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Savannah 3£eekhi Hew* w "ATI ttBAV, OCTUBKK 8, IS7*. cbi uirrios*. Weekly \r, Onr Vrnr #2 OO UeelUy MrWft, Mix | 00 Weekly New*, Three Mentha *0 Daily News, one year, *lO go; six moo tbs, •ft 'to ; three montii*, ** ft". Tri-W eekly News, one year, $0 00; six months, W "0; throe months, *1 no. ■All subacrtpUons payable in advance. Paper* otail are sto(>pod at the expiration of the time paid for without further notice. Hobscrihers will please observe the date* on their wrapper*. AOTKBTIHKNKNTR. A 9qi;AKK is ten measured lines of Nonpareil of The Wr.s.Kt.r News. h ins.Tt.ion, *1 00 per wjuare. Liberal raUn made with contract advertisers. COIUIEM'OMJEM E. ttorresponrlence solicited ; hot to receive atten tion, most be accompanied by a responsi hle name, not for publication, bnt as a guarantee of good faith. Ail letters should be addr.-ssed to •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.