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•I. 11. KSTILL, Savannah, Oa.
The Radical Manrciivrcing in the Mis
sissippi Business.
The public North and South have
Waited with considerable anxiety the re-
Hult of the correspondence between the
carpet-bagger poltroon A men, the Massa
chusetts Governor of Mississippi, and
the administration at Washington, in ref
erence to the recent disturbances in that
Htate, The entire correspondence has
not been given to the public, and it was
only yesterday that we were enabled to
give the dispatch of Attorney-General
Pierrepont, in which he declined to rec
omtnond the issuing of a proclamation.
by the President and the employ
tnent of Federal troops in Missis
ippi until it had been demonstrated to
the satisfaction of the administration
that the State authorities —
*■*'' , 'Cf• ih refusal was
promptly made known, though the full
text of the reply to Ames, dated on the
11th inst., was not published, and Attor
ney General Pierrepont has been very gen
erally applauded by the Democratic and
Conservative press for refusing to com -
ply with the demand of Ames for troops
with which to overawe the whites and
control the approaching elections in
Mississippi. General Grant, too, has
been commended for his forbearance in
not taking military possession of tho
Htate and re enacting the scenes of
usurpation and despotism which
characterized his interference in
behalf of his pot satrap, Kel
logg, in Louisiana. This hesitation or
unwillingness on the part of Gtant und
his Attorney General has been generally
credited to their duo appreciation of the
popular revulsion against Federal militn
ry interference in the local affairs of the
States, whilo some have regarded their
action as evidence of anew born respect
for tho constitutional right of local self
government, a more magnanimous feel
ing toward the Southern people, and an
unwillingness to precipitate strife in the
South for partisan purposes. For our
own part wo have not felt authorized to
give to their action in this matter either
of these constructions. Wo have felt
constrained to regard the forbearance
of tho administration as resulting from
a change of policy rather than a change
of principlesorsontiment, and an exami
nation ot' the correspondence, so far as it
has oeun made public, only confirms our
distrust of tho motives of Grant and his
advisers. Wo can well understand why
the President should choose to avoid the
odium of a repetition of tho Louisiana
outrage. The demonstrations of public
opinion throughout the Union within the
last year, would have convinced a duller
intellect than his that ho cannot afford
to assume the responsibility of another
Huoli outrage, on the frivolous pretext, of
quelling a barbecue fight over a bottle of
his favorite lluid. It was not,
howover, uny respect which he
entertains for tho right of loeal self
government, for law or propriety, or
innguauimous feeling towards the South
ern people, that restrained his action.
It was only the lack of a plausible pre
text that presented his willing and
prompt compliance with tho demand of
his satrap, Amos, for troops. Ho makes
the dignified threat that “there shall bo
no childb play” when ho takes the white
people of Mississippi in hand, but lie
wait' for his satrap and minion to create
a condition of things in Mississippi
w-’iicb will justify him in taking military
possession of tho State and reducing it
to the condition of a conquered negro
province. Pierrepont, too, only restrains
his ardor, waiting for a plausible pretext
for Federal interference, lie counsels
Ames how to proceed, giving him assu
rances that when he opens the fight tho
government will be prompt to aid him
in “destroying the bloody ruffians who
murder the innocent and unoffending
freedmen.” “Organize yonr negro mili
tia,’' advises tho gentle-mannered Pierre
pout; “ they are largely in the majority
■ in the State, and should have tho man
hood and courage to fight for their
rights.” Set them in armed defiance of
the whites—being careful to comply with
the law and if they meet with opposi
tion which they cannot overcome, “tho
President will swiftly aid you in crushing
these lawless traitors to human rights.”
Such is the tenor of Attorney General
Piorropout's instructions to Ames.
While he waits his opportunity he as
sures the administration pimp and pal
troon that “ everything is in readiness ”
and that the President will “ swiftly aid ’’
him whenever he begins the conflict with
the whites. Instead of forbearance, in
stead of peaceful counsel, such as should
emanate from the Department of Justice,
it is an instigation to insurrection and
bloodshed: and if the people of Mississippi
have cause to be thankful that their State
is not already the scene of bloody con
flict between the races, or overrun with
Federal troops and their civil government
subverted, they owe their escape from
such a fate to the cowardice and paltroon
cry of Adelbert Ames, rather than to the
1 forbearance, justice or magnanimity of
■ Graut and his Attorney General.
} It is very evident from the correspon
dentse that has transpired that “the Presi
dent aud all of us" would be glad of an
Opportunity to “crush these lawless trai
tors to human rights," and thereby pre
vent the triumph of the Democrats in
the approaching election; but Graut. af
ter his late experience, shrinks from as
suming the responsibility of the initia
tive in the movement, and Milksop
Antes, while he is willing, as he says, to
bear all the “olium,” is too cow
ardly a cur to incur the dangers
of the situation. But it must be
admitted, that in his argument of the
case with Pierrepont, Ames has the logic of
facts on his side. He was foirted on the
people of Mississippi by Federal usurp
ation aud military power, and he is right
in claiming the protection and support
of the power that, in defiance of law and
right, put him in the position he disgraces
in open defiance of the will of the outraged
people of Mississippi. In establishing
carpet-bag rule in the South in violation
of the Constitution and by military
power, the Radical party inaugurated
the conflict of races to which Ames re
fers in his letter to Pierrepont, and if
carpet-bag and negro supremacy can only
be maintained in Mississippi or elsewhere
South by the bayonet, it will hare
J. 11. ESTILL, PROVRILTOK,
to be maintained by the Federal bayonet.
Ames and Grant know very well, and At
torney General Pierrepont ought to know,
that it will never do to undertake the sub
jugation of the white men of the South
with negro militia.
Mr. Seward used to say that the Union
could not continue to exist while the
States were half slave and half free. He
proved a prophet. The Radical party
have by force attempted the experiment
of Republican State governments, half
white and half black. There are those
who doubt the possibility of perpetua
ting such political mongrelisrn under any
other than a strong despotic government,
and it remains to be seen whether horno
genity in the body politic of States is
not as essential to the maintain&nce of
peace, order and personal security as
uniformity of institutions was essential
to the peace, harmony and prosperity of
the Union.
Jefferson Davis in Missonri.
Jefferson Davis made an address at the
Kansas City (Mo.) Industrial Exposition
on Tuesday, in the course of which he
advised the jieople of the Missouri valley
to at once inaugurate a system looking to
the improvement and latU-r-dcveLopment
JfSJjseiZ "advantages. Upon this point
he said :
“Your products are beyond the capa
city of your neighbors to consume. You
must have a foreign market as well as a
domestic market, and it is of that foreign
market that I propose to speak. You
are surrounded by a plain, which but a
short time ago was the home of the sav
age and the roaming ground of the
buffalo. You have reared your city
and have aggregated your railroads, un
til they extend in every direction like
spiders’ legs; but you have one railroad
more to build. Ido not know how many
more you have to build, but I know there
is one which you need, where low water
aud ice will never obstruct navigation.
When you are connected with the Mis
sissippi, say at Memphis, you have a
road open to a country accessible to for
eign markets at every season of the year.
You have not to wait for the river to rise,
you have not to wait for the boats to be
constructed. You have the boats already
constructed, aud you have the river
ready for commerce at all seasons of the
year to reach the markets of Europe.
When I was in England, some years ago, I
was invited by the Mississippi Valley
Association, which had an office in
Loudon, to call, and at one of their meet
ings they said, How can we open trade
and traffic with the valley of the Missis
sippi ? Wo have made an effort and but
little progress has been made. What is
the reason aud how can we remove the
difficulty ? My answer was, the first ne
cessity is large ships running regularly
between the ports of Europe and New
Orleans, so as to bring out larger cargoes
at greatly reduced rates. Well, how can
that be done ? You have got to get tho
depth of water over the bar. Well, then,
dredge tho bar and make the water.”
Mr. Davis then went on to describe the
manufacturing advantages of the valley,
complimented the ploople of Missouri for
the money and labor they expended in
the cause of education, described how
science must bo applied to agriculture,
and then proceeded to speak of the
financial question and tho evils of con
traction, as follows :
“Are we to resume specie payments by
contracting the currency ? Are these the
blessings to flow from an early resump
tion of specie payments-? If so, I will
have none of it. When, then, are we tm
resume ? It is a good thing to resuni “
it is we who must always have a surplus
An the markets; we always sell to the world
in the currency of the world, and specie
is its currency. And the dry land is a
very proper place for a man who is in tho
water. After he has got out of the water
he can stand on the dry laud. Aud that
certainly is our coudition just now. When
Congress fixed the date for resumption
they might as well have fixed the date
when the Missouri river would rise and
when the Missouri river would fall. They
might as well have fixed a date to any
other event which was beyond their con
trol as the date when there would be a
sufficient auouut of specie m the country
to answer to tho demands of trade.”
Undeniable Figures.
In ft short editorial, the Cincinnati En
quirer tells much to encourage the Dem
ocracy. It says: “Figures are eloquent.
More than auything else, they are accu
rately expressive. They never lie.* Let
them tell the recent growth of Democratic
power in the United States: In 1870, four
Democratic Governors; in 1875, twenty
four Democratic Governors. In 1870,four
Democratic Legislatures; in 1875, twenty
four Democratic Legislatures. In 1870,
ninety Democratic members of the House
of Representatives of the United States;
in 1875, one hundred and eighty mem
bers of that body. In 1870, twelve
Democratic members of the Senate
of the United States; in 1875,
twenty-eight members. Thus the De
mocracy are progressing. Thus they are
gravitating to the possession of the
power of the Federal Government. They
will attain it in the Centennial year.”
The result in Maine adds to the potency
of the above facts. Official and reported
returns from all the counties of Califor
nia but two, in which the vote is very
small, give Irwin, Democrat, 56,601;
Phelps, Republican, 29,601, and Bid
well, Independent, 27,430. Irwin’s plu
rality over Phelps, 2G,!)10, and his vote is
within 520 of the combined vote of the
Republicans and Independents. The
Independents have been complained of
by the organs for defeating the Republi
cans, but as their vote is within 2,264 of
the Republican vote, it is a question
whether the Independents should not
complain of the Republicans keeping the
field.”
The Bondholders mid Mouey Monopo
lists All Right.
In their scare at the prospect of the
triumph of the people in the coming elec
tions, the bullionists congratulate them
selves on the fact that they control the
President and the Senate, and that they
will be able to carry out their contraction
policy in spite of the opposition of the
people's representatives in Congress. A
Washington dispatch to a hard money
organ says : “Notwithstanding the in
flation planks in the platform of the
Democrats in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and
the prediction that these and other
States will go Democratic on that issue,
the President is not at all disturbed. The
specie resumption act is on the statute
book, and cannot be repealed over the
President’s veto save by a two-thirds vote
of Congress, and should the House cast
such a vote the record of the Senate shows
that it would be impossible to carry it
through that body. In other words, the
administration is confident that whatever
measure may be enacted on the financial
question conflicting with the act of Janu
ary 14, 1875, will be promptly vetoed by
the President.”
Shoal is the Delaware.— Notice has
been given by the Light House Inspector
that a shoal spot about ten feet long and
ten feet wide, with about eighteen feet of
water upon it, has been found in the chan
nel of the Delaware river, between Ches
ter and Mareus Hook. It has been
marked with an obstruction buoy.
Affairs in Georgia.
Rev. John P. Lee, of Macon, celebrated
his silver Wedding on Monday.
Wiley Redding—however, we don’t
want to frighten the Atlanta police.
We must not slight Centennialism,
and therefore we beg to acknowledge the
reception of a pamphlet, written by Mr.
J. A. Stewart, of Atlanta, who seems
bent on bringing about an era of gush.
He has even gone so far as to compose
an enormous poem on the subject.
In Jones county, last week, a negro
man named Thomas Hare, concluded to
wallop his wife because she wouldn’t get
his breakfast. He had been shaving,
and, when she thought she had suffered
enough, she seized the razor and split
his stomach wide open. To be brief, she
made a seriously successful attempt to
part her Hare in the middle.
We are now engaged in betting that the
first rice bird that flies to Macon will hit
Reese, of the Macon Telegraph, in the
stomach, and we are furthermore wager
ing with the hotel men in this city that if
Colonel Jones, ot the same paper, hears
of it there will be a fight.
Oh, it doesn’t make any difference at
all, but we thought we’d just ask in pass>
ing if there bad * new nouc *-
tions urn
ieKlay. x
It is no uncommon sight to see an At
lanta man sailing across the street in his
night shirt to get his neighbor to help
catch a burglar, while his wife remains
in the house quietly mashing the robber’s
head with a brass-mounted andiron.
A Macon youth, who wants to belong
to a rifle team, thought he would go out
into the garden the other day and prac
tice the different styles of shooting. So
he got an old shot-gun, went out, laid
down on the ground and proceeded to
twist himself around the barrel, as he
had seen it in the pictures. Everything
being ready, he blazed away at a stack of
morning-glory vines. He heard a snort
and a scramble, and when he glanced up
and saw the old man galloping towards
him with a bean pole in his hands and
his coat-tails gone—when the young man
saw this, he knew he hadn’t hit the bull’s
eye.
A Middle Georgia man, very aged and
very pious, died the other day. Just be
fore he died, however, he called up his
son-in-law and gave him some parting
advice. “My son,” said he, “continue to
preach and raise sheep.”
A portion of the negroes of Laurens
county met in convention the other day
and denounced the efforts of those col
ored people who wanted them to band
together in order to get up a war of races.
But if the insurrection was merely a
bugaboo got up by the Democrats, as
some of the Radical papers say, why
should the negroes meet in convention
and denounce it ? They evidently knew
what they were talking about.
The last issue of the Jasper County
Banner —a half sheet —was set up by the
wife of the editor, and it was her first
attempt, too. She devoted a good por
tion of her time, also, in nursing her
husband, who is sick.
Mr. W. G. Solomon, of Gordon, was
knocked from the track by a passing train
one night last week, and his right ankle
crushed so severely that the foot had to
be amputated.
Heaven help the young people. They
will never cease tampering with fire-arms.
On Sunday afternoon in Macon, Miss
Sallie Anderson, daughter of Hon. Clif
ford Anderson, was severely wounded in
the left cheek by a ball from a pistol in
the hands of her cousin, Harry Anderson.
The ball cannot be found, but no danger
ous results are apprehended.
The colored convention held at
SandersviHe the other day for the pur
pose of discussing tho propriety of emi
grating to the colored cemeteries of the
West was well attended, but few (if any)
of those who made themselves heard on
the subject favored the idea, aud the pro
bability is that none will go except those
who can well be spared.
A special to the Augusta Chronicle,
from Atlanta, states that the notorious
Joe Morris, the leader in the late insur
rectionary movement in Burke, Wash
ington, Johnson, and other counties of
Georgia, was arrested in that city last
night by Detective Murphy.
Both the Athens papers, the Watch
man and the Georgian, have recently ap
peared in new outfits. They are now
among the best and neatest weeklies in
the South. The Georgian will soon
appear as a daily.
We have received from Messrs. James
P. Harrison & Cos., of the Franklin Print
ing House, several specimens of their
book and pamphlet printing, and they
are superior to any we have seen in many
a day.
“Why,” asks the Milledgeville Union ,
“can't the people elect their Judges?”
If it is Superior Court Judges you are al
luding to the answer is plain. In Geor
gia there are several districts where the
vicious elements preponderate, and they
would assuredly elect men to suit their
own views. As long as we have a good
Democratic Governor the appointment
plan is the best.
The Augusta Chronicle says: A few
days since we chronicled the consolida
tion of the Nashville Union and Ameri
can and Nashville Banner. The tele
graph informed us Saturday night that
the Savannah News and Advertiser
had been consolidated, the consolidation
leaving the largest city in the State with
but one daily paper. We have no doubt
that Mr. Estili will give the people of
Southern Georgia a better paper for less
money than they have ever had before.
We wish him the success which his ex
cellent paper so abundantly deserves.
Charleston, Savannah, Macon and Nash
ville have now but one paper each,
which receives a handsome support and
which is a first-class publication.
Social study from the Macon Tele
graph ; A rather unusual occurrence took
place on a street of Macon Sunday night.
A young gentleman was quietly walking
along homeward, smoking a segar, wholly
unapprehensive of any impending dan
ger. He saw not far ahead a lady coming
towards him, and, with customary polite
ness, he gave her the sidewalk to pass.
Instead of passing, however, she halted
in front of him and rudely slapped
him in the face, and then began
to claw him at a lively rate. “My
dear madam," began the unhappy young
man, but, without giving him time to
proceed, the lady commenced: “Don’t
dear madam me. Here you’ve been out
to this time cf the night, and all the
children sick at home.” About this time
the lady discovered that she had made a
mistake, thinking our young friend—who
is a bachelor— was her husband, and
bolted for the nearest house. The affair
has banished all thoughts of matrimony
from the head of the assailed party,
Irwinton Southerner: Mr. M. O. Mc-
Mullen, an ingenious mechanic, who has
had considerable experience in the con
struction of machinery for water mills,
is now building a mill for Mr. T. Jeff.
Jordan, of this (Wilkinson) county, on a
principle never before employed in the
propulsion of water wheels. The stream
upon which the mill is being constructed
is a spring branch, and the wheel is an
overshot, 25 feet in diameter. Attached
to the machinery of the mijl is a pow
erful pump, capable of lifting and con
ducting to the pond the greater quan
tity of the water used in propelling
the wheeL Mr. McMullen is so well sat
isfied, from tests, that it will prove a
success that he has agreed to forfeit all
demands upon Mr. Jordan for the con
struction of the mill if it should not
work successfully. And if it does work
successfully it will revolutionize the mill
system of the country. Every mountain
spring >ijl be employed in turning a
mill, and as it yrorks the same water
over and over again, some speculative
spirit will no doubt try to employ the
principle in running a mill, depending
upon carrying his vate* to a tank by
hand. We shall watch the construction
of this mill with considerable interest,
and report results to our readers. It is
of more practical importance than
Eeely’s motor.
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1875.
Mrs. James T. Thweatt, of Columbus,
is dead.
The colored people of Columbus, sire
in a big state of revival.
Mr. Isaac Kubitshek, formerly of
Thomasville, died in Germany recently.
A Thomas county hunter shot at a bird
and wounded a Mallard—a Mr. Si Mai
lard.
Every Saturday, of Milledgeville. is to
be rechristened The Spirit of the South,
Bnd improved in all departments.
The papers show symptoms of dis
cussing the fence question. The Irwin
ton Southerner has a thoughtful article
on the subject.
Two colored sisters at a recent religi
ous revival in Atlanta butted each
other in the stomach until there was
no breath in their bodies and no preach
ing in the church.
A young man in Augusta forged his
father’s name to an order for a suit of
clothes the other day, and the old man
turned him over to the law. Ha returned
the duds, and was not prosecuted.
A mining company ia Lumpkin county
are constructing * bo jut- for the purpum*
oi Lo-sting the bottom of Its f'.ver on
tieUP 'and sep&adrag loe’ sold from the
mud. _- '
The Christian Index says: “We are
very glad to hear through the Associated
Press dispatches that Mr. Estili has pur
chased the Savannah Daily Advertiser,
and will consolidate that paper with the
Mobning News. This will give Savan
nah a daily which any city in the United
States would be proud of. It will be
metropolitan in the best sense of that
term. With the erudite and polished
Thompson at the editorial helm, assisted
by the brilliant and witty Harris, and a
select corps of other writers and corres
pondents, with unlimited means, a com
plete establishment, and a splendid field
for operation, the News has a fortune of
extraordinary brilliancy before it.”
The Rome Courier remarks : Mr. J. 11.
Estili has purchased the Advertiser and
will hereafter furnish the patrons of that
paper with the News. This now leaves
but one paper in Savannah, which will
doubtless be greatly improved. The
News has always been one of our best
Southern newspapers as well as the most
prosperous of our Georgia journals. Mr.
Estili and the entire editorial corps of
the News are all practical newspaper
men—all “trained journalists,” if you
please, having been brought up to the
business through all its grades. They
get up a solid but newsy paper, discuss
public questions ably, and indulge in no
clap-trap sensations and are modest in
their pretensions. Hence the News is
always reliable and ever influential,
wielding a solid power over the State.
We congratulate all hands, the Savannah
people and Georgians generally, upon
this stroke of good policy in having only
one splendid paper in Savannah.
Thus the Thomasville Enterprise : The
Savannah Advertiser of the 19th instant
contained the announcement that the
proprietor, ;Mr. George N. Nichols, had
sold out his interest in the journal to Mr.
J . H. Estili, of the Mobning News. Mr.
Nichols says the Advertiser was a “profit
less enterprise, and by its sale to Mr.
Estili the latter will be the better sus
tained in his well directed efforts to give
the city and State a daily journal worthy
of the public confidence and support.”
The Advertiser was a good paper, and run
at a sacrifice of time and money, as the
proprietor declares, possessed a wonder
ful amount of vivacity and vitality. As
the News has swallowed it, that large
daily will probably bo still more distend
ed, and feel the stronger and more inde
pendent as it roams the field witiuxamr
rival or competitor. Success to the
glossypgrowing, glorious old News.
Atlanta Constitution : “’Pears ter me,
Pete,” remarked Si, as the two stood in
front of the shoo dividing a nickel’s
worth of tobacco, “’pears ter me dat de bot
tom rail is ndin’ de fence now ! ’Tain’t
like t’ings used to wuz when Bullick and
all de udder ’Publikins was shassayin’
round hyar!” “I wuz pesterin’ of
myself las’ nite ’bout dat, too,
Pete ! De nigger isn’t sich a big elem
phint in de p’literkill sicherwashun, fur
a fack !” “ Yaas; de dimmycrats is
scoopin’ up de ’publickins all de time
now an’ it’s ’bout time for de niggers to
change kyars, kase de ole train is gittin’
swiched off onde side track to stay dar !”
“I t’ink so, too ; kase dere isn’t but one
squad o’ radikils in offis now —dem’s de
not’ry ’publikins—an’ I’m t’inking dat
dey bab to take down dere tin sines ar
ter de next ’leeshun !” “ Looks mought
ly dat way !” said Si., as he wandered off
with a doleful “So long.”
Thomasville Enterprise: There are now
five or six Granges in Thomas county,
and although they made slow progress at
first, they now number in their ranks a
very large majority of the best farmers
and most intelligent men of the county.
They have now acquired sufficient power
to set all opposition at defiance, and have
begun in earnest, to take' their affairs into
their own hands. Eschewing politics and
devoting themselves to economy, industry
and the intelligent cultivation of the soil,
they design to keep out of the hands
of shrewd tradesmen and recuperate
their broken fortunes. With this
view they are about to set up a co-opera
tive warehouse or store in Thomasville,
with Judge James T. Hayes, a most re
liable and worthy citizen, at its head.
From him we learn that the Grangers
will not rent and open the large store un
der the Masonic Hall, as heretofore an
nounced, but arrangements have been
made to occupy with Messrs, Hardaway,
McKinnon & Cos., who have ample room
in their large brick store, with wooden
warehouse attached. We are not
sufficiently acquainted with the prin
ciples of their orgmizations to
enter into the details of their
objects and designs, but it is patent
that while they propose to make war on
nobody, they have, nevertheless, deter
mined to pay no exhorbitant profits to
middle men, and will therefore trade di
rect with importers and manufacturers.
This one item of economy will probably
save to the pockets of the farmerp of the
county about $200,000 per annum. Be
side, we believe it is one of the precepts
of the Granger to get out of debt and
then stay out. If so he is on the
right track, and if they all put it in prac
tice, we shall have, in two or three years,
the most happy, prosperous and indepen
dent set of farmers this or any other
country ever beheld. Then the planter
will not have to ask the merchant “how
much will you give me for my cotton ?”
The boot will get upon the other foot,
and the buyer will have to ask the plan
ter, “what will you take for your cotton?”
There is nothing like independence to
give a man good digestion and vim, and
freedom from debt’ with agricultural
prosperity are splendid promoters of it.
The Warrenton Clipper has this to say
of one of the most genial and unassuming
as weli as one cf the ablest of Georgia
journalists : “To read the leading edi
torials in the Augusta Chronicle, and then
incidentally meet the editor, Gregg
Wright, you would never suspicion him
of erecting any such high columns of solid
chunks of wisdom, but nevertheless he
does it. Extremely modest and unas
suming—in fact, almost coldly distant,
looking a very boy, still he has inside his
blonde head a whole bonanza of sound,
hard sense, and can say it in a way that
appeals to yoi;r reasqn at once. He was
once a lawyer, but found he was devejop
! ing parts too fast in “ways that were dark
and tricks that were vain,” and by a tre
mendous effort, assisted by the force of
early religious training, broke off from
it and went to a more virtuous calling.”
Columbus Enquirer: Some think the
! cotton crop can be determined by betting.
The farmers are going to lose heavily if
i they continue to wager as some of their
brethren do. Thus, one bet a. shipper
the other day $lO0 —and the money is
I now in bank —that the crop would not be
larger than last year. One bet, two months
ago, that the crop would ngt exceed
three and a half million bales, and the
Columbus receipts 55,000. All were
quickly taken by shippers, and they feel
they have that much money in their
pockets. %
The Augusta Constitutionalist thinks
that the Mobning News is not apt to be
improved now that it has no competitor.
Well, as to that, we shall see when we get
the decks cleared, and when we are once
I comfortably settled in our new building.
( As to competition, we never did look
upon the Advertiser as a rival, and were
not at all eager to absorb it.
The officers of the Atlantic and Gulf
Road propose to push forward the inter
ests of the Thomasville Fair in every
conceivable way.
| You wouldn’t think they had any good
jfrintere at. ay up in Gilmer county, but
tie Ellijay Courier is a model of neat
typography, and is well edited besides.
JTie Fort Valley Mirror will shortly be
terially enl irged. The editor and pro
etor, Mr. W. T. Christopher, learned
set type in his own office, and from a
y insignificant affair has brought the
r ror up to a very high standard of ex
ence. We trust he will have that suc
cess to which his pluck and energy enti
tlf him.
•Little Jessie,” daughter of Mr. J. B.
Fefdey, o: Americas, is dead. t
'-'’The! Atlanta Constitution alludes to
Colonel It. E. Lester, of this city, as
“tho Chesterfield of the Georgia Senate.”
This will take the Colonel by surprise.
A fatal colored stabbing affray occurred
in Talbot county. Henry Gholsten was
the engraver.
Somebody mentions the Hon. John J.
Floyd, of Newton county, as good mate
rial our of which to make a candidate for
Governor.
The Southron intimates that seventeen
hundred thousand chickens have been
offered for sale in that city during the
past week.
Tho Atlanta Constitution has heard a
rumor to the effect that Miss McNeely,
the girl who was the immediate cause of
the suicide of Captain French, of Ameri
cus, has attempted to take her own life.
Little May Templeton, the wonderful
child actress, will perform in Columbus
this season.
Mr. Charles Preetorious, of Bulloch
county, has returned from Germany.
Hinesville has had a jail delivery.
A calf rode into Gainesville the other
day standing erect on the pilot of a loco
motive. He had been picked up about
half a mile out of town.
Another negro child was burned to
death the other day in Griffin.
It is getting so in Middle Georgia that
they have to kill a negro before he can
be arrested.
The Hinesville Gazette says that Rice
boro is improving.
Alluding to the capture of Joe Morris,
the New York Herald says: “It is a
somewhat remarkable circumstance that
he should have been in communication
with the United States District Attorney
for several days prior to his capture, and
that a United States Judge should have
refused p?’ mission to the Sheriff to enter
a room in the court louse where the
criminal lay concealed. The almost in
variable sympathy manifested for negro
criminals in the South by Federal officials
would not seem to tend greatly toward
the promotion of the era of good feeling,
of which so much has been said of late.”
Why bless you, when a negro commits
larceny, arson, robbery, or murder he
runs to the nearest Federal official—that
is, if he is a knowing negro.
It is stated that the Atlanta Cotton
Factory has contracted for several years’
supply of coal at three dollars and a half
a ton, which, it is said, will enable the
mill to be run as cheaply as by water
i-pswer.
Thus the Covington Star : The issue
of the Savannah Advertiser of Sunday
last contains the announcement of its
late proprietor that that journal had been
purchased by Mr. J. H. Estili, of the
Mobning News, and would be consoli
dated with the News, and the publication
of the Advertiser cease from that
date. We are sorry to chronicle the
demise of our esteemed cotemporary,
as it was a favorite exchange, and we
know, its proprietor has struggled hard
against fate to build it up; but we con
gratulate Mr. Estili in thus securing such
an addition to his already large circula
tion. The Mobning News is unquestion
ably the best daily newspaper published
in the South, and is the peer of any
journal on this planet, It now comes to
us enlarged, and looking as bright as a
new dollar. It is always brim full of
news and interesting reading matter. We
think the subscribers of the Advertiser are
fortunate in falling into the hands of Mr.
Estili.
Macon Telegraph: Mr. E. D. Irvine
exhibited to us yesterday a small image
that was exhumed with an Egyptian
mummy some years before the war. The
image is the property of a lady of this
city whose husband once represented the
United States at Sardinia. It was pre
sented to her at Turin by a distinguished
Savan, whose translation of the hyro
glyphics upon it showed it to be more
than three thousand years of age. There
is no mistaking the Egyptian type of the
image. It is well preserved, and the
characters are sufficiently plain to be
easily deciphered by one who is skilled
in lore of that kind. We did not have
time to make a translation of it for this
issue of the paper.
Gainesville Southron: Colonel A. H.
Moore, o:* of the owners and business
manager of the Battle Branch Mines, is in
the city. He showed us a rich specimen
of the ore. He is crushing with eight
large stamps with entire success. He re
ports his works (one of the most elabor
ate and expensive) nearly all completed.
They include twenty-one miles of ditch,
a large dam, and two very expensive tun
nels. Ha expects to reach his vein with
the last one in a few days eighty feet be
low where they are working it now.
This will supercede the necessity of
pumping, as it drains the mines from be
low. No one not visiting the mines of
Upper Georgia has any conception of the
operations of the different companies.
■ —■ P ; —5
The Coaj, Tbahe. —Anthracite coal
production continues very full, and the
orders for coal light. Asa consequence
for this condition of the trade tflere is
sharp competition for the market, and
bickerings are already heard as to the
means to which some of the parties to
the coal combination to advance prices
of coal monthly resort to effect the
largest possible sales. It is manifest
that the stock of coal is now ahead of
the market, and unless there is a check
to the edrrent supply a fall in prices by
forced sales and otherwise is almost inev
itable. Indeed, there are alreafly com
plaints that some of the parties to the
coal combination are cutting under in
prices, and others have refused to curtail
production to the prescribed percentage
in such case made and provided. By
the last report the tonnage for the week
ending on the 11th instant was 582,365
tons, and for the year 12,923,020 tons
against 13,5?6,56<a tons to same time last
year, a decrease of 653,518 tons. The
bituminous tonnage for the week was
77,637 tODS, and for the year 2,532,180
tons, making a total of all kinds for the
week of 660,002, and for the year of
15,455,200 tons, against 16,630,409 tons
to the same time last year, a decrease of
1,175,209 tons. — Philadelphia Lodger.
Tubtle-ology.— Mr. M. A. Parsons
I and his son Everett some time in the
j spring captured a turtle which contained
| fifty-fo- x eggs. These eggs were care
; fully buried in the sand, in a secure spot.
. and a few weeks ago hatched out fifty
; little turtles. These were placed in 'a
large tub, partly filled with water aad
mud. Every cool night the little ones
I bury themselves in the mud, but in the
; morning as soon as Master Everett ap
| pears with his minnows to feed them,
they promptly make their appearance
and eat with avidity.— Salisbury ( Md.)
Advertiser.
“Remember. Mrs. 8.,” said Bogus, in
a fluster one day, •* thai you are the
weaker vea.. u’ “Maybe so,” retorted
the lady; “ but I’ll not forget that the
weaker vessel may have the stronger
spirit ia it.”
Florida Affairs.
We have received the first number of
the Semi-Tropical, the new Florida
magazine. It is edited, apparently with
judgment and good taste, by ex-Govemor
Harrison Reed, and published by Charles
Blew, Jacksonville. Its contents are
varied and interesting, and its tywgkj
graphy refreshingly beautiful. Its silr
senption price is three dollars a ,r
Oh Golly is the scheme now. Glee
son will sell out if the papers don’t let
him alone.
It is thought that probably old man
Beecher will pitch feis Plymouth ten Vin
Florida a little while this season.
The Femandina Observer has taken the
advice of the Press, and allowed the gory
shirt to fall into desuetude.
One of the more recent phenomena in
the neighborhood of St. Augustine, re
cently, was a brilliant lunar rainbow.
Old Uncle Solon Robinson has a poem
in ihe Semi-Tropical.
The evidence addntap in the case of
Mr. Harney -Rif -xd, ?3bSUI t. ihe
murder Sens ‘or/ dUpt.Mitihe*
The St. Augustine Press says there is
more money in lemons than in oranges,
and advises everybody in that section to
go to raising them.
The editor of the Agriculturist will
shortly tell the Duval Agricultural Socie
ty what he knows about “ Pickles.”
Mr. J. B C. Drew has resigned the
position of United States District Attor
ney for the Northern District of Florida.
The outrage of holding Mr. Harney
Richard for trial for the murder of Sena
tor Johnson becomes more apparent
every day. He has proved a positive
alibi so far as the identity of “the man
with the cream-colored mare” is con
cerned; but suppose he-had not, is there
any direct evidence going to show that
Johnson was murdered by the stranger
who was seen the day after ? Archibald
and his abettors will find that they have
overstepped the mark.
Monticello wants chickens and eggs.
There are over sixty pupils in attend -
ance at Jefferson Academy in Monti
cello.
The Constitution states that upon one
plantation in Jefferson county there are
one hundred and fifty bales of cotton
open in the field.
Monticello wants a fashionable dress
maker.
Mullet are plentiful in Jacksonville.
Some orange trees on Indian river
bloomed a little out of season, and the
consequence is that ripe oranges from
that section were offered for sale in Jack
sonville a few days ago.
Monticello has flattering prospects for
a heavy trade this fall. We trust they
may be realized.
Sanford is to have her new hotel after
all—at least a portion of it.
Mr. John B. Bailey, of Monticello, has
been admitted into the Naval Academy at
Annapolis, Maryland.
The Monticello Constitution Isays that
a gin house on the Bradley plantation, in
Jefferson county, was destroyed by fire
at 2 o’clock Sunday morning. There
were in the building about five or six
bales of cotton —the property of a hard
working, industrious colored man. It
was the work of an incendiary.
The St. Augustine Press has received
specimens of the Sicily lemon, raised
from the seed. They were grown in the
orange grove of Mr. Speisegger, about,
fourteen miles from that city, in wbat is
called tha Ferdinand (or Coxettei) Settle
ment, near the St. John’s river. The
trees are just six years old; they have
borne before, but are now loaded with a
profusion of fruit, and that of a more
delicious flavor and odor than the editor
has ever noticed in this fruit from else
where. He does not hesitate to say that
the West India lemons cannot compare
with them. The skin is thicker and
rougher, being filled with a much greater
quantity of oil, and much more fragrant,
consequently, this must render them bet
ter and safer for shipping. The skin be
ing thick and tough, enables them to
stand the pressure in packing better.
One great point is, that theyripeu in
September, and the whole crop could be
shipped North, not only a frost,
but before the season for lemonade and
punches was over.
The Constitution also has this:
“Everything appertaining to that popu
lar daily, the Advertiser , has been pur
chased by Colonel Estill, the enterprising
proprietor of the Moening News, and
the publication of the same discon
tinued. The Advertiser, under the
management of our friend Nichols, has
been a very interesting journal, and we
regret exceedingly the necessity that
forces it to retire from the journalistic
field. The patrons of the Advertiser,
however, will experience no loss or in
convenience, for its more successful
rival, the Mobning News, will be fur
nished them instead. The News is now
the only daily in the Forest City, and no
doubt this will continue to be the case
for some time, as it will require the ex
penditure of considerable money and the
exercise of extraordinary pluck to com
pete with the popular, go-ahead and en
ergetic Estill. And there is no necessity
for another daily in that city, as the
News supplies every demand—is a live,
progressive journal, and has an immense
circulation. Of course all the old friends
of the Advertiser will now rally to the
News, and we will not be surprised if
Estill is forced to issue a ‘ blanket
sheet.’ ”
Thus the Jacksonville Press ■ A
correspondent who lives near the dis
tinguished institution of learning
known as Oh Golly College, writes us as
follows: “General Vamum has quit
work on his private property, and is
working on a house said to be for a school
house. It is not on the lot set apart for
the college, though on land belonging 1 to
it. It will be completed in about five
years, unless they progress faster than
they have since commencing on it.
Only nine of the convicts have escaped
up to last week.” It will keep the
courts busy to supply workmen for
the use of the celebrated champion
pole-boatman and famous State archi
tect. One-third of his operatives
are already at liberty plundering
the citizens and keeping the whole
community in a constant state of appre
hension. We are informed that men
living in that vicinity feel a sense of in
security whenever compelled to leave
their families. This is a beautiful con
dition of affairs, and speaks volumes in
behalf of the skillful management and
vigilance of the Adjutant General.
There is no necessity Whatever for the
exercise of the pardoning power on the
part of His Excellency. This famous
College saves him all the trouble. Send
the convicts down to these classic re
treats —let them inhale the atmosphere
of that intellectual settlement and their
progress is so rapid and satisfactory
that they soon get through with the
entire curriculum of studies and graduate
with distinguished honors, to the credit
of their alma mater and the entire corps
of instructors. It is a most brilliant con
ception, that of the erection of • his col
lege in these remote wilds! The very
name of Gleason, the great original pro
jector, carries a stencn with its utterance.
They are a wonderous and remarkable
set, the Badical literati of the State of
Florida. For instance, Stearns, Hicks,
Gleason, Yarnum and several others. What
a galaxy of ability, what a conglomera
tion of renown: If there ever was an
atrocious humbug, an unmitigated fraud,
and a tissue of transparent self-aggran
dizement, these pictures w'ill be hung in
the gallery of Oh Golly College, as les
sons for the youth, to be hereafter edu
cated within those walls of learning.
There is no occasion for the State peni
tentiary. Prisoners escape'more rapidly
than they can be apprehended and con
victed. We sinoerely hope that the next
Legislature will take this entire iniquitous
scheme into consideration, and explode
the miserable and contemptible humbug
into ten thousand fragments,
The Political and Financial Revolu
lion in Jicw England.
[From an Occasional Correspondent of the
Morning News.] •
IflSfeosTON, Mass., Sept. 16. 1875.
iMMHBKrdy pine-tree voters of Maine.
WkNius, were charged with the responsi
bilßpimlfijfeßecial duty of reacting the
: FPMf t * iat h* B hceu progress
ia£& JHflpft twelve months or more.
In tfce fMa&t elections in Maine the Re
publicans seem to have furled their flag,
thrown down their arms, and care little
whether the school of Radical Republi
cans is kept or not.
The late election is a crushing blow to
Blaine, and to Morton, Dawes aud Hoar,
whoifi he called in council to help him
hold up anew the worn out bloody shirt.
Politicians with brains after the order
of Morton aid Blaine much mistake the
.coadiUoßjif the public mimT when they
out SSoss corienoy Issue mP
one side and governmental reform on the
other—to wave aloft the played out sham
of the bloody sbirt, the bugle tunes of
’67. The antagonisms of sections lose
all their vim when deprived of the stim
ulus of prosperity. But both Morton
and Blaine are in such a strong drag
after the Presidency that they can’t see
it. Very common brains quickly under
stand that nothing unifies a country so
quickly as poverty. Misery loves com
pany, and they herd together. The finan
cial tinkering of the Radical Republican
majority and of the Treasury Department,
has failed to satisfy the business wants of
the country. A panic, want of confidence
or faith, has spread consternation through
out the country, and the farmers,
mechanics and factory operatives, and
the forced idlers, hold the corrupt Radical
Republican party responsible for the
paralyzation of the business aud com
merce of the country.
What nonsense and supreme folly to
talk of “ Southern Banditti,” “ Southern
Barbarism,” with Northern sackings,
murders, child stealings, Mormonisms,
penitentiary lashing, “ cowhided aud he
worked well after,” “black cells,” Ac.,
Ac., going on daily before their very
eyes. The bloody shirt, Sherid&n
banditti and Southern barbarism,repeated
from the mouths of thieving carpet-bag
gers, is too thin for 1875. The people
can’t be humbugged any longer on this
question: too many thousands have
traveled South since the “unpleasant
ness,” and can and will judge for them
selves.
The fact is, the masses have dis
covered the constant plundering of the
NationaljTreasury and the State Treasuries
by short cuts of the thieves in Congress
and some of the “ departments.” They
believe this has had a great deal to do in
bringing about the present stagnation in
business, and it seems they intend to get
rid of these filching robbers, and that
shortly.
Let us look around, observe, consider.
We shall see that the restlessness that
now characterizes the popular vote is the
logical result of a dissatisfying, thieving,
robbing public service, and an abandon
ment of the true interests of the people,
which has brought about an entire
of confidence, in a great measure cam
the present stagnation in business j
the country is now present GJSTD,
singular spectacle ofli'rerormGonserva
tive party boldly taking up issues whicu
the Radical Republicans have not dared
to lift even for discussion. Therefore
hundreds of thousands have and will cast
their votes with the Conservative or
Democratic party that never did it be
fore, because of its more hopeful atti
tude for reform and renewal of business
and prosperity.
The issues now before the people are
in no sense those which the Republicans
put in the advance three years ago, but
they are such as have arisen from gen
eral and specific abuses of power then,
and since continued.
The Credit Mobilier; the lifting of
salaries ; the back pay grabs; the Pacific
mail steals; the thefts of the Interior
Department; the pilferings in mail con
tracts ; the skinnings in the navy yards;
the robberies here, there, and every
where where there was the least
chance; the demoralization of the civil
service; the subordination of patronage
and official influence to the private pur
poses of members of the Cabinet, tha
Senate, and the “so-called” Representa
tives these and much more ara
spread out, as they should be,
before the people daily. This
terrible panorama of defalcation, fraud
and crime, and its damaging conse
quences to business and tho general
prosperity, is an omnipresent reality, the
sight and feeling of which is in every
branch of business; and thus it is that ail
mere past party ties and policy is entire
ly ignored, excepting among the profes
sional politicians, the office holders and
their flunkeys. It is assumed to be the
cause of the “forced idleness” of a large
amount of the laboring people of the
North, and the seeming fright and hope
less lethargy of capital.
They do not need to be told that to get
back to good times, before ail other things,
it is absolutely essential that the govern
ment should be in the hands of those
who will not plunder it.
It is no “wild talk” now about reform.
The people have had enough of that
character of untruthfulness. It has
played out. The desire and thought for
reform is now firm and steadfast in the
minds of the farmers, the mechanics, the
miners, factory operatives, merchants,
clerks and “helps” of every kind and de
scription, and a sharp necessity iy knock
ing at the d°°r tq shape' it iijtc* action,
This power will make itself felt at the
polls by thousands and thousands of
votes against the party which has brought
about this state of things, and continue
to support and encourage it.
The Democratic party is traditionally
an anti-banlf party- (general Jackson’s
contest was with the United States bank,
and afterward with the State hanks,
which had been used for the purpose of
overthrowing the bank. He and his sup
porters denied the right of the govern
ment to delegate its power over the money
of the country to corporate institutions,
and demanded that the government alone
should issue money. He saw that
banks used their deposits &a the
basis of loans, and traded upon what
they owed, and he caused the deposits of
the government money to be removed
from them, as a means gf restricting
their power for evil, and succeeded in
laying ibe sure foundation for the estab
lishment of the sub-treasury, by which
the government should be wholly di
vorced from the banks. These were the
issues General Jackson made ; the gold
and silver question was purely incidental.
Everybody was for gold and silver before*
the promised redeemable, but suvrayti ir
redeemable papvi money issued by, in
many instances, irresponsible corpora,
tions. ' *
Undo* the exigencies of the North,
during the late “unpleasantness” between
the States, Congress, in the exercise of
its constitutional powers, ordained the
government greenback as money • and
the true historic position is, assertion
of the duty of the government
to exercise its prerogative over the
money of the country, and to sever the
government from all connection with
corporate banking, by asserting the sole
right of issuing all money. The green
back man of to-day represents the pure
Jackson Democracy of the past W-
<rvw •, —* —
The fine old Arkansas gentleman is be
ing deprived of bis nearest and dearest
rights. Because he landed a load of shot
in the person of a sheriff recently, who
was making some seizures, thereby com
polling that official to take his meals off
the mantle piece until he gets well, old
Colonel Thompson was fined fifty dollars
by an, insensate and heartless judge.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
LETTER FRO FLORIDA,
Rnilrond l.c*{ilnllon and Rnilrond Di
plomacy Ventilated.
Editor Morninq Ncm:
I propose to readers, many
of whom are citizens of Florida and di
rectly interested inUhe subject, the man
ner in which a bond ring was
started going last winter, and how it came
to grief, as well as principal bene
ficiaries; who they were and all about it.
I have referenoe to Mouse bill No. 133,
“To be entitled an act to alter and amend
an act entitled an act to perfect the pub
lic works of this State, approved June
24tb, IS#9, which act now Amended was
approved January 28th, 1870.”
I will state first, by way of starting,
that it appears strange to me how the
railroads in Florida can be denominated,
or named, or. called “public works,”
when they are of private in
rnmemm ‘lboesTe •&.•*
push a name should be applied to wo!,
things under the circumstances ? The
public part of the work is to pay taxes,
under the caption of Special and General
Interest and Sinking Funds, and fares
and freights. But to return to the bill:
By the first section the Jacksonville,
Pensacola and Mobile Railroad Company
was to be authorized to issue “coupon
bonds to the amount of fifteen thousand
dollars per mile for the whole line of
road and length of railroad owned by or
belonging to said company.”
This, had it become a law, would have
enabled that company to have issued
bonds to the amount of five millions two
hundred and ninety-five thousand dol
lars.
By the second section of the bill the
company was required to execute a deed
of trust, which deed was to be, to all in
tents and purposes, a first lien on the
property of the company—“ in Javor of
said bonds on said railroad."
Now, can any person see where the se
curity was, and what that security was
for, by the phraseology of this bill ? In
the first place it is a “mixed question”
whether or not the Jacksonville,Pensacola
and Mobile Railroad Company has any
thing that it can convey away by deed or
mortgage—it is not settled that it has.
And that, if it had, how could it be said
that this law would be giving the holder
of the bonds any security ?
Two millions five hundred thousand
dollars of the bonds were to be placed in
the hands of Augustus E. Maxwell, W.
D. Barnes and Chandler H. Smith, as
trustees, by whom the proceeds were to
be applied to the completion of the road
from Chattahoochee to the west boundary
line of the State. There was nothing said as
to the disposition to be made of the re
maining two million seven hundred and
ninety-five thousand dollars of bonds
the company were empowered to issue
by the terms of this bill. This balance
may have been intended as a sort of
secret fund, to be added and divided in
silence.
The bill was lobbied by Messrs. Yulee,
Littlefield and Baker, which last is Yulee’s
attorney. These gentlemen were present
and succeeded in getting the measure
through the House, but its grave had
been dug in the Senate, and when it
that body it was slipped into it
b.urietr.. There can be no legitimate
rejection to t&ese gentlemen building as
Wany miles of .
p — t ,cr i,o build, T7CT u wemu look i
better for them to do their work with
their own money. The people of Florida
have, sinoe|the occurrences named herein,
decided by vote that henceforth railroads
must be built in Florida without State
aid, and what will Yulee and Littlefield
do now ? Well, I have an opinion and
may as well tell it: These gentlemen will
do their best to prevent anybody else
from doing what they are unable to do.
They will pluy the part of Billy Bowlegs
now to perfection, and like that in
dividual, endeavor to keep things as they
are until it shall please an allwise Provi
dence to move them out of the way.
Yours, X,
“In the Days We Went a Gipsying.”
Avery large proportion of the freight
of all minds, of registered tonnage, is ex
perience. In the course of time the ac
cumulation is so great that but little
stowage room is left for anything else.
While not a very profitable market com
modity, though always figuring exten
sively in “the quotations,” it is ever on
hand to meet any immediate domestic
emergency, amply endorsed with the
recommendation that it is genuine and
has tbo n,go. Ifc’o ehiaf staple consists of
refreshing reminiscences and gentle re
minders; it promotes conservatism and in
culcates caution; it carries the mind back
to the good old times, and if the atmosphere
is propitious, by a very natural association
of ideas to old wines and their accom
paniments, awakening emotions that an
unfeeling world is ever attempting to
stifle. The old words, antiquas bias, are
suggested to the classic mind, and mem
ory holds up to its vision mirages with
measureless processions of two-horse
wagons, corduroy roads, stage horns and
monthly mails. In those primitive days
a man was not shooked at his breakfast
by such telegraphic explosions as:
“London —Your banker failed to day;
you may get a dividend of five per cent,
on your deposit of £20,000.” He bad
then, on the average, forty-five days
of blissful ignorance and prospective in
dependence ; the news came mellowed
by time and mollified by several pages of
encouragement, sympathy and '“Faith
fully Y’rs,” which, in relaxing gently the
nerves, prolonged life. The man of ex-
delicate sensibilities was not
startled by the “carrier’s” quick, sharp
double ring at the door bell, and the
thrusting of a letter with an, under
taker’s border under his door be
fore he knew that the lightning mail
train pad arrived. Then the stage man,
with proper precaution against all
surprises, whilst yet in dreamy
distance, aqd before awakening bis team
to three and a half miles per hour, lifted
up his horn cm high and blew in dulcet
notes, “I'm a coming.” Incalculable do
mestic infelicity was avoided by this
time-honored usage of antiquitv. Now,
before the sound of the locomotive whis
tle reaches yon, f*om one side the train
is out of sight on the other, and the
young smile on the lips of th& beauty
who sits at the coach window, which you
are convulsively trying to centre upon
yourself, bas left a line spun out bv the
speed to the dimensions of a sky rocket’s
train. Then a little printed promise of
Winter, or old man Nhultz of precious
meipoxy, slipped into the driver’s hand,
and his lips moistened with a thimble-full
of “Old Monongahela” (so “old Irbv”
used to call it thirty-five years ago; would
give_ you the history of every' passen
now the lo.vefy heiress with the paste
ring to the “unquestionable" pal of
Hines, the horse freebooter.
The indulgence in such reflections is
only the rendering of that homage which
is due to age and the glory of the “former
days.” As the first snow of wintry age
falls upon our heada, we feel our growing
importance, amuse ourselves in taking
s,tOvk, and overwhelm our young friends
with our liberality. The doors of our
store-houses are tree an the sunny, though
we are forced often to mourn over the
folly oi the world in its want of a proper
appreciation of our generosity.
Those comforting expressions, “ that
reminds me of,” “I remember,’’ “ when
I wax about your age,” “some forty years
ago when I, ’ etc., all of most happy sig
nificance, give us the assurance that as
history is reacting, repeating itself con
stantly, we have only to be reckless of
the fate of Lot’s wife, look to the rear,
and march steady to the front.
Judge Gibson’s pleasant recollections
of the good old days, of every circuit
fox itself, and the interchange of judicial
venue, drew out this vision, which I
spread on paper, if it never sees print.
The Magpie as a Bird.
JAdtsoNv iiiiiE, September 22, 1876.
The absorbing topic of discussion for
the past week has been the recent judi
cial mummery, termed by an unaccount
able courtesy the “trial” of Harney Rich
ard for the murder of E. G. Johnson,
self-constituted Senator. If the Radical
idiots fail to awaken to the fact that they
have, in this stupendous prostitution of
the courts for partisan purposes, com
mitted an egregious and irretrievable
blunder, then the indications point in
precisely the wrong direction, and Helio
gabolus got drunk in aficient times in
vain.
It may not be uninteresting or unin
structive to trace the devious wind
ings and contortions of this serio-comic
undertaking from its very incep
tion to its unprecedentedly farcical
denouement. Let us consider, primarily,
that the reward of two thousand dollars*
offered ostensibly for the real murderer,
but in reality for an unfortunate victim,
is, as Solon Shingle sententiously observes
of fifty dollars, “ a big heap of money”
in the eyes of the unprincipled adven
turers who rule this blessed State. Why,
my dear Sempronius, what is the assassin
to us or we to him ? But two thousand
dollars, my dear sir, is quite a different
thing. The amount arouses cupidity, it
excites turpitude, it renders the indiffer
ent loiterer as energetic as a professional
acrobat. It is a sufficient sum, in a coun
try where negio evidence can be suborned
at the rate of twenty-five cents for an
unlimited quantity, to secure the convic
£’“ SLf&SS; .^SsSSi&fS**
profit, asm front gram ue*rtutra^i'l|
of fixing this erinv
party. So the Radical Sanhedrim held a
consultation and unanimously resolved to
find a man—not a very arduous or dan
gerous venture thus far—and the lot,
after much unseemly hesitation, fell
upon Mr. Harney Richard. Ho happened
to be possessed of a cream-colored mare,
and was, moreover, thanks to the gods, a
Democrat, with Democratic connections.
The Deputy United States Marshal, to
whom had been entrusted the dirty work
of fabricating the evidence and finding
the man, proceeds to Alachua county,
apprehends Mr. Richard upon a warrant
issued out of a United States Commis
sioner’s Court, [who made the affidavits?
was it McMurray?] on a charge of retail
ing tobacco without the license required
by law, notwithstanding the fact
that Mr. Richard never sold a
pound of tobacco during his mortal
pilgrimage. McMurray prostitutes the
seal of the United States Court, with the
connivance of its legal custodians, prob
ably, in ortler to get Mr. Richard within
tho jurisdiction of the Judge of this cir
euit, and when it is accomplished the ac
cused is gravely informed that all the pre
ceding transactions were but a clever
blind, and that he is in custody under a
charge of murder.
The prisoner is brought to the city in
irons, is kept in irons for several nays
while the manufactured witnesses, undor
the manipulation of Mr. McMurray aro
strengthened in their tuition by the exhi
bition of the cream-colored mare and the
prisoner, whom of course they recognize
without the least hesitancy.
Now, as 1 am informed on creditable
authority, it became uecessary to preju
dice the prisoner’s case and map out the
line of conduct to be adhered to in the
preliminary investigation. Accordingly
the Radical junta convened in secrot ses
sion, at which were congregated “Jedge”
Archibald, T. A. McDonald, State At
torney, J. P. C. Emmons, associate coun
sel for the State, Thos. McMurray, Dep
uty United States Marshal, and others
equally determined, but not so intimately
connected with the developments. I
have every reason to believe that the con
spirators arrived at the conclusion to re
tain their hold upon the prisoner, bo the
evidence whut it might, and I understand
further that J. P. C. Emmons was paid a
douceur of five hundred dollars by a
United States Government check, through
t; “ Un.tcd StDtea Marshal for tho Jkknlh
erfl District of Florida. The Marshal
doubtless expected to be reimbursed from
tne two thousand collars
“Prove an alibi 1” saitli Judge Chunky;
■I 11 be damned if you do. Provo any
thing else, but you can’t come that on us.”
Ike examination was conducted with
every appearance of alamentablo mock
er y by Judge Archibald, acting as ex
omcio Justice of the Peace, aud the re -
suit has disappointed no one. Tlie evi
dence elicited for the prosecution way
not of sufficient gravity to justify a
magistrate in committing a prisoner for
larceny, and yet the Judge aped a sem
blanoe of erudition, a pitiable air of legal
wisdom.
A word about “Jedge” Archibald He
ls the most willing tool the Radical ring
owns, and his legal know-ledge it on a
par with the brains of Betsy Bunkums
cat. He delivered an extremely sinuous
opinion in rendering his decision to place
Mr. Richard undor bonds in the sum of
ten thousand dollars, and I throw out the.
suggestion advisedly that an amanuensis
wrote the “Jedge’s” extremely lucid
opinion for him bejore the conclusion of
the examination. Even the “Jedge’s”
worst enemy would not do him the in
justice to suppose that it emanated ,
from his prolific brain. I have
heard itbruited about on several occasions
that Judge Archibald, whom the carpet
. baggers provide for, because, to quote
their own words, they “have a use for
him”—who I believe would not be above
prostituting the ermine which he wears
with such ill grace, to subserve the in
terests of hia masters—l have heard it
said, I repeat, that this magnificent
puppet, this vague and uncertain intu
mescence, is an Irishman, and I
will here remark, that this imputation is
the hardest thing I ever knew to be said
of the Irish. But as Surgeon Surville
observes : “This problem of (scalawag)
life disgusts me.” Faugh!
Belvidbbe..
A Yobkshibe Village Game.— The
Kentish game referred to by Mr. Harlowe
was a popular one with the little boys
and girls at a dame’s school in the city of
Gloucester, which I attended about the
year he mentions (1820). As I was then
but four years old, and have not seer ifc
played since, I dare say I have forgotten
some of the lines, but my recollection of
it is that the children stood in a line, and
jjmy. an<tmrHdvanning towards” thauy,"
i the boy said :
“Here comes a noble knighi of Spain,
Courting to your daughter Jane.”
To which one of the girls replied :
“My daughter Jane is much too young
To hear your false and flattering tongue.”
To this the juvenile knight replied ;
“lie she young, or he she old.
For a price she must be eold. n
Whereupon the lady mother, irate, re
joined :
“Turn hack, turn back, thou scornful knight,
And rub thy spurs, they are not bright.”
His knightly honor thus assailed, the boy
replied:
“My spms are bright and richly wrought,
For a price they were not bought.
Nor for a prico'shall they he gold,
Neither t or silver nor for gold,
And so good-bye, my lady gay,
For I must ride another way.”
And then, I think, there ensued some
kissing and changing of places, and a re
petition of the performance.—J. J. P,
in Londi/n Notes and (£uenes. )
m i
The advice of Attorney General Pierre
pont and the Hon. Fred. Douglass to the
Southern blacks to fight for their rights
is strikingly coincident and suggestive.
Will it be adopted ? Washington Repub
lican.
If the advice of Mr v Pierrepont is sug
gestive of force, your words are still more
suggestive of the animus with which they
are uttered. There are unfortunately too
many like yourself advising the excitable
and ignorant blacks to cross the dead
line, who are careful not to approach the
verge themselves. If they had no advice
from white people but to labor and eco
nomise and obey the laws and vote for
whom they please, there would be no oc
casion for fighting, either aggressively or
in self-defense. But the call of party
and the stimulus of the pap inspires your
soul to the willing sacrifice of all your
negro relations. Not a drop of blood
from your own precious carcass will be
shed in their defense. — Wasfdngton Ga
zette.
The enterprise of true journalism is
illustrsted by the case of the editor-of"
the Daily Index, published at Befvidere
Illinois, who, being horsewhipped, got
out an extra containing a full account of
the affair, and sold papers enough to pav
for the arnica and plasters.