Tilton is writing a play—a five-act tragedy, one of the “Ger-rasheous Heavings! All is lost! Ha !ha ! ha!” kind, and Bessie Turner is writing a novel, one of the “But,” mur mured the maiden, “if thou dostest not thinkest, Adelbert, that it wert better for me if I havedest hade not” kind, and we don’t care much now if the new trial comes off or not. With Bessie’s new novel, “From Bed to Bed; or, Asleep in the Dark,” and Theodore’s terrible tragedy, “Hung to the Wall; a Tail of a Nightshirt,” the American people can struggle through the winter about as patiently as they worried through the spring and summer. —Burlmrjton Jiawk eye. A Felonious Goat. —She testified be fore the magistrate that “dot pilly goats shoost vas a —-a —veil, I vas vashing py some clodings of a pig tub, und them gotes coom up pehind und—veil, slio go, I don’t ken told you dot vas. I feel me someding pehind my pack, und snump over der tub und sthand me on my head up mit dot tub's pottom up, und der clodings sphilt shoost like me, und dem gotes vink at me mit von eye und vag his tails of mine face, und valk out py his pehind legs like a man, und I can’t sit me down cood any more already. ” The goat was fined one (s)cent, which he left behind. A Tebbible Lesson. —Ralston is dead. Last week he was supposed to be worth $20,000,000. Yesterday he was known to be a pauper. To-morrow he will fill a suicide’s grave. The magnificent man sion where he entertained a hundred guests is without a master, and all the millions he had amassed have slipped through his fingers. It is the legitimate close of the life of a great speculator. He threw, all, from day to day, on the turn of a die, and when the end came he had nothing more to live for. There is no use to moralize. But it may be asked just here: Does it pay?— N. 7. Cm. Advertier, ESTABLISHED 1850. TIIE l-LAHI'E IN FLORIDA. Ki v. P. C. F. V. Hicks—llia Vivid nation His Troubles with the Hon. ■ >uvid Ynlee— llia Suit Against the Ed itors of the Press. (From au Occasional Correspondent of the Morn ing News.] Jacksonville, September 1. Florida Is unlike the Egypt of olden time. Egypt was afflicted with a plague of locusts. Florida is afflicted with a plague of preachers. The one was sent by God; the other by the devil. The Egyptians were punished because they had siuned against Heaven. Why Florida is punished it is not written. But that she is suffering from this ministerial plague is manifest to those who have no ticed the careers of the liev. lonathan, of Tallahassee, and the Rev. P. C. F. V. Hicks, of Wales, Brooklyn, Georgia, Bis oayne Bay and late of Fernandina, Flor ida. The one runs a scandal mill at the capital in the interest of the Fernandina Observer; the other waves the bloody shirt and manufactures Ku-Klux lies at Fernandina. Par nobUe fratrum! When shall we look upon this like again! But Hicks is excusable to some extent for his Ku-Klux tales. It is the result of his having cultivated his imagination to the exclusion of his other faculties. Under the circumstances it is natural that he should have done so. People who have nurtured their minds surrounded by all of the concomitants of primitive simplici ty, and in utter and complete isolation from civilization, develop their imagina tions and dwarf their other powers. This is natural. Dr. Blair, in his excellent rhet orical lecture s, states most positively that vivid and exaggerated imaginations are peculiar to those persons whose whole lives have been passed in the seclusion of the woods or the dangers of the fron tier. Dr. Hicks was a missionary to India. He lived with wild people. He disciplined semi-barbarous youths; rode wild horses, read exciting books, affiliated with the natives in their Indian sim plicity, and for months was surrounded by objects that only appealed to his im agination and assisted in the development of that inventive genius that has so sig nally marked his life in Florida. There fore we aver that it is quite natural for the Doctor to possess a wonderful im agination; an imagination that invents a Ku-Klux outrage with all of the facility and ease with which he imposed upon the Methodist denominations of Charles ton, Macon, Augusta, and Tallahassee, Fla. This imagination has been the bane of his life. It causes him to think that ho never edited the Nineteenth Century, never passed himself off for a Democrat in South Carolina and Georgia, never made war speeches and preached po litical sermons before he came South. Now, all of these little inconsistencies are entirely the result of—not a propensity to lie, but of a too highly tilled imagination. Indeed, if the farmers of this country could only come into the possession of that fertilizer which gave rise to such an exuberance of imagination in the mind of the Rev. Doctor, the ques tion of labor would no longer annoy thorn, as the rapidity of the growth of cotton and grain under its vigorous in fluence would be so great as to require no labor beyond the planting oi But this is not the only trouble tb&y tie doctor’s imagination has gotteadp’m into. II ’ and King David Ynlee, have also had trouble, and all owing to tails wild mid unrestrained imagination of the versatile doctor. He bought a newspaper, the Fernandina Observer, from King David. Bought it on credit, and now imagines that he has paid for it. In proof of his having paid for it, he ex hibits the King’s bill of sale for the same. Yet the King asseverates with Cyclopean vehemence that the doctor has never done any thing of the kind. In fact, the King goes so far as to charge that the doctor is only in possession of the said bill of sale through a breach of trust, and states that it came about in this man ner : When the King and the Rev. Doctor had agreed upon the terms of sale of the said paper, the King gave to the Doctor his bill of sale to the pro perty, and asked him to take it down and deliver it to H. J. Baker, Esq., who was to hold the said bill of sale until he could prepare a mortgage upon the said news paper, which the Reverend Doctor was to execute and deliver, and in return to obtain the bill of sale to the property. Agreeable to this idea the Doctor took possession of the bill of sale, but con trury to the stipulations pocketed the same and did not go near the King’s at toruey, and now declines to give a mort gage upon the paper. So the King has sold the property and delivered a bill of sale for the same, without receiving any compensation, and now sighs beoause the Doctor will not execute to him a mort gage upon the property. All of this is the result of the Doctor’s imagination. He thinks that he has paid for that paper; that King David is trying to play him tricks, and that he is a much abused man. It is his insane imagination that is con tinually placing him in an unenviable position. It is this imagination which makes him think that he is oonstantly in danger of assassination. That makes him like Pollock’s clodhopper. “ l.ittle above the ox his reason rose, And in's memory so untaught That what at evening playful along the swamp, Fantastic clad in robes of fiery hue, tie thought the devil in disguise, and fled, With quiv’ring heart and winged footsteps home.” ivion who have been on a long and con tinued drunk, and whose minds are fren zied from alcoholic stimulants, and whose hands are palzied with the tremens, can imagine that snakes, monekeys and devils arc after them, but it is only an imagina tion that has received long and assiduous cultivation, like that of the Rev. Doctor, that can create vile midnight assassins out of empty nothingness. And the Doctor imagines that a jury of this county are going to give him a verdict for dam ages against the Jacksonville Press. Wild delusion of idiotic fancy. Yet he de voutiy believes that his cause is righteous, and consequently has taken to nursinej his suit with an assiduity that would be commendable, were it not for the cause in which it is done. It seems to give him considerable unrest and uneasiness, for he has been over here several times since he instituted the actioD, and exhibits a decidedly more perturbed spirit than the editors of the Press. It is possibly owing to the differences in their respective consci ences. •Jonathan, alion Itev. John Tyler, was in cur city on Tuesday. He was pano plied in ail the glory that a clan hammer coat, suggestive of ancient history, could possibly impart, and feeling his impor tance, registered himself at the Metro politan Hotel as Mr. Tyler, Tallahassee. Perhaps he thinks with beau Brummel, tLat ‘ ‘there is safety in a swallow-tailed coat. ’ Publius. A P bison Hobbob —Michael Connolly, a prisoner in the Blackwell Island (New York; penitentiary, was found in a dying condition on Friday morning, and ex pired in a few moments. An examina tion of the body disclosed great welts and bruises on his hips, shoulders and legs. A discharged prisoner testified that he had seen Deputy Warden Corvenhoven and Keeper Geary beat Connolly in a brutal manner. On one ccoasion Geary beat him with the handle of a broken shovel which had a sharp projecting knob. At the first stroke Connolly fell, saying; ‘’Oh, my God! Geary, you have murdered me. 1 ’ Nevertheless, when he arose he was again knocked down by the keeper. Another timej in Owen’s presence, Geary ordered Connolly to be thrown into the iron cistern in which the men clean out their slop-buckets. He struck heavily on his head and was severely injured. The deputy warden once struck Connolly, knocking him over a wheelbarrow. The inhuman officials have been put under arrest. OUR JACKSONVILLE LETTER. Condition of the Crops—The O ratine Prospect—A Canard—Nem-o Mob Vio lence—Old Uncle Spinner—Life at May port—Fort Beorie Island. [Special Correspondence of tho Morning News.] Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 1, 1875. s Some people are never satisfied. A month ago it was too dry, now it is too wet. Generally speaking, these grumbler:: do not plant any crops, and as far as their interests are affected it would mako no difference whether it rains or shines. The weather and the seasons are wisely ordered by the Great Master, and mortals ought to be thankful for the many blessings they enjoy. CROPS. The effects of the long continued dry weather I do not think will prove as se rious as many supposed, except in some localities there will be a full average. Close gathering, saving and housing will materially make up the loss. Fanners are more and more giving attention to composting manures and thorough culti vation, planting fewer acres and averag ing increased products. Tho sharp experience of too much cotton hns taught our people that to keep out of debt and become independent, they must grow their own provisions and feed their stock from their own land. If the South could as she did feed large armies end s, home population for four years only a portion of its soil, certai should do so now and have a largo s ■ ( to export. Fifty years hence tho a; tural wealth of the United States w 1 south of the Potomac. OBANUES. Many persons who rushed into ; business without experience or c;■. have found that they undertook than they could carry out. The pla and caring for a hundred trees is work enough for any one man for the fin years; the mere setting out the tr< the least part of it, as those who avn tried it have discovered. The gi ■. > has to be kept clean and worked, ding, trimming and trees watched i fully. The orange is a quick growing hardy tree if properly taken care of, but if neglected, suffers. THE PLYMOUTH BOCK, The report that this famous steam - boat (which Jim Fisk got up to run from New York to Long Branch), was to bo brought here to run up and down tho St. Johns, as a kind of floating hotel, is probably a canard. In tho first place, the boat has but few staterooms, and the mere runniug expenses would be too large for any profit. A boat which could accommodate say fifty to seveuty-fivo guests might do well during tho crowded season ; but, generally speaking, people had rather sleep ashoro than in the con tracted stateroom. NEGRO VIOLENCE. The recent mob which gathered at Sanderson, following tho murderous plot in Georgia, shows that there is somo kind of an organization extending throughout the South. The late speeches of Fred Douglas and other leading negroes, advis ing the color line, will breed mischief. In the desperate state of the Radical party, if outrages, so-called, cannot be inau gur ited, their only chance for success is gone. Gov. Smith’s prompt measures, and the cool pationce of the people, will no doubt check, at once and for aye, any colored leagues in Georgia, organized for evil to the whites. ST. JOHNS TO INDIAN BIVEE. The usual routes from this city to In diau river are by small schooners by tho coast and by tho river to some near point opposite, whore one crosses by land a few miles. This last route is rather long and expensive. The rapid settlement now going on has induced a company to build a railroad across. The lines are now be ing surveyed. Probably the line will be located from Enterprise across a distance, say of twenty five miles. It is proposed to build a narrow guago road. This road completed, easy access can bo had to hun dreds of miles of a country now almost unknown. Still another route will be opeued via Tocoi, St. Augustine, tlienco southward. This will make a ciro- ‘ some four l mn dred miles f * to mists of , „H yet an "V;— >n country, nncl open I ing up new points for immigrants. EX-TBEABUREH SPIN NEK. This fine old greenback gentleman will in future make Florida his homo for most of the year. He, with his son in - law and friends, are largely interested in the First National Bank here. He is fond of the gun and rod, and enjoys out door exercise on land and water. It will be a great relief to him to get away from Washington, where he was badgered by the President and Cabinet. He is tho one bright exception of tho Federal offi cials who has not bent the knee; gruff ho may be, and probably had to be; honest he is proved to be; long may he live and enjoy life freed from the cares of offieo, BUILDINCI continues in city and country. We have two large establishments here which fur nish builders’materials, including ever,- thing, so a building is now mqff | rapidly. Forty to sixty days in ,v only necessary, instead of six month or more as of old. More ornamentation is intro duced, and the many internal improve ments of ranges, water, gas, A . are added. In number, variety of tyic null value, I think there has been i V i. , this season than in any previou yet we have no public buildings e heroin county, State or national. Who have officials who have tho will acter and influence to get theso er our city will in buildings equal the best.' P. A. L. One of the best buildings on Bay street now being finished, is being arranged ou the European plan, including rooms, res taurant, bar, and all those conveni • tices which attach to a hotel. While we have had fair restaurants, yet from tho nature of the buildings, they were small and lacked completeness. Lyman, tho lesseo’ of the present building, has had a life long experience in this business in New York, Han Francisco, Au gusta and here, Jpa- a --fefge ac quaintance, and Ltn>. That suave and cour teous manner which pleases alike tho stranger and the citizen. Consequent! and hotel olerks and impertinent subordinate' : are too frequent in the larger houses where guests are only recognized by tho number of their rooms. MAXPOBT. A few of our wide awake citizens a year ago conoeived the happy hi erecting cottages on the baJ-h . mouth of the Ht. John’s and . there during the hot, dull n ,ut: summer. Their example s b<-<-n f-.i lowed, and now there are one ■/, five neat cottages erected ad oceup a. The Histers have also built a convent school, which they occupy with their pupils in summer. As the beach ex tends for miles, year by year there will bo accessions. Aside from the healthy sea breeze, bathing, fishing and hunting, the wide, hard beach affords miles, even as far as St. Augustine, to ride , ' A steamer daily leaves this city afternoon and returns in the mo , business men can, if they choc their offices at usual hours, exception, every one who ha there is pleased; especially it is boon to ladies and children, fp. idea that people ot the South ~ North to spend the summer is . „ for here at our doors we can ha tie advantages and none of the disao of the fashionable resorts ther. ii the matter of expense our peop) mu k great saving. Savannah, In already found several attracti near by which are being patronized. FOBT OEOEOE ISLAND. This beautiful place, which lies oppo site Mayport, is being improved by the building of a large hotel and cottages, and will make a good winter as well as summer resort, as, being thickly wooded, it is protected from cold winds. Tho grounds have been laid out with good taste, with walks and drives affording fine views of the ooean. A high tower on Mount Hormlia commands an exten sive view on land and sea. Our sea isl ands on the southern coast will eventu ally become favorite resorts for our own as well as Northern people, being plea ant in summer and winter. Tbuthful James. > > ♦ < Ann Garley, of New Haven, the un fortunate woman whoso scalp was torn off nearly two years ago in a shirt fac tory, and upon whose head the opera tion of skin-grafting has been success fully performed, has left the Connect*, cut hospital, and is now working ae& domestic m a hotel near that city *